The Economics of CI Pricing: A Framework for Fair...

The Economics of CI Pricing: A Framework for Fair Runner Costs When GitHub announced their pricing changes for Actions runners last year, the developer community erupted. The proposal felt arbitrary, disconnected from actual value delivered, and worst of all—opaque. As someone who's managed CI infrastructure for teams ranging from five developers to fifty, I found myself asking the same questions many of you probably did: Why should we pay for idle time? Why is concurrency so expensive? What are