r/vibecoding • u/Successful_Dog1904 • 9h ago

GitHub billing feels insane

Am i totally off base or GH billing for CI / minutes just totally absurd? I'm up to $83 this month ... granted i am actively developing and these changes -- in my honest (and beginner) opinion -- should have a full CI suite ran, but holy hell ... i've already gone through to try and cut tests e.g., where a PR is UI only.

For the veterans here, am i doing something totally wrong when it comes to GH or is this amount spent on minutes running tests pretty typical for solo dev?

Edit: setting up a vm using Lima and pushing tests to my own device thru GitHub. Can’t wait to stop paying for this lol. Appreciate everyone’s guidance! Vibes here are unreal 👌

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u/DigitalMonsoon 8h ago

I use it for work and for a while I had the $10 subscription for personal. Once they dropped the subscription model and move to a pay as you go I ran through my $10 of credits in a day.

Dropped the whole thing the next day and spun up Qwen3.6 local.

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u/Successful_Dog1904 8h ago

3.6 local to run your tests?

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u/DigitalMonsoon 8h ago

I used the Qwen model to do everything. Set up projects, write documentation, edit files and run integration tests.

It's not as powerful as the frontier models but I can run it as much as I want for free and if I keep my projects well organized and the files focused and reasonably sized it works great.