Can we increase the GitHub Actions cache size for a repo?

[vilkinsons]

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Is it possible to get a GitHub Actions cache size of greater than 10GB? Use case is a large (growing) monorepo with quite a few contributors. Although the repo is public/open-source, we'd be happy to pay.

I have looked for previous threads and found some that touch on cache sizes, but none which explicitly ask whether it can be increased.

Thank you!

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[yogurtearl]

This should be marked as a feature request not a question.

[crohr]

@vilkinsons if you're still looking, you might be interested in a drop-in actions/cache replacement with S3 as the backend, for infinite caching. Also worth having a look at RunsOn, which integrates it natively.

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[lkfortuna]

Hi there from the Actions team 👋 We are working on this ability. It should come early (Q1) next calendar year.

[clemlesne]

Strongly agree! It will be extremely useful especially for container build cache :)

[louwers]

A 10GB cache is too small for even one run of our workflows.

This is badly needed.

[snnn]

How is it going?

[louwers]

@lkfortuna Could you apply the Feature Request label?

[jjb]

github/roadmap#1029

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[dzmitry-lahoda]

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[endersonmenezes]

If anyone else stumbled upon this feature, it is already in planning/development and scheduled here: github/roadmap#1029 (comment)

Now we just have to wait a bit!

Thx @lkfortuna for the information!

[bpollman]

Just bumped on the road map from 2025 Q2 to Q3 😢

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[louwers]

Not dormant.

[cactusoftheday]

Still waiting...

[lyager]

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[Barre]

In case this helps someone, I wrote a github action for ZeroFS that can be used to achieve that.

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/zerofs-volume

[lyager]

I think this was scheduled for Q1, is there and updated plan?

[jonas-budde]

See: github/roadmap#1029

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[gsabran]

Is there an updated timeline, other than github/roadmap#1029 which has been pushed out by one quarter every quarter for a year now?

[nebuk89]

Sorry it keeps getting pushed out! We are actually doing a private beta currently and when we have used that to get the load testing essentially done :) we plan to release publicly. I am far more confident of this date now.. as the work is actually done unless we hit load issues!

Sorry for this one moving so much

[gsabran]

This is great to hear, thanks!

[nebuk89]

Finally - yes you can

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-11-20-github-actions-cache-size-can-now-exceed-10-gb-per-repository/

Onto the next fix! <3

[Barre]

Finally - yes you can

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-11-20-github-actions-cache-size-can-now-exceed-10-gb-per-repository/

Onto the next fix! <3

Considering that it comes out at $0.07 per GB per month it sounds like using https://github.com/marketplace/actions/zerofs-volume with cloudflare r2 at $0.015 per GB per month would be vastly cheaper.