Your agents push all day. CI bills by the minute.

Mac builds were 15% of my minutes and 57% of my bill.

AEON KARAOKE, SIX DAYS, LIST PRICE
$237
macOS builds
$136
Linux jobs
$85
Windows builds
$16

SEE WHAT GITHUB ACTIONS COSTS YOU

git clone https://github.com/Kloudy-Sky/runnerbox
cd runnerbox && pnpm install
pnpm runnerbox report --repo you/your-app

FIX IT, CHEAPEST FIRST

Find the expensive rowThe report, or your billing pageSTART HEREBuild apps on releasesOne workflow editMOST OF $152Batch agent pushesOne line of instructions$22Move Linux to your boxA spare computer and some setupUP TO $85

Don't self-host on a public repo unless you have to.

Any pull request could run code on your machine, and standard GitHub runners are free there anyway. If you have to, read the threat model first.

AN OLD LAPTOP IS SLOWER

First testOne job, no VM1.25X
End-to-end jobsIn a firewalled VM1.5 TO 1.8X
CPU-heavy checksi5-10210U, 7 GB of RAM4 TO 8X

runnerbox report works today. The launcher hasn't run a real job, so don't point CI at it. Read how I got here.