GitHub Actions price per minute: every runner, with examples
On a private repository, GitHub bills Actions by the minute and the price depends on the runner. These are the list prices from GitHub's runner pricing table (read 2026-10-12), with what they mean for real jobs. Standard runners are free in public repositories.
Price per minute by runner
| Runner | Per minute | Per 1,000 minutes | Minutes for $1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux 1-core (ubuntu-slim) | $0.002 | $2.00 | 500 |
| Linux 2-core (ubuntu-latest) | $0.006 | $6.00 | 166 |
| Linux arm64 | $0.005 | $5.00 | 200 |
| Windows 2-core (windows-latest) | $0.010 | $10.00 | 100 |
| macOS (macos-latest) | $0.062 | $62.00 | 16 |
What one job costs
Each job is rounded up to a whole minute, so a 20-second job is billed as 1 minute. Cost of one run of a job, by runner:
| Job | Linux 1-core | Linux 2-core | Linux arm64 | Windows 2-core | macOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a 2-minute lint job | $0.004 | $0.012 | $0.01 | $0.02 | $0.124 |
| a 6-minute test job | $0.012 | $0.036 | $0.03 | $0.06 | $0.372 |
| a 15-minute build | $0.03 | $0.09 | $0.075 | $0.15 | $0.93 |
What the free allowance buys
Private repositories include 2,000 minutes on Free, 3,000 minutes on Pro, 3,000 minutes on Team, 50,000 minutes on Enterprise Cloud a month. GitHub no longer prints per-OS multipliers, so converting the Free plan's 2,000 minutes at the price ratio (an estimate, not GitHub's statement) gives about:
- Linux 1-core (ubuntu-slim): about 6,000 minutes
- Linux 2-core (ubuntu-latest): about 2,000 minutes
- Linux arm64: about 2,400 minutes
- Windows 2-core (windows-latest): about 1,200 minutes
- macOS (macos-latest): about 193 minutes
Check the arithmetic on your own workflows
Matrices multiply these prices, schedules multiply the runs, and a missing timeout-minutes means up to 360 billed minutes when a job hangs. The free calculator applies this table to the YAML you paste, and this guide explains the four multipliers. Rates change; check GitHub's page for the current table before you budget.