GitHub Actions Changed Pricing in 2026 — Here's Exactly What You're Paying Now (Free Calculator Inside)

The Bill That Started This In January 2026, GitHub quietly updated their Actions pricing. Ubuntu went from $0.008/min to $0.006/min — a 25% reduction. macOS went from $0.080/min to $0.048/min — a 40% drop. Good news, right? Cheaper CI/CD. Except most teams had no idea this happened. And many teams are still paying for macOS runners when Ubuntu would do the same job for 8x less. The 2026 GitHub Actions Pricing (Official Numbers) Runner Old Price New Price (Jan 2026) Change Ubuntu (Linux) $0.008/min $0.006/min -25% Windows $0.016/min $0.010/min -37.5% macOS $0.080/min $0.048/min -40% These are the overage rates after free tier. Free tier: 2,000 min (Free), 3,000 min (Pro), 50,000 min (Team). The macOS Problem Nobody Talks About macOS runners cost 8x more than Ubuntu runners on the new pricing. Before the update, it was 10x. Still 8x. Here's what that means in practice: # This job on macOS: $0.048/min × 10 min = $0.48 per run # This job on Ubuntu: $0.006/min × 10 min = $0.06 per run jobs