GitHub Actions / GitHub Free, 2,000 free minutes per month
GitHub Actions / GitHub Free, a service for automating development tasks, provides 2,000 standard runner minutes (execution environments for jobs) per account each month for private repositories. If you exceed the free allowance, accounts without a valid payment method are blocked from using the service, while accounts with a payment method on file may be charged for the excess.
- What you get
- 2,000 free minutes per month for private repository jobs · Free for public repositories
- Price
- Free allowance renewed monthly · Separate from regular paid pricing and trial credits
- Valid until
- To be confirmed
- Requirements
- For new and existing users on personal Free and Free organizations · Exceeding the free allowance may result in blocking or charges, depending on the payment method · Separate account verification requirements need to be confirmed
Check the conditions on the official page ↗
Details
Pricing and limits summary
- Service name
- GitHub Actions
- Provider
- GitHub
- Plan
- GitHub Free
- Product type
- CI runners
Free allowance: Standard runners for private repositories are free for up to 2,000 minutes per account each month. Artifact storage is 500 MB and is shared with Packages. Temporary cache storage is available up to 10 GB per repository. Standard runners for public repositories are free.
Eligibility: Included with personal Free and Free organizations, and available to both new and existing users.
Payment method: Without a valid payment method, usage is blocked after the free allowance is exceeded. Separate account verification requirements need to be confirmed.
When using it in South Korea: Whether there are dedicated execution or storage regions in South Korea needs to be confirmed.
When not in use: Scheduled workflows are automatically disabled if there is no activity in a public repository for 60 days.
If you exceed the limit: Once you set up a valid payment method, you may be charged for the excess usage. larger runner (large task execution environment) is not eligible for free usage.
Commercial use: You may use it to develop, test and deploy commercial software. Advertising it for general server hosting, CDN (content delivery network) or free compute resource resale is prohibited.
Usage period: The free allowance renews monthly and is not a one-time credit.
https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/github-actions
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/manage-workflow-runs/disable-and-enable-workflows
https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-for-additional-products-and-features#actions
Sources and verification history
- Collection channel
- official-free-review
- Collected at
- 2026.10.04 17:23 KST
- First published
- Updated
- Official sources checked at