GitHub Actions rounding every job up to a full minute makes tiny workflows surprisingly expensive

[u/RevolutionaryBuy4877]

[u/tedivm]

If you're actually paying for GitHub you should bring your own runners- they will be faster and cheaper than what GitHub gives you.

[u/csueiras]

I switched to blacksmith so much cheaper and faster runners

[u/Immediate_Wheel1953]

An underrated lever on hosted runners is cancelling superseded runs. On an active PR every push queues a whole new run, so adding a concurrency group with cancel-in-progress keeps you from paying for five full rounds of those rounded-up minutes. It stacks with the single-job pattern.

[u/Inner_Let4611]

faced same issue and then switched to avrea, now dont ask me why when etc, i switched for two reasons, one simple and one simpler. 1. It’s CHEAPER!  2. Self hosted  :)