Understand GitHub Actions Usage & Performance

Export last month's Actions usage and performance from GitHub, drop in the four CSVs, and get one report covering minutes, cost, run times and failures for every workflow, job and repository.

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Cost · sample org

GitHub bills an estimated $589 a month for these Actions.

Published runner rates × GitHub-hosted minutes, minus the plan's included minutes. Self-hosted minutes aren't GitHub's.

The bill, step by step

GitHub-hosted minutes by tier

Standard · 99,352 min$584

Slim · 2,365 min$5

Larger · 0 minnone

Not priced · 81 minsee notes

Bill

Before included minutes$607

Team · 3,000 min included−$18

Per month$589

× 12$7,068

Not GitHub's

Self-hosted · 85,180 minnot billed

Per year

$7,068

Runner minutes · 186,978

GitHub-hosted 54%Self-hosted 46%

Concentration · sample org

14 of 150 billed workflows make up 71% of the bill.

And one repository, repo-014, is 73% of it on its own.

#	Workflow	GitHub cost	Share
1	workflow-015.ymlrepo-014	$95	16%
2	workflow-062.ymlrepo-014	$70	12%
3	workflow-090.ymlrepo-014	$69	12%

Performance · sample org

A typical workflow run takes 1m 15s; the slowest tenth belong to workflows averaging 6m 49s or more.

Weighted by runs, from per-workflow averages in the performance export. Covers 98.3% of runs.

Slowest workflows	Avg run	Runs
workflow-089.ymlrepo-025	19m 48s	132
workflow-089.ymlrepo-014	19m 27s	2,415
workflow-040.ymlrepo-008	16m 20s	37

Queue time · sample org

A typical job waits 9s for a runner; the longest-waiting tenth, 23s or more.

Covers 100.0% of 51,185 job runs, GitHub-hosted and self-hosted.

Longest waits	Avg wait	Runs
job-1965workflow-077.yml · ubuntu-latest	11m 26s	4
job-1964workflow-077.yml · ubuntu-latest	10m 22s	4
job-1999workflow-077.yml · ubuntu-latest	10m 16s	4

Reliability · sample org

1 in 12 workflow runs had a failed job, and 3 workflows hold 44% of them.

8.2% · ≈3,119 of 37,870 measured runs. Ranked by failed runs, not by rate.

1 cell = 1 run in 100

Top contributors	Failed	Rate
workflow-093.ymlrepo-036 · 2,014 runs	≈664	33%
workflow-089.ymlrepo-014 · 2,413 runs	≈523	22%
workflow-102.ymlrepo-014 · 677 runs	≈191	28%

Assumptions · sample org · try it

Your plan and public repos decide the bill. Change them.

Each combination below is a separate engine run on the sample org's exports.

GitHub plan

repo-014, the biggest repo (124,868 min)

Standard GitHub-hosted runners are free in public repositories. The other 38 repos stay private.

Before included minutes$607
Public repo · 0 minfree
3,000 min included−$18

$589/ month

≈ $7,068 a year