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Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Monk CI

Fastest Github Action Runner

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.

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    Bitrise Build Hubfree tier, from $89/mo▲176

    GitHub Actions runners that build 2x faster for your agents

    28d ago · bitrise.io · its alternatives →

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    Blacksmithfree tier, from $0.0025/mo▲105

    Faster and cheaper hosted GitHub Actions runners

    2024 · blacksmith.sh · its alternatives →

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    RunsOnfree tier, from $300/mo▲142

    10x cheaper GitHub Actions runners, self-hosted on AWS

    2024 · runs-on.com · its alternatives →

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    Tenki Cloudfree tier, from $0/mo▲125

    GitHub actions. 90% cheaper. 30% faster. 2-clicks migration.

    2025 · tenki.cloud · its alternatives →

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    BuildJet for GitHub Actionsfree tier, from $0.004/mo▲82

    Managed high-performance runners for Github Actions

    2021 · buildjet.com · its alternatives →

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    WarpBuild▲144

    30% faster, 50% cheaper Github actions runners

    2023 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →

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    WarpBuildfree tier, from $0.003/mo▲195

    10x cheaper Github actions in your AWS account

    2024 · warpbuild.com · 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 →

  9. 9MG

    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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    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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    Runnex▲8

    Slash GitHub Runner costs by +70% with a single-line change

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    FasterGH▲260

    Fast GitHub browsing experience

    Mar 2026 · fastergh.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I’ve been running GitHub Actions workflows for a while, and when GitHub announced the new ubuntu-slim runners as a cheaper alternative to ubuntu-latest, I wanted to migrate—but figuring out which workflows are safe to switch turned out to be surprisingly tedious. You need to check for Docker usage, services, containers, step failures due to missing packages, and whether jobs rely on tools not available in the slim image. So I built gh-slimify, a GitHub CLI extension that automates all of this. It scans your repository, detects which jobs can be migrated, flags incompatible patterns,…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Speed up your builds with fully cached GitHub Action Runners

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Speed up your CI/CD pipeline

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    From git clone to running code in one command

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I’m Surya and I’m super excited to show you WarpBuild’s new MacOS runners for Github Actions! The MacOS runners are powered by M2 Pros with 6vcpu and 14GB memory. On paper, this is comparable to the M1 powered macos-latest-xlarge runners by Github but are 25% faster and 50% cheaper, with the same tools pre-installed. This is useful for 4 reasons: because Github runners are super slow and pricey and even more so on mac, managing mac infra is a hassle, concurrent CI runs on macs can get very expensive, and pre-installed tooling speeds up workflows. We have teams running iOS builds on…

    2024 · docs.warpbuild.com · its alternatives →

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    Automate Github’s CI/CD in under 3 mins

    2021 · mergequeue.com · its alternatives →

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    A faster, more flexible GitHub Enterprise.

    2014 · enterprise.github.com · its alternatives →

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    2.5x faster GitHub Actions Runners

    2023 · tart.run · its alternatives →

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    I'm continuing to improve my RunsOn tool for launching self-hosted runners for GitHub Action on AWS, this time with support for any GPU-enabled instance type from EC2, and using the official Deep Learning AMIs as the runner image. Much cheaper than the official GitHub Actions runners, and accessible on any GitHub plan.

    2024 · runs-on.com · its alternatives →

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    Automating developer workflows from GitHub comments

    2023 · cto.ai · its alternatives →

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    FlyCI▲7

    MacOS M1 and M2 runners for GitHub Actions

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Autopopulate your Github activity chart

    2023 · its alternatives →

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