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24 alternatives to Standfast

Know if your Mac's GitHub Actions runners will get work

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 5 we have checked on their own sites, 5 of them free or with a free tier.

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

    GitHub Actions runners that build 2x faster for your agents

    Sep 2026 · bitrise.io · its alternatives →

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    Automate your workflow from idea to production

    2018 · github.com · 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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    Manage your GitHub Actions

    2022 · apps.apple.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 →

  7. 7MG

    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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    Blacksmithfree tier, from $0.0025/mo▲105

    Faster and cheaper hosted GitHub Actions runners

    2024 · blacksmith.sh · its alternatives →

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    WarpBuild▲144

    30% faster, 50% cheaper Github actions runners

    2023 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →

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    2.5x faster GitHub Actions Runners

    2023 · tart.run · 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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    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▲195

    10x cheaper Github actions in your AWS account

    2024 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →

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    Free Zapier alternative based on Github Actions

    2020 · actionsflow.github.io · its alternatives →

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    A GitHub Action that runs a command in a gVisor sandbox - geomys/sandboxed-step

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    FlyCI▲7

    MacOS M1 and M2 runners for GitHub Actions

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Cashew▲90

    A simple Github issues macOS client

    2016 · 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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    GitBar▲126

    Every pull request, one menubar. GitHub, GitLab & Azure

    Apr 2026 · gitbar.app · 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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    GitHub notifications delivered to your Mac

    2020 · gitpigeon.com · its alternatives →

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    PRNotch▲74

    GitHub pull requests in your Mac's notch

    Jul 2026 · prnotch.pages.dev · its alternatives →

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    GitHub commit graph, now with WidgetKit and Mac support

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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