CI/CD & Pipelines
CI/CD Pipeline Cost Calculator
Enter average job duration, jobs per run, and monthly run count to compute monthly GitHub Actions billing cost with runner type multipliers.
No data is transmitted — everything runs locallyTool
Example — 8-min job · 4 jobs/run · 500 runs/month · Linux
Total minutes/month
16,000
Billable minutes
14,000
Monthly cost ($)
112.00
About this tool
CI/CD Pipeline Cost Calculator
The CI/CD Pipeline Cost Calculator computes monthly GitHub Actions billing cost from job duration, runner type, and run frequency, with self-hosted runner comparison.
• Estimate GitHub Actions monthly cost before migrating from Jenkins
• Calculate the cost impact of switching from macOS to Linux runners
• Model cost savings from reducing average job duration by 30%
• Determine whether self-hosted runners are cost-effective at current scale
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FAQ
What does this tool tell you?
The CI/CD Pipeline Cost Calculator computes monthly GitHub Actions billing cost from job duration, runner type, and run frequency, with self-hosted runner comparison.
What affects the result most?
GitHub Actions billing: free for public repos; private repos: free 2000 min/month, then $0.008/min (Linux). macOS minutes: 10× multiplier ($0.08/min), Windows: 2× ($0.016/min) on GitHub-hosted runners. Total monthly cost = sum(job_duration × runner_type_multiplier × runs_per_month).
How should I use the result?
The calculation is deterministic — the same inputs always produce the same output — so the most useful workflow is to vary one input at a time and see which factor moves the result most. That tells you where to focus your attention before committing to a decision.
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