Actions minutes rounded up per job and charged to the repository owner
Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited
- Kind
- Consumption
- Statement
- As published 2026-09-30: GitHub rounds the minutes and partial minutes each job uses up to the nearest whole minute (Actions runner pricing). Minutes are charged to the repository owner, not the person who triggered the workflow; standard GitHub-hosted runners are free in public repositories and self-hosted runners are free; larger runners are always charged (GitHub Actions billing).
- Applies when
- Workflow runs in private repositories.
- Applies to
- GitHub Actions (GitHub-hosted runners)
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