specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: GitHub Actions
providerId: github-actions
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-17'
generated: '2026-09-17'
method: searched
source:
  - https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/github-actions
  - https://github.com/pricing
tags:
  - CI/CD
  - Metered Billing
  - Usage-Based
description: >-
  Published GitHub Actions plans and pricing, read from GitHub's own billing
  documentation and pricing page on 2026-09-17. REPLACES A SCAFFOLD: until this
  round this file carried invented placeholder tiers (a "Free" tier of 1,000
  API requests/month at 10 requests/minute, a "Professional" tier priced TBD)
  that GitHub has never published and that bear no relationship to how Actions
  is sold. Actions is not priced per API request at all — the REST API is free
  to call within the standard GitHub rate limits, and what is metered is
  COMPUTE (runner minutes) and STORAGE (artifacts, caches, custom images).
pricing_model: >-
  Included allowance per GitHub plan, then usage-based overage. Standard
  GitHub-hosted runners are free for public repositories, for GitHub Pages and
  for Dependabot; larger runners are always charged, even on public
  repositories. Minutes reset to the full allowance at the start of each
  billing cycle; storage accrues hourly in GB-Hours.
plan_count: 5
plans:
  - id: github-free
    name: GitHub Free
    type: freemium
    price: '0.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: month
    description: Free plan for individuals. Actions allowances apply to private repositories; public repositories run free on standard runners.
    entries:
      - label: Actions minutes
        name: actions_minutes
        type: quota
        metric: minutes
        limit: 2000
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
      - label: Artifact storage (shared with GitHub Packages)
        name: artifact_storage
        type: quota
        metric: megabytes
        limit: 500
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
      - label: Cache storage (per repository)
        name: cache_storage
        type: quota
        metric: gigabytes
        limit: 10
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
    elements:
      - name: Custom image storage
        value: not applicable
  - id: github-pro
    name: GitHub Pro
    type: paid
    price: '4.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: month
    price_note: >-
      Listed by GitHub as a personal plan; the $4/month figure is the
      individual Pro price. The public pricing grid at github.com/pricing shows
      Free, Team and Enterprise only, so this price is recorded from GitHub's
      plan documentation rather than that grid.
    entries:
      - label: Actions minutes
        name: actions_minutes
        type: quota
        metric: minutes
        limit: 3000
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
      - label: Artifact storage (shared with GitHub Packages)
        name: artifact_storage
        type: quota
        metric: gigabytes
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
      - label: Cache storage (per repository)
        name: cache_storage
        type: quota
        metric: gigabytes
        limit: 10
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
    elements:
      - name: Custom image storage
        value: not applicable
  - id: github-free-organizations
    name: GitHub Free for organizations
    type: freemium
    price: '0.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: month
    entries:
      - label: Actions minutes
        name: actions_minutes
        type: quota
        metric: minutes
        limit: 2000
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
      - label: Artifact storage (shared with GitHub Packages)
        name: artifact_storage
        type: quota
        metric: megabytes
        limit: 500
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
      - label: Cache storage (per repository)
        name: cache_storage
        type: quota
        metric: gigabytes
        limit: 10
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
    elements:
      - name: Custom image storage
        value: not applicable
  - id: github-team
    name: GitHub Team
    type: paid
    price: '4.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: month
    price_unit: per user/month
    price_note: Introductory rate is $4 USD per user/month for the first 12 months, per github.com/pricing.
    entries:
      - label: Actions minutes
        name: actions_minutes
        type: quota
        metric: minutes
        limit: 3000
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
      - label: Artifact storage (shared with GitHub Packages)
        name: artifact_storage
        type: quota
        metric: gigabytes
        limit: 2
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
      - label: Cache storage (per repository)
        name: cache_storage
        type: quota
        metric: gigabytes
        limit: 10
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
      - label: Custom image storage
        name: custom_image_storage
        type: quota
        metric: gigabytes
        limit: 75
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
  - id: github-enterprise-cloud
    name: GitHub Enterprise Cloud
    type: enterprise
    price: '21.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: month
    price_unit: per user/month
    entries:
      - label: Actions minutes
        name: actions_minutes
        type: quota
        metric: minutes
        limit: 50000
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
      - label: Artifact storage (shared with GitHub Packages)
        name: artifact_storage
        type: quota
        metric: gigabytes
        limit: 50
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
      - label: Cache storage (per repository)
        name: cache_storage
        type: quota
        metric: gigabytes
        limit: 10
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
      - label: Custom image storage
        name: custom_image_storage
        type: quota
        metric: gigabytes
        limit: 150
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
    elements:
      - name: Higher REST API rate limit
        value: 15,000 requests/hour for GitHub Apps and OAuth apps owned by the organization
overage:
  minutes:
    unit: per minute
    currency: USD
    source: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/github-actions
    rates:
      - {runner: Linux 1-core (x64), sku: actions_linux_slim, price: '0.002'}
      - {runner: Linux 2-core (x64), sku: actions_linux, price: '0.006'}
      - {runner: Linux 2-core (arm64), sku: actions_linux_arm, price: '0.005'}
      - {runner: Windows 2-core (x64), sku: actions_windows, price: '0.010'}
      - {runner: Windows 2-core (arm64), sku: actions_windows_arm, price: '0.010'}
      - {runner: macOS 3-core or 4-core (M1 or Intel), sku: actions_macos, price: '0.062'}
    note: Larger runners carry their own rates; see the Actions runner pricing page.
  storage:
    unit: per GB/month
    currency: USD
    rates:
      - {type: Shared storage (artifacts and GitHub Packages), price: '0.25'}
      - {type: Actions cache, price: '0.07'}
      - {type: Custom image storage, price: '0.07'}
    note: >-
      Storage accrues hourly in GB-Hours. Deleting an artifact stops future
      accrual but does not remove storage already accrued in the current cycle
      — the same one-way property recorded in the reversibility block of
      conventions/github-actions-conventions.yml.
free_use:
  - Public repositories using standard GitHub-hosted runners
  - Self-hosted runners (no minute charge; you supply the machine)
  - GitHub Pages builds
  - Dependabot
budget_controls:
  blocked_without_payment_method: true
  budgets: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/tutorials/set-up-budgets
  alerts: Email notification at 90% and 100% of included usage in a billing period
maintainers:
  - type: GitHub
    name: GitHub, Inc.
    url: https://github.com
    email: support@github.com
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com