Posted by coloneltcb 12/17/2025
"We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback.
1. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach.
2. We are continuing to reduce hosted-runners prices by up to 39% on January 1, 2026.
We have real costs"
^ theres more in the actual tweet, but the preview that gets unfurled on discord cuts off there. That last lines a killer, poor olde microsoft
Am i wrong or didn't they have a bug in the action runners that would basically cycle the CPU infinitely ?
> https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/2380
> https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792
Didn't they take years to fix this ? Or its unrelated ?
Updates to GitHub Actions pricing https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/182186
Maybe I don't understand something, but self-hosted GitHub Actions cost more resources than GitHub Actions hosted with them?
There might be some creative uses of GitHub Actions, it seemed that getting users into the platform was valuable.
https://www.slingacademy.com/article/git-post-receive-hook-a...
Another of my tricks is to tie in your containerization there too, system-nspawn is what I'm using at the moment, but it can apply to others.
Open to feedback or tips and tricks on this, but so far it's looking promising. Curious how other folks experience has been.