In Q1 2026, our 42-person engineering team at a Series C fintech killed our 3-year-old Azure DevOps 2025 instance, migrated 127 production pipelines to GitHub Actions 2026.02, and hasn’t looked back—we cut mean pipeline runtime by 62%, reduced monthly CI/CD infra spend by $14,200, and reallocated 3 full-time DevOps engineers to product feature work.

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Key Insights

GitHub Actions 2026.02 reduced p99 pipeline latency by 71% compared to Azure DevOps 2025’s hosted agents

Azure DevOps 2025 required 12 self-hosted agent VMs at $1,180/month each; GitHub Actions uses 3 ephemeral runners at $210/month total

Migration took 11 sprints with zero…