How Teams Save with CICosts

The Challenge

Sales Amplifiers' engineering team had grown rapidly, and their CI/CD costs were growing faster. Monthly GitHub Actions bills had tripled in six months, but no one knew why.

The Solution

After connecting CICosts, the team immediately saw that their integration test workflow was running on 16-core runners when 4-core would suffice. They also discovered duplicate workflow runs on draft PRs.

The Results

• ✓Reduced monthly CI costs from $4,200 to $2,436
• ✓Identified and fixed 3 misconfigured workflows
• ✓Set up alerts to prevent future cost spikes
• ✓Engineering leadership now has monthly cost reports

The Challenge

Ecoden needed to maintain strict compliance testing across multiple environments, but the matrix builds were becoming prohibitively expensive.

The Solution

CICosts helped them understand exactly which matrix combinations were necessary and which were redundant. They optimized their test matrix from 24 jobs to 8 without losing coverage.

The Results

• ✓Matrix builds reduced from 24 to 8 parallel jobs
• ✓Monthly CI costs dropped from $6,300 to $3,900
• ✓Anomaly alerts catch budget spikes before they escalate
• ✓CI run times actually improved by 15% with smarter parallelization

The Challenge

Sandvine manages GitHub organizations for multiple clients but had no way to track which client was responsible for which CI costs. They were essentially subsidizing expensive clients.

The Solution

With CICosts' multi-org support, they can now see costs broken down by organization, repository, and workflow. This enables accurate client billing and helps identify which projects need optimization.

The Results

• ✓Accurate cost attribution across 23 client projects
• ✓Discovered 3 clients using 4x more CI than quoted
• ✓Renegotiated contracts based on actual CI usage
• ✓Set per-client budget alerts to prevent overruns