Posted by coloneltcb 12/17/2025
initial development and reactions:
Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
Charge a flat fee per Action, sure. There is a tiny cost on GitHub's part associated with the API calls for starting and stopping, but if my build takes 8 hours on a self-hosted runner there is no more cost to GitHub than it taking 10 seconds.
That's the whole point of self-hosted runners.
Maybe there was more outrage elsewhere, but I was frankly confused at the seeming lack thereof here on Hacker News.
I think they kinda fucked themselves 3 concrete ways (among the nerds which may not be a problem for them):
1) this whole thing
2) the infinite running jobs issues which called attention to how poorly managed the GHA system is
3) zig et al announcing their departure and all the positive conversation around that