Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Performance GitHub Actions runners powered by Gaming CPUs
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…
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. Performance GitHub Actions runners powered by Gaming CPUs launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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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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WarpBuild▲14430% faster, 50% cheaper Github actions runners
2023 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →
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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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GitHub Actions▲626Automate your workflow from idea to production
2018 · 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
28d ago · bitrise.io · its alternatives →
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Blacksmithfree tier, from $0.0025/mo▲105Faster and cheaper hosted GitHub Actions runners
2024 · blacksmith.sh · 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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WarpBuildfree tier, from $0.003/mo▲19510x cheaper Github actions in your AWS account
2024 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →
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A GitHub Action that runs a command in a gVisor sandbox - geomys/sandboxed-step
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Execute any script in a GitHub issue comment. Contribute to nwtgck/actions-comment-run development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tools to build on and improve your workflow
2017 · github.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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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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Tenki Cloudfree tier, from $0/mo▲125GitHub actions. 90% cheaper. 30% faster. 2-clicks migration.
2025 · tenki.cloud · 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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Hi all! I wanted to share a small project that I've been working on with a buddy. https://www.actionspanel.app/ One of the problems that currently exists with GitHub Actions is the fact that there is no way to easily trigger your Actions unless you cause some kind of GitHub event. This could be pushing a new commit, or creating an issue on a repository. But if you just want to run an arbitrary action, there's not currently a good way to do that. This is a well known feature request: https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/GitHub-Actions-Ma... GitHub…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Use GitHub Actions to create a Serverless service. - gitfx/ActionServerless
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Excited to show another gamification way of visualize github contribution graph!
Jan 2026 · github.com · 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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GitQuest▲187Hey HN, I built Git Quest, it reads your public GitHub history and turns it into an idle RPG character. How it works: - Your most-used language determines your class (TypeScript → Paladin, Python → Sage, etc.) - Commits generate Power and XP - Your character auto-battles dungeons while you code – no active play needed - Enemies drop loot across 5 rarity tiers - Live leaderboard ranks developers It only reads public GitHub data. I built it because I wanted something that rewards coding consistency without being another "streak" tracker. The idle mechanic means prolific coders naturally…
2025 · gitquest.dev · its alternatives →
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