Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to SurplusCI
More builds, less bills, dedicated CI runners for cheap
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 7 we have checked on their own sites, 7 of them free or with a free tier. SurplusCI launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2021 · surplusci.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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RunMyJobfree tier, from $58.82/mo▲10CI runners billed by true CPU usage, no infra needed
2025 · runjob.eu · 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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Bitrise Build Hubfree tier, from $89/mo▲176GitHub Actions runners that build 2x faster for your agents
Sep 2026 · bitrise.io · 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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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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WarpBuild▲14430% faster, 50% cheaper Github actions runners
2023 · warpbuild.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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runCLAUDErun▲112I built runCLAUDErun because I got tired of manually running the same Claude Code tasks every day. It's free and it runs locally. What it does: It's a macOS app that schedules your local Claude Code to run on any schedule you want - daily, weekly, or custom cron expressions. My use case: Every night at 11pm, it automatically summarizes my Obsidian daily notes. But, it can schedule any Claude task - code reviews, data processing, report generation, web research, file organization, etc... Technical details: - Native macOS app (Electron + React) - Uses launchd for scheduling (proper macOS…
2025 · runclauderun.com · its alternatives →
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GitHub Agent HQ▲192Run Claude, Codex & Copilot directly in GitHub & VS Code
Feb 2026 · github.blog · 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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crunr ▲106Launch and run any compute job on AWS with 1 command
May 2026 · crunr.com · its alternatives →
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Cirun.iofree tier, from $29/mo▲5Managed Github Action runners on your Cloud Platform
2021 · cirun.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! My name is Olaf, I work at CircleCI as a technology advisor in the CTO office, came in through the acquisition of my company Vamp.io (progressive delivery for microservices on k8s) in 2021. Wanted to hear the HN community feedback and thoughts on a project we think could be very interesting when adding AI coding agents to the SDLC and your CI pipelines. Our team at CircleCI built Chunk sidecars after repeatedly running into the same issue internally: by the time our CI catches a failure, the agent has already moved on and most of the useful context is gone. The basic idea of Chunk…
May 2026 · circleci.com · 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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Use GitHub Actions & GitLab CI for Machine Learning
2020 · cml.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! My name is Marko and I am working on a CI/CD system at harmont.dev, a CI/CD system that sucks slightly less. As I've been working on the cloud, I realized that the CLI might be generally useful as a task runner, even if you don't care for our CI/CD, and that's what I'm sharing here! Every CI system I've used at Tesla, Bun, and mesa.dev has had the same problems: stateless and slow (GHA), or stateful and horizontally unscalable (Jenkins), with YAML on top of either. The straw that broke the camel's back for me was the realization that all my Claudes are waiting upwards…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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