Prices read from Depot's own pages on 1 October 2026
Depot pricing: plans, runner rates and how it compares with GitHub-hosted
Depot sells plans with included minutes, then bills extra GitHub Actions minutes at a flat $0.006 per minute on the Developer and Startup plans. Its smallest Linux runner is priced the same as GitHub's 2-core Linux runner, so the case for Depot rests on build speed, caching and unlimited concurrency rather than a lower per-minute rate.
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THE SHORT VERSION · 1 OCTOBER 2026
Plans and included usage
| Plan | Price | Users | Actions min/mo | Storage | Runner OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | $20/month | 1 | 2,000 | 25 GB | Linux, Windows[1][2] |
| Startup | $200/month | Unlimited | 20,000 | 250 GB | Linux, Windows, macOS[1][2] |
| Business | Custom | Unlimited | Custom | Custom | Linux, Windows, macOS[1][2] |
Plans also include Docker build minutes (500 / 5,000) and Depot CI minutes (2,000 / 20,000). Extra usage on Developer and Startup: GitHub Actions $0.006/min, Docker builds $0.04/min, cache storage $0.20/GB/month. SSO (SAML and SCIM) is listed as an optional $500/month add-on. Storage is cache plus registry. Build concurrency is unlimited on every plan.
GitHub Actions runner rates by size
Depot publishes a per-minute price and a minutes multiplier for each runner label. Larger runners use up included minutes faster in proportion to the multiplier.
| Runner | CPUs | Memory | Per-minute price | Minutes multiplier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| depot-ubuntu-24.04 | 2 | 8 GB | $0.006 | 1x[3] |
| depot-ubuntu-24.04-4 | 4 | 16 GB | $0.012 | 2x[3] |
| depot-ubuntu-24.04-8 | 8 | 32 GB | $0.024 | 4x[3] |
| depot-ubuntu-24.04-16 | 16 | 64 GB | $0.048 | 8x[3] |
| depot-ubuntu-24.04-arm | 2 | 8 GB | $0.006 | 1x[3] |
| depot-ubuntu-24.04-arm-4 | 4 | 16 GB | $0.012 | 2x[3] |
| depot-windows-2025 | 2 | 8 GB | $0.008 | 2x[3] |
| depot-macos-26 | 8 | 24 GB | $0.08 | not published[3] |
Linux sizes run to 64 CPUs ($0.192/min); Windows to 64 CPUs ($0.256/min). Intel runners use AMD EC2 instances; Arm runners use Graviton4. macOS runners run on M2 (macOS 14 and 15) or M4 (macOS 26). Depot notes its macOS capacity is not fully elastic, so macOS jobs can queue at busy times.
Depot against GitHub-hosted runners
Per-minute rates for the nearest comparable runner on each side. Depot's x86 Linux runner matches GitHub's price; its Arm runner costs more than GitHub's Arm runner; its Windows runner costs less.
| Runner | Depot | GitHub-hosted | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux x86, 2 CPU | $0.006[3] | $0.006 (2-core)[4] | same |
| Linux x86, 4 CPU | $0.012[3] | $0.012 (4-core)[4] | same |
| Linux x86, 8 CPU | $0.024[3] | $0.022 (8-core)[4] | +9% |
| Linux Arm, 2 CPU | $0.006[3] | $0.005 (2-core arm64)[4] | +20% |
| Windows, 2 CPU | $0.008[3] | $0.010 (2-core)[4] | -20% |
| macOS (Depot 8 CPU vs GitHub 3-4 core) | $0.08[3] | $0.062[4] | +29% (different hardware) |
Difference = Depot rate against the GitHub-hosted rate in the same row; negative means Depot is cheaper per minute. GitHub rates from our GitHub Actions pricing page, re-read from GitHub's docs on 1 October 2026. Shapes are not identical across vendors, so compare like with like where a row says so.
WORKED EXAMPLE: 25,000 Linux x86 minutes a month on the 2 CPU runner
List prices only. The GitHub figure is before any minutes your GitHub plan includes, which would lower it further. Developer is a single-user plan, so a team would be on Startup.
On price alone Depot does not undercut GitHub-hosted Linux. At 25,000 minutes the Startup plan costs $80 a month more than the same minutes on GitHub's 2-core runner. The money case only works if Depot's faster runners and cache cut enough wall-clock minutes to close that gap, and that depends on your workload, so measure a representative set of jobs before switching.
Windows is the one runner where Depot's list price is lower than GitHub's, by 20% on the 2 CPU size.
Billing details that change the bill
Included minutes are not a hard cap: usage beyond them bills at $0.006 per minute on Developer and Startup.[2]
macOS runners are only available on the Startup and Business plans. The Developer plan offers Linux and Windows.[2]
Larger runners consume included minutes at their multiplier (a 4 CPU Linux runner at 2x, 8 CPU at 4x), so 20,000 included minutes buy 5,000 minutes on an 8 CPU runner. The 2 CPU Windows runner also carries a 2x multiplier.[3]
Usage is tracked by the second with no one-minute minimum per run, and totalled at the end of the billing period.[2]
Frequently asked questions
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SOURCES · ALL READ 1 OCTOBER 2026
- [1]Depot pricing page: https://depot.dev/pricing, read 1 October 2026.
- [2]Depot docs, GitHub Actions runners overview and pricing: https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/overview, read 1 October 2026.
- [3]Depot docs, GitHub Actions runner types and per-minute prices: https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/runner-types, read 1 October 2026.
- [4]GitHub Docs, Actions runner pricing: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing, read 1 October 2026.
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