# How to make Gitea Actions work on gitea.com?

**URL:** <https://forum.gitea.com/t/how-to-make-gitea-actions-work-on-gitea-com/11793>\
**Category:** Actions\
**Created:** [November 11, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/how-to-make-gitea-actions-work-on-gitea-com/11793 "2025-11-11T14:15:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matej\_Cepl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/matej_cepl/32/7178_2.png) [@Matej\_Cepl](https://forum.gitea.com/u/Matej_Cepl)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/how-to-make-gitea-actions-work-on-gitea-com/11793/1 "2025-11-11T14:15:22Z")

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I hoped that enabling Gitea Actions would be as simple as enabling GitHub ones: just adding [some YAML workflow file somewhere](https://gitea.com/mcepl/m2crypto/src/branch/gitea_actions/.gitea/workflows/main.yml) and switching some knobs somewhere. When I [tried to add such file](https://gitea.com/mcepl/m2crypto/pulls/2), there seemed to be some recognition of its existence, but the runner never really started and it eventually timed out. Did I miss some knob to turn? Is it just that runners are not available on free tier? I do pay a little ($50/year unlimited) for SourceHut CI, so I would be willing to do so for gitea, but I haven’t found a place.

What I am missing?

Best,

Matěj Cepl

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**Author:** ![techknowlogick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/techknowlogick/32/4706_2.png) [@techknowlogick](https://forum.gitea.com/u/techknowlogick)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/how-to-make-gitea-actions-work-on-gitea-com/11793/2 "2025-11-15T20:13:44Z")

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Hi, currently there are no free runners available for [Gitea.com](http://Gitea.com) (for same reasons that SourceHut removed their free-tier for runners), but you can use a self-hosted runner. We are working expanding the managed runners service that Gitea Cloud has to [gitea.com](http://gitea.com) so users can have runners on there too (atm we are dogfooding the managed runners from the Gitea org on [gitea.com](http://gitea.com), and considering how best to expand for others too).  
Thanks for this question, and I’ll be sure to ping you when we have more details 🙂

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**Author:** ![Matej\_Cepl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/matej_cepl/32/7178_2.png) [@Matej\_Cepl](https://forum.gitea.com/u/Matej_Cepl)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/how-to-make-gitea-actions-work-on-gitea-com/11793/3 "2025-11-15T21:06:08Z")

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I was not talking about FREE runners (which is also why I  
mentioned SourceHut), I am willing to pay reasonable fee for  
it (see SourceHut pricelist for an example [1]), because I  
understand that it is really expensive to maintain hardware for  
those tests and it can be quite easily abused for soem nefarious  
purposes.

Best,

Matěj

[1] [Log in to sourcehut](https://meta.sr.ht/billing/change-product)