# Free trial

> How long Skipbox's free trial lasts, what it runs, when it starts, who gets one, and what happens when it ends.

The trial needs no card and charges nothing.

## What it gives

- **7 days or 3,000 job-minutes**, whichever comes first.
- **1 job at a time**, at 4 vCPU and 8 GB: use `runs-on: skipbox`.

Job-minutes count each job's running time on a Skipbox runner, by the second, from when it starts to when it ends. Time waiting in the queue doesn't count.

## When it starts

At your account's first job on Skipbox: not when you sign in, and not when you install the app. So waiting for an owner to approve the install takes no days from it.

## Who gets one

- One trial per account (an organization or a personal account), and one per person.
- Skipbox needs an email address to write to about the trial. If GitHub doesn't share one, your dashboard asks for it, and jobs wait until you add it.
- For an organization, the person who installed the app signs in once before the trial's jobs run.

## While it runs

Your dashboard shows the days and job-minutes left. A second job waits while one runs; your account's page says which plans would run them at once.

A `skipbox-8x16` or `skipbox-16x32` job doesn't run in the trial: change it to `skipbox`.

## When it ends

Skipbox stops taking your jobs until you choose a plan. Nothing is charged. Jobs still set to `skipbox` wait on GitHub, and GitHub cancels them after 24 hours. Choose a plan, or set them back to a GitHub-hosted label. See [Plans](https://docs.skipbox.dev/plans).

Updated 2026-11-09 · https://docs.skipbox.dev/trial