On GitHub, your 2 vCPU job runs for 10 minutes at $0.008 per minute, costing $0.08 total.
On Blacksmith, the same job runs in 5 minutes at $0.004 per minute, costing $0.02 total.
Your total saving is $0.06, or 75% less.
/ Plans
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What’s your runner's architecture?
x64
ARM
What’s your runner's vCPU count?
2
4
8
16
32
Pay-As-You-Go
3K free min/mo.
You get 3,000 free minutes each month on 2 vCPU runners. If you use larger runners, your free minutes scale accordingly. For example, with 4 vCPU runners, you get 1,500 minutes, and with 8 vCPU runners, you get 750 minutes.
$0.004
per min
2x faster hardware
4x faster cache downloads
GitHub Actions observability
Add-on: Docker layer caching (+$0.50/GB)
Add-on: Priority Slack channel support (+$500/mo.)
“The amount we pay an engineer per minute is far higher than any CI minute. Blacksmith helps us save where it really counts."
Jean du Plessis, Director of Engineering
Blacksmith + Ashby
“Blacksmith was super easy to get started with. All we had to do was change a few lines of code, and boom, our CI was taking half the time it had been. Instant win.”
Aaron Norby, Founding Engineer
Blacksmith + Veed
“In tech there's almost always a tradeoff. When improving one metric, another one gets worse. Moving to Blacksmith was one of those rare success moments, where I saw no tradeoffs, only wins.”
Máté Nagy, Staff Software Engineer
Blacksmith + Chroma
“Blacksmith was the clear choice for our CI. It delivered faster builds, lower costs, a great dashboard, and greater reliability than any other provider we tested, with responsive support when we needed it.”
Hammad Bashir, CTO
Blacksmith + Mintlify
“Blacksmith was such a low-effort way for us to instantly benefit from fast CI, allowing us to ship faster. We love Blacksmith.”
Hahnbee Lee, Co-founder
Blacksmith + Clerk
"We were worried about the resources needed to migrate to a different vendor, but switching to Blacksmith was incredibly easy."
Dylan Staley, Software Engineer
/ Startup Program
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Startup discount
We want everyone to benefit from fast CI with Blacksmith.
Under 100 employees
Under $50 million raised
Under 5 years in business
Thank you! You'll be hearing from us.
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/ OSS Program
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OSS
We see GitHub's free plan falling short for many OSS projects. We want to help. Currently supporting Celery, Ladybird, Zen and Limbo.
Actively maintained public repo
Permissive OSS license
Clear community usage
Thank you! You'll be hearing from us.
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/ Support
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Questions? Answers.
If we missed anything, just reach out. We’re happy to help.
Nope. You can sign up without a credit card and get 3,000 free minutes every month, no strings attached.
Do you offer discounts?
Yes, we offer discounts for startups and open source projects. You can find the eligibility details above.
Do I have to pay extra for support?
If you’re on the enterprise plan, you get a dedicated Slack channel and 24/7 advanced support. If you just want Slack support without the full enterprise plan, you can add it as an optional upgrade for $500 a month. Priority email support is automatically included if you're spending at least $500 a month. For everyone else, support is available on a best-effort basis.
Start with 3,000 free minutes per month or book a live demo with our engineers
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