How Free Credits Works
Learn how free credits work in Tenki and how to use them to run GitHub Actions runners with better performance and cost improvements.
Every Tenki Starter workspace includes $10 in free monthly credits, automatically renewed on the 1st of each month and applied to your oldest (default) workspace.
How you get your Free Credits
Create your Tenki account and your workspace starts with $10 in credits immediately. You can begin running CI workflows, triggering code reviews, or spinning up sandboxes.
On the 1st of every month, your Starter workspace is topped back up to $10 in free credits.
How Free Credit Usage Is Calculated
Credits are spent at the same per-unit rates as paid usage. For a 2 vCPU x64 runner billed at $0.002 per core / minute, $10 in credits buys roughly 2,500 minutes per month. Larger runners burn credits proportionally faster — a 4 vCPU runner burns at $0.008/min, an 8 vCPU runner at $0.016/min.
See the pricing page for the full per-unit rate card across all products.
When you exceed your free credits
Usage beyond the $10 monthly allowance is billed at the standard per-unit rates listed on the pricing page. The Team plan ($200/month yearly, $250/month monthly) raises the included credit allowance to $100 / month and adds higher concurrency, larger runner sizes, and premium infrastructure.