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Twice as fast. Half the cost.

Speed up your GitHub Actions with a one-line code change, by running them on high-performance gaming CPUs instead of GitHub's older server hardware

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jobs:
  build:
- runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+ runs-on: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2204|

Up to 2x
faster than GitHub
hosted runners
Over 50%
cheaper than GitHub
hosted runners
Unlimited
concurrency
for runners of all sizes

Build, Test, Deploy, Faster.

See how Blacksmith outperforms GitHub in both performance and cost

High-performance
Compute for CI

We run GitHub Actions on high-performance gaming CPUs that are optimized to run CI workloads faster.
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4x Faster
Colocated Cache

Our cache is colocated with VMs, delivering 4x faster reads and writes for your CI workloads.
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Truly Serverless CI

Thousands of vCPUs for all your test shards, with no cold start delays.
No more waiting for your test suites to start.
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Powerful CI Analytics

Use Blacksmith for out-of-the-box analytics for your GitHub Action pipelines, at no additional cost

Workflow Analytics

Get unprecedented visibility into your costs and runtime trends for your CI suite.

Cache Analytics

Ensure your workflows are caching effectively by monitoring cache hits. Delete unused cache entries right from your dashboard.

Blacksmith is an easy win at any scale. Save money from day 1 and go faster. A rare technical product with no downside

Ted Nyman

Co-founder & CEO of Cased
ex-CTO of GitHub

Blacksmith is amazing! With unlimited concurrency at half the cost, switching from Github Actions is pure upside. Their team's quick and helpful support on slack is the cherry on top.

Luke Zeller

Product & Engineering at Pallet

Blacksmith offered lower cost and faster runners and made it easy to switch and see if those claims were true. Not only were those claims true, they continued to deliver more value with better observability for our CI/CD pipelines. That's allowed us to optimize our build pipelines so we can ship more, faster.

Nick Crohn

Staff Software Engineer at Sibi

Switching to Blacksmith's runners has been a significant upgrade for our development processes at Walnut. They are reliable, significantly faster than GitHub runners, and come at half the cost, helping us optimize both time and budget. The installation and setup were a breeze, making the transition seamless. We highly recommend Blacksmith's server runners to any team looking for a more efficient and cost-effective solution.

Igor Nahary

SRE Lead at Walnut

We switched from GitHub-hosted runners to Blacksmith and saw
decreased build times because of their better machines and caching.

Our CI costs were also cut by half.

Gautam Gupta

Co-Founder at Highbeam

Blacksmith is a no-brainer if you're using GitHub Actions. It took less than 10 mins to integrate and cut our CI time by 35% and our CI costs by 70%.

Greg Bergé

Product Engineer at GitBook

Blacksmith has been great for our developer velocity - it’s much faster than GitHub runners so our team spends much less time waiting for code to build.

Advith Chelikani

Co-Founder at Pylon

Switching to Blacksmith was a quick one-line change and we saw an immediate 30% improvement in CI time. It was a noticeable upgrade and made it fun to push commit-by-commit again

Gabriel P Samson

Founding Engineer at Slope

Since switching to Blacksmith, our build times are over 65% faster, our costs have gone down and our engineers are more productive.

We couldn't be happier!

Alex Bilbie

Head of Engineering at Muzz

Ironclad security
with compliance

Blacksmith runs jobs in isolated virtual machines
directly on bare metal
  • Isolated, ephemeral VMs per job execution
  • No access to GitHub secrets
  • Single-use GitHub access tokens per job execution
  • Memory-safe Go and Rust stack
  • SOC2 Type 2 compliant

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