GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions
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Re: GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions
#2"Postponing" means they will just do it later.
The writing is on the wall. Up to you if you wish to continue using and trusting Microsoft.
Re: GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions
#3This is the official message: https://x.com/github/status/2001372894882918548
"We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback.
"1. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach.
"2. We are continuing to reduce hosted-runners prices by up to 39% on January 1, 2026.
"We have real costs in running the Actions control plane. We are also making investments into self-hosted runners so they work at scale in customer environments, particularly for complex enterprise scenarios. While this context matters, we missed the mark with this change by not including more of you in our planning.
"We need to improve GitHub Actions. We’re taking more time to meet and listen closely to developers, customers, and partners to start. We’ve also opened a discussion to collect more direct feedback and will use that feedback to inform the GitHub Actions roadmap. We’re working hard to earn your trust through consistent delivery across GitHub Actions and the entire platform."
Re: GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions
#4Maybe update link to the post:
Updates to GitHub Actions pricing https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/182186
Re: GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions
#5Maybe update link to the post: Updates to GitHub Actions pricing https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/182186
Yeah, could we please stop treating twitter as the canonical source of company communications? There is always a blog post or in this case, a github discussion.
Re: GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions
#6Probably caused by enterprises going after them, my normally dead company-wide global devops chat had a few hundred messages yesterday because of this.
Re: GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions
#7Maybe update link to the post: Updates to GitHub Actions pricing https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/182186
That update is from an anonymous "Admin". The X link is directly from the (presumed?) head of GitHub.
Re: GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions
#8Maybe update link to the post: Updates to GitHub Actions pricing https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/182186
That update is from an anonymous "Admin". The X link is directly from the (presumed?) head of GitHub.
They've also updated the original resource page but a new url serves our purposes better https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-fo...
Re: GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions
#9"Postponing" means they will just do it later. The writing is on the wall. Up to you if you wish to continue using and trusting Microsoft.
"Postponing" means they will just do it later.
Re: GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions
#10> Although we gave away 11.5 billion build minutes (~$184 million) to support OSS last year
Interesting, I was trying to estimate how much they spent on free actions per year. I thought it would be around $100m. This is the first actual number I've seen.
I expect the $184 million figure is the sale price rather than the actual cost to GitHub, and given that competitors offer the same service for 3-10x less it's probably more like $80m overall I'd guess.
Still a pretty huge amount of money that I don't think any competitors can really hope to match.