---
title: "9apes Blog - GitHub Actions Performance and Cost"
description: "Practical writing on GitHub Actions cost, runner performance, caching, and CI isolation from the team building 9apes runners."
url: https://9apes.com/blog/
---

# 9apes Blog - GitHub Actions Performance and Cost

What we learn running GitHub Actions jobs on bare metal: where CI time actually goes, what moves a bill, and how the isolation works.

## Posts

- [How to cut your GitHub Actions bill](https://9apes.com/blog/cut-your-github-actions-bill/) — Five changes that reduce GitHub Actions spend, from the ones that cost nothing to make to the ones that need a different runner underneath. Published 2026-08-25.

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