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.
Calculations run locally in your browserTool
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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