Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Blacksmith
Faster and cheaper hosted GitHub Actions runners
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 6 we have checked on their own sites, 6 of them free or with a free tier. Blacksmith launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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RunsOnfree tier, from $300/mo▲14210x cheaper GitHub Actions runners, self-hosted on AWS
2024 · runs-on.com · its alternatives →
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WarpBuildfree tier, from $0.003/mo▲19510x cheaper Github actions in your AWS account
2024 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →
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WarpBuild▲14430% faster, 50% cheaper Github actions runners
2023 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →
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BuildJet for GitHub Actionsfree tier, from $0.004/mo▲82Managed high-performance runners for Github Actions
2021 · buildjet.com · its alternatives →
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GitHub Actions▲626Automate your workflow from idea to production
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A faster, more flexible GitHub Enterprise.
2014 · enterprise.github.com · its alternatives →
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Bitrise Build Hubfree tier, from $89/mo▲176GitHub Actions runners that build 2x faster for your agents
29d ago · bitrise.io · its alternatives →
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Tools to build on and improve your workflow
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm Jacob, one of the founders of Depot (https://depot.dev), a build service for Docker images, and I'm excited to show what we’ve been working on for the past few months: run GitHub Actions jobs in AWS, orchestrated by Depot! Here's a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX5Z-k1mGc8, and here’s our blog post: https://depot.dev/blog/depot-github-actions-runners. While GitHub Actions is one of the most prevalent CI providers, Actions is slow, for a few reasons: GitHub uses underpowered CPUs, network throughput for cache and the…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Tenki Cloudfree tier, from $0/mo▲125GitHub actions. 90% cheaper. 30% faster. 2-clicks migration.
2025 · tenki.cloud · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m Surya and I’m excited to show you WarpBuild! WarpBuild provides fast, secure `x86-64` and `arm64` Github actions runners. This speeds up your workloads by 30%, at half the cost, and takes ~2mins to get started. We’ve been seeing pretty good results since we opened up signups a week ago and I’ve shared some numbers publicly here [1]. Currently, we support linux runners for Github organizations (not personal accounts) and MacOS support is coming soon (~Jan). The way the runners work is deceptively simple: Runners are assigned to hardware that is ideal for build workloads with fast…
2023 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, BuildJet makes GitHub Actions faster, by running the workflows on our Gaming CPU cloud. You still get to keep everything GitHub Actions, we simply replace the underlying GitHub Actions runner with our Gaming CPUs. All you do is change 1 line, and get 2x faster and cheaper builds. GitHub Action is very slow - Developers are wasting their time – Waiting for GitHub Actions to give you a green checkbox on PR, is very wasteful and extremely tedious. - GitHub Actions runner hardware is old and slow – GitHub Actions use old and slow machines from Azure. Some of your workflows run on servers…
2023 · buildjet.com · its alternatives →
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Sourcegraph▲114Find and fix things across all of your code faster
2022 · sourcegraph.com · its alternatives →
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I've created a GitHub Action for running commands on multiple platforms. This includes platforms that GitHub Actions don't natively support. It currently supports FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. OpenBSD can run on x86-64 and ARM64, the other operating systems run on x86-64. Some of the features that are supported include: * Multiple operating system with one single action * Multiple versions of each operating system * Allows to use default shell or Bash shell * Low boot overhead * Fast execution * Runs on both macOS and Linux runners Compared to similar solutions like…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Track, report and automate GitHub workflows in Slack. Free
2020 · its alternatives →
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Monk CIfree tier, from $20/mo▲1Fastest Github Action Runner
Sep 2026 · monkci.com · its alternatives →
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