Julien Danjou • 12/18/2025

GitHub Actions Pricing: The Platform Reality Check

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This article examines the recent GitHub Actions pricing changes, including the paused plan to charge for self-hosted runners. It argues that GitHub's platform services were never truly free and discusses the reality of vendor lock-in and the fragility of CI cost arbitrage business models. The piece provides a technical and economic reality check for the developer ecosystem.

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