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Kyle Daigle (@kdaigle) posted on 2026-05-05 that GitHub will cut free-account…
Brief
Kyle Daigle (@kdaigle) says GitHub will halve free-account Actions minutes “tomorrow” (post dated 2026-05-05), citing a surge in activity: 1 billion commits in 2025 and roughly 275 million commits/week now (a ~14 billion/year linear pace). He reports Actions minutes grew from 500M/week in 2023 to 1B/week in 2025 and 2.1B so far this week, prompting CPU and service scaling.
Why it matters
Kyle Daigle (@kdaigle) posted on 2026-05-05 that GitHub will cut free-account GitHub Actions minutes in half “tomorrow.”
Key details
- Platform activity surge: there were 1 billion commits in 2025 and now ~275 million commits per week — on pace for ~14 billion commits this year if growth remained linear (author: “spoiler: it won't”).
- GitHub Actions usage climbed from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and reached 2.1B minutes so far this week; GitHub is adding CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening core features in response.