CI/CD Pipeline Cost Calculator

Estimate monthly and yearly CI/CD runner spend from daily build volume, average build length, per-minute cost and cache hit ratio.

Builds per day (workflow runs)

Average build duration (min)

Price per minute (USD)

Cache hit rate (%)

How to Use the CI/CD Pipeline Cost Calculator

Enter average daily build count.
Enter average build duration in minutes.
Enter the provider price per minute.
Enter cache hit rate as a percentage.
Click Calculate.

Anwendungsfälle

•DevOps budgeting.
•Comparing cache investments to runner bills.
•Justifying a move to self-hosted runners.

Formel

Monthly minutes = builds/day × avg minutes × 30. Effective minutes = total × (1 − cache_hit × 0.6). Cost = effective minutes × price per minute.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Why multiply cache hit by 0.6?

Dependency caching typically removes 50–70% of the install phase but leaves test execution, linting and deploy steps intact. 0.6 is a defensible average.

Which CI services does this cover?

Any minute-based runner — GitHub Actions, GitLab, Buildkite, CircleCI, Buddy. For GitHub the Linux rate is about 0.008 USD/min; macOS is 10× that.

Self-hosted runners?

Enter a marginal electricity + amortised hardware rate per minute. Bare-metal runners often come out at 0.001 USD/min or less.