Metered Actions usage for a public repo?

[anon-123456789]

Why are you starting this discussion?

Question

What GitHub Actions topic or product is this about?

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Discussion Details

I recently got the enhanced billing platform on my account, and it seems like this repo is causing my metered Actions usage to go up. This usage seems to be covered by my 2000 free hours, even though it's a public repo. From what I understand, usage for standard GitHub runners on public repos doesn't count against the 2000 free hours that I have. This didn't seem to be an issue before, and strangely this doesn't seem to be the case either with my (two) free organizations which also use GitHub Actions.

[sebastienlato]

Double-check the repo visibility:

Go to the repository → Settings → Confirm it's public.

Inspect the workflow file:

Ensure you are not calling any premium Actions or self-hosted runners.

Contact GitHub Support:

Go to GitHub Support.

Explain:

It's a public repo.

You're being charged metered usage.

You recently got the enhanced billing platform.

Your free orgs are unaffected.

As a workaround:

If this persists and you want to avoid any risk of billing, you could move the repo to one of your free organizations (where usage isn’t currently metered).

[domdfcoding]

At the bottom is shows a discount equalling the costs you've accrued, leaving nothing to pay. I think this is GitHub's round-the-houses way of showing free usage for public repositories. I am seeing this on my repositories too but with nothing to pay at the end.

[anon-123456789]

So it turns out that if you click on "More details" under Overview > Current included usage it actually does mention the "100% discount" for workflows on public repos being the entirety of my usage.

In other words, you were actually right.