Question about disabling Actions for Draft PRs and charges

[rmincling]

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Hi all,

So we have the setup below for a github action/workflow. It skips this job when the PR is a draft. Which is great. However, as the git workflow/action is still being activated, even if it only takes a few seconds, are we still getting changed for the partial minute?

As on here Git Billing it states "GitHub rounds the minutes and partial minutes each job uses up to the nearest whole minute."

If that is the case, then is there anywhere else on an account level perhaps that will allow us to disable actions completely on draft PRs, without incurring any charges?

Any advice/thoughts are much appreciated,

Regards

Rob

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, ready_for_review]
    branches:
      - master
      - development
    paths:
      - 'react-app/**/*.js'
      - 'react-app/**/*.ts'
      - 'react-app/**/*.tsx'

jobs:
  build:
    if: github.event.pull_request.draft == false
    name: React Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

[ThisaraJayas]

GitHub Actions charges you based on the total time your workflows spend running, rounded up to the nearest minute. Even if a job is skipped because of a draft pull request, the workflow still starts and any time spent counts towards billing. Unfortunately, github doesn't provide a way to completely avoid charges for actions triggered by draft pull requests.

[rmincling]

So i asked Git directly and here is what they said, it looks like skipped actions do not get billed.

Hi Rob,

Thank you for reaching out.

You will not be billed for workflow runs that were skipped.

Users can view the billable time by clicking on the billable time link as shown in my screenshot.

If you do notice you were charged incorrectly for a particular workflow run, could I ask you to share the workflow run url in your next reply?

Cheers,
James

I have confirmed this myself, my skipped actions have no billable cost shown, but normal actions that have ran do state a billable run time.