GitHub Actions pricing changes break enterprise budgets with short notice
7/10 HighGitHub suddenly introduced additional per-minute charges for GitHub Actions minutes in December, breaking established budgets across enterprise teams. No per-second billing option exists, and the announcement left no time for departments to adjust fiscal budgets, creating surprise costs mid-fiscal-year.
Sources
Collection History
the per-minute billing model lacks transparency around resource utilization, leading to budget surprises
It was really terrible from an Enterprise standpoint, because budgets are already set for different departments and development teams. They were told that all they needed to pay for was their infrastructure, not the scheduler, since that's a huge part of what they're already paying for with their per-person Enterprise license. Then this was announced, and suddenly here at the end of the year.