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Actions minute multiplier reference

Reference information for calculating the cost of using different GitHub-hosted runners.

GitHub rounds the minutes and partial minutes each job uses up to the nearest whole minute.

Standard runners

Operating systemPer-minute rate (USD)
Linux 2-core$0.008
Windows 2-core$0.016
macOS 3-core or 4-core (M1 or Intel)$0.08

x64-powered larger runners

Operating systemPer-minute rate (USD)
Linux Advanced 2-core$0.008
Linux 4-core$0.016
Linux 8-core$0.032
Linux 16-core$0.064
Linux 32-core$0.128
Linux 64-core$0.256
Linux 96-core$0.384
Windows 4-core$0.032
Windows 8-core$0.064
Windows 16-core$0.128
Windows 32-core$0.256
Windows 64-core$0.512
Windows 96-core$0.768
macOS 12-core$0.12

arm64-powered larger runners

Operating systemPer-minute rate (USD)
Linux 2-core$0.005
Linux 4-core$0.01
Linux 8-core$0.02
Linux 16-core$0.04
Linux 32-core$0.08
Linux 64-core$0.16
Windows 2-core$0.01
Windows 4-core$0.02
Windows 8-core$0.04
Windows 16-core$0.08
Windows 32-core$0.16
Windows 64-core$0.32
macOS 6-core (M1)$0.16

GPU-powered larger runners

Operating systemPer-minute rate (USD)
Linux 4-core$0.07
Windows 4-core$0.14

Points to note about rates for runners

  • The number of jobs you can run concurrently across all repositories in your user or organization account depends on your GitHub plan. For more information, see Billing and usage for GitHub-hosted runners and Actions limits for self-hosted runner usage limits.
  • Larger runners are only available for organizations and enterprises using the GitHub Team or GitHub Enterprise Cloud plans.
  • Larger runners are only billed at the per-minute rate for the amount of time workflows are executed on them. There is no cost associated with creating a larger runner that is not being used by a workflow.
  • For larger runners, there is no additional cost for configurations that assign public static IP addresses to a larger runner. For more information on larger runners, see Larger runners.
  • Included minutes cannot be used for larger runners.
  • The larger runners are not free for public repositories.