Comparison
Runnable gives every developer an independent delivery path without adding a seat to the CI bill. For 10 developers using 3,000 CI minutes, Runnable costs $20/month; GitHub Team seats cost $40/month. Add another developer at the same workload: Runnable adds $0/month; Team adds $4/month.
If you keep Team for code hosting and collaboration, its seat bill remains and the first 3,000 Actions minutes cost $0 incrementally. Runnable is a $20/month investment in a separate delivery path: its own scheduler, clean-machine fleet, logs, and spend controls. Both views are below.
Billing-model lens · headcount economics
Runnable independent CI
$20
$0/developer · whole team
GitHub Team seats
$40
10 × $4/user
Runnable uses Hobby: $5 base plus 2,500 minutes at $0.006, with 1 concurrent job and 7-day logs. The next developer adds $0/month at the same workload. GitHub Team adds $4/month.
Migration lens · cost of independence
GitHub Team seats
$40
unchanged for hosting and collaboration
Runnable independent CI
+$20
a separate delivery path
The Team seat bill appears on both sides, and its included Actions usage is $0 at this workload. Runnable's $20/month buys a separate scheduler, clean-machine runner fleet, masked logs, and spend controls instead of more GitHub-hosted minutes.
GitHub Free organizations support unlimited collaborators and include 2,000 private-repository Actions minutes. At 3,000 Linux 2-core minutes, their incremental usage is $6. Standard hosted runners for public repositories are free and unlimited.
Runnable owns workflow scheduling, execution, logs, retries, and runner capacity. Once a commit and event reach Runnable, the GitHub Actions control plane is not in that path. Your workflow syntax stays familiar; the system responsible for delivering it is separate.
Every job starts on a clean, single-use Linux machine with job-scoped credentials and masked logs. Runnable never uses source, diffs, workflows, logs, artifacts, secrets, or support attachments to train or improve AI models. The same commitment applies on every plan, with no opt-out required.
Runnable meters normalized compute and includes unlimited developers on every plan. Add engineers without adding CI seats, then set a hard monthly spend cap or stop at the included allowance. Spend grows when the team runs more work or needs more throughput—not when someone gets access.
This is the conservative migration case: the organization keeps paying for GitHub Team, so seats are excluded from both columns. Its 3,000 included minutes make low-volume Actions usage effectively free; the Runnable column prices a second, independent CI control plane using the lowest-cost eligible self-serve plan at each volume.
| Monthly CI | GitHub Actions usage | Runnable independent CI | Cost difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 min | $0 | $5 | +$5 |
| 3,000 min | $0 | $20 | +$20 |
| 6,000 min | $18 | $38 | +$20 |
| 10,000 min | $42 | $62 | +$20 |
| 30,000 min | $162 | $182 | +$20 |
GitHub-hosted Linux 2-core is $0.006 per minute for private repositories. One Runnable normalized minute is one minute on 2 vCPU, so the units are directly comparable. At the benchmark, Runnable uses Hobby with metered overage; higher plans buy more concurrency, retention, and storage rather than cheaper marginal minutes.
| GitHub | Runnable | |
|---|---|---|
| Developer-based plan charge | $4/user on GitHub Team | $0/user |
| Cost per additional Linux 2-core minute | $0.006 | $0.006 |
| Minutes included | 3,000 on GitHub Team | 500 to 30,000 by plan |
| Concurrent jobs | 60 on GitHub Team | 1 to 100 by plan |
| Maximum job length | 6 hours | 6 hours |
| Supported source providers | GitHub repositories | GitHub and Entire |
| OIDC token issuance | Supported | Supported |
Runnable separates CI from developer headcount and the GitHub Actions control plane. GitHub Team provides more included minutes and standard hosted-runner concurrency. Marginal Linux compute and maximum job length are even.
Price is not one number. These are the cases where GitHub's bundle or runtime is the stronger answer.
Incremental cost when you already keep GitHub Team. Its first 3,000 private-repository minutes are included; Runnable is an additional CI bill.
GitHub Free organizations. They support unlimited collaborators, include 2,000 private-repository Actions minutes, and can be cheaper for low-volume CI.
Standard GitHub-hosted runners for public repositories. They are free and unlimited.
Bundled collaboration. GitHub Team's $4/user buys code-hosting features as well as an extra 1,000 Actions minutes over Free.
Concurrency. GitHub Team allows 60 concurrent standard hosted jobs — more than every Runnable plan below Enterprise.
macOS, Windows, ARM, larger runners, and GPU runners. Runnable is Linux x64 only.
Job containers and the deepest integration with GitHub's own ecosystem. Runnable supports native services and OIDC, but not job containers.
Runnable reads the workflow files you already have. Paste one into the checker and you get an exact verdict, every unsupported construct named, what it would cost, and the migrated file to download. No account is required, workflow source is never retained, and only a de-identified compatibility summary is stored to improve Runnable.
Check your workflowSources verified 7 September 2026: GitHub plan pricing, included product usage, Actions billing, and Actions limits. Runnable pricing is derived from the live catalog on this site. If anything is out of date or unfair to GitHub, tell us and we will correct it.
