About Blacksmith
Blacksmith is the fastest way to run GitHub Actions. It targets teams and organizations that rely on GitHub Actions for CI/CD and offers a drop-in replacement at roughly 75% lower cost than GitHub runners.
Key Features
Blacksmith replaces GitHub Actions runners, delivering faster builds and lower costs while keeping your workflows intact. It also surfaces CI signals so you can spot failures and regressions faster:
2x faster hardware
Bare-metal gaming CPUs with the highest single-core performance to speed up your jobs.
4x faster cache downloads
Cache artifacts co-located in the same data center where your jobs run, cutting pull times.
40x faster Docker Builds
Persist Docker layers across CI runs on NVMe drives for quicker builds.
CI observability
Clear indicators of what’s happening in the CI pipeline, helping you spot misconfigurations and performance regressions.
Summary
Best for engineering teams running GitHub Actions for CI/CD, including mid-market orgs, DevOps/SRE teams, and startups migrating from GitHub runners.
Pricing
View pricingPay-As-You-Go
$0.004 / per min
- 3,000 free monthly minutes on 2 vCPU runners
- 2x faster hardware
- 4x faster cache downloads
- GitHub Actions observability
- Add-on: Docker layer caching (+$0.50/GB/mo.)
- Add-on: Static IPs (+$100/IP/mo.)
- Add-on: Priority Slack channel support (+$500/mo.)
Enterprise
Contact for pricing / N/A
- Includes Pay-As-You-Go features
- Enterprise free trial
- White-glove onboarding
- 99.9% SLA
- 24/7 advanced support
- Dedicated Slack channel
- CI optimization support
- Pre-baked dependencies
