Pick Depot if
teams who will take the 7-day trial, then stay on Developer at $20 / month while they run a first job graph — and will jump to Startup at $200 / month when they need 20,000 Actions minutes.
Read the Depot pageDepot vs Namespace
Our take
Pick Depot if teams who will take the 7-day trial, then stay on Developer at $20 / month while they run a first job graph — and will jump to Startup at $200 / month when they need 20,000 Actions minutes. Pick Namespace if cI teams who will stay on Developer at $0 (pay-as-you-go) while they open a first GitHub Actions Overview, then buy Team at $100 / month when they want the included build pack and more cache
Depot
hosted build-and-Actions desk
Best for
Depot Docker / Actions minutes you start at $20
Namespace Actions minutes and remote boxes you start at $0
Free plan
Depot No free plan
Namespace $0 · pay as you go. Devbox from $0.004 / min. Builds $0.05 / build. Registry / Turbo / Gradle / GitHub Artifacts $0.2 / GB-month
Lowest paid
Depot Overage $0.006
Namespace Meters that stay on every tile $0.004
Next step up
Depot Developer $20
Namespace Business $250
Runs where
Depot Local or hosted
Namespace Local or hosted
Watch out
Depot Developer is 1 user and 500 container minutes
Namespace Developer $0 is pay-as-you-go, not unlimited minutes
Last checked
Depot 2026-10-23 · depot.dev/pricing
Namespace 2026-10-23 · namespace.so/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Namespace if
cI teams who will stay on Developer at $0 (pay-as-you-go) while they open a first GitHub Actions Overview, then buy Team at $100 / month when they want the included build pack and more cache allowance.
Read the Namespace page