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## How CI/CD minutes are calculated
-CI/CD minutes are calculated based on:
+CI/CD minutes for individual jobs are calculated based on:
- The duration the job runs.
- The visibility of the projects where the job runs.
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- If a pipeline runs for one of the personal projects for `alice`, the CI/CD minutes
are added to the overall consumption for the `alice` namespace.
+The CI/CD minutes used by one pipeline is the total CI/CD minutes used by all the jobs
+that ran in the pipeline. The CI/CD minute usage for a pipeline can be higher than
+the duration of the pipeline if many jobs ran at the same time.
+
### Cost factor
The cost factor for a job running on a shared runner is: