If you want to use GitHub Actions beyond the storage or minutes included in your account, you will be billed for additional usage.
Note
The enhanced billing platform is available for:
Organization accounts created after November 13, 2024, on a GitHub Team plan
Personal accounts created after February 13, 2025 on a GitHub Free or GitHub Pro plan
The enhanced billing platform offers better spending control and detailed visibility to help you understand your usage with more granular controls. See Using the new billing platform.
Note that GitHub may apply a temporary authorization hold for the value of the usage-based costs in advance, which will appear as a pending charge in your account's payment method.
GitHub Actions usage is free for standard GitHub-hosted runners in public repositories, and for self-hosted runners. See Choosing the runner for a job. For private repositories, each GitHub account receives a certain amount of free minutes and storage for use with GitHub-hosted runners, depending on the account's plan. Any usage beyond the included amounts is controlled by spending limits.
If you are a monthly-billed customer, your account will have a default spending limit of 0 US dollars (USD), which prevents additional usage of minutes or storage for private repositories beyond the amounts included with your account. If you pay your account by invoice, your account will have an unlimited default spending limit. For more information, see About spending limits.
If you are an organization owner, you can connect an Azure Subscription ID to your organization account to enable and pay for GitHub Actions usage beyond the amounts included with your account. For more information, see Connecting an Azure subscription.
Minutes reset every month, while storage usage does not.
The storage used by a repository is the total storage used by GitHub Actions artifacts and GitHub Packages. Your storage cost is the total usage for all repositories owned by your account. For more information about pricing for GitHub Packages, see About billing for GitHub Packages.
If your account's usage surpasses these limits and you have set a spending limit above $0 USD, you will pay $0.008 USD per GB of storage per day and per-minute usage depending on the operating system used by the GitHub-hosted runner. GitHub rounds the minutes and partial minutes each job uses up to the nearest whole minute.
Jobs that run on Windows and macOS runners that GitHub hosts consume minutes at 2 and 10 times the rate that jobs on Linux runners consume. For example, using 1,000 Windows minutes would consume 2,000 of the minutes included in your account. Using 1,000 macOS minutes, would consume 10,000 minutes included in your account.
Minute multipliers do not apply to the per-minute rates shown below.
To estimate the costs for consumptive services, you can use the GitHub pricing calculator.
At the end of the month, GitHub calculates the cost of minutes and storage used over the amount included in your account.
For example, if your organization uses GitHub Team and allows unlimited spending, using 5,000 minutes could have a total storage and minute overage cost of $56 USD, depending on the operating systems used to run jobs.
GitHub calculates your storage usage for each month based on hourly usage during that month.
GitHub updates your storage space within a 6 to 12-hour window. If you delete artifacts, the available space will be reflected in your account during the next scheduled update.
For example, if you use 3 GB of storage for 10 days of March and 12 GB for 21 days of March, your storage usage would be:
At the end of the month, GitHub rounds your storage to the nearest MB. Therefore, your storage usage for March would be 9.097 GB.
Your GitHub Actions usage shares your account's existing billing date, payment method, and receipt. To view all the subscriptions for your account on GitHub, see Viewing your subscriptions and billing date.
If you are a monthly-billed customer, your account will have a default spending limit of 0 US dollars (USD), which prevents additional usage of minutes or storage for private repositories beyond the amounts included with your account. If you pay your account by invoice, your account will have an unlimited default spending limit.
If you have an unlimited spending limit or a spending limit set higher than $0 USD, you will be billed for any additional minutes or storage beyond the included amounts in your account, also called overages. GitHub charges usage to the account that owns the repository where a workflow is run. Any coupons on your account do not apply to GitHub Actions overages.
Overages are always billed monthly regardless of your billing term (even if your account is otherwise billed annually).
For information on managing and changing your account's spending limit, see Managing your spending limit for GitHub Actions.
If your account has outstanding unpaid charges: