On January 1, 2026, GitHub will reduce the price of GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39% depending on the machine type used. The free usage minute quotas will remain the same.
On March 1, 2026, GitHub will introduce a new $0.002 per minute GitHub Actions cloud platform charge that will apply to self-hosted runner usage. Any usage subject to this charge will count toward the minutes included in your plan, as explained in our GitHub Actions billing documentation.
Runner usage in public repositories will remain free. There will be no changes in price structure for GitHub Enterprise Server customers.
We are increasing our investment into our self-hosted experience to ensure that we can provide autoscaling for scenarios beyond just Linux containers.
Historically, self-hosted runner customers were able to leverage much of GitHub Actions’ infrastructure and services at no cost.
Forgejo has been working wonders for me, highly recommend ^^
but the whole thing is self-hosted, not just the action runner, right?
Yeah, I believe so, sorry. I wonder if codeberg permits something like this?
Maybe. The problems I have with codeberg are the lack of support to private repos and the 100 repo limit. I have some personal stuff in version control that I prefer to keep private, like notes, dotfiles, and shell history.
At the same time, I’m not sure I want to maintain a self-hosted forge.
Forgejo has been really low maintenance for me. I update the docker image version every so often, and that’s about it.