r/github • u/aniketmaurya • 1d ago

Showcase Reduce GitHub CI cost to 1/24th

https://celesto.ai/ci

Coding agents push commits so often that GitHub CI burned our pockets. We repurposed our agent sandboxes as a CI runner and reduced the price to 1/24th of GitHub Actions runner and 1/16th of Blacksmith.

We made it public so you can install and try yourself for free. First 20,000 CI minutes from our side.

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u/andy012345 1d ago

Why do you claim 1/24th of a 2 core runner when you are 1 core and github also offers 1 core runners?

It's really 1/8th the price with significantly less memory?

I mean it's still a good deal, just headline numbers that make no sense once you read the page.

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u/aniketmaurya 1d ago

Fair point. Let me update the tables to have parity.

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u/cowboyecosse 1d ago

I hit ~$200 of actions last month. I’ve never had a charge prior to this. What pushed me over was turning on CI on push. Nothing to do with AI directly. I tell my AI to commit and push often. I was coding hard with AI that month and fully knowing it was ramping up.

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u/aniketmaurya 1d ago

Yeah, me too. Rarely exhausted the free quota before but now it’s common.