Why Blacksmith?
Learn more about why you should use Blacksmith
Our Mission: Accelerate CI, Economically
We’re a team of engineers dedicated to eliminating the frustration of sluggish Continuous Integration (CI) processes. Blacksmith provides a managed solution featuring high-performance runners for GitHub Actions, designed for seamless integration with a one-line code change. Blacksmith provides up to double the speed of GitHub’s hosted runners and cuts costs by over 50%.
How Blacksmith Stands Out
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Next-Gen Performance: We leverage cutting-edge gaming CPUs renowned for their superior single-thread performance, ensuring your CI tasks complete faster than GitHub’s decade-old server CPUs. Learn more about our runners here.
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Cost Efficiency: By utilizing more affordable gaming CPUs, we offer our services at half the price of GitHub’s, making high-speed CI accessible without the premium cost. Discover your potential savings with Blacksmith here.
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Drop-In Replacement: Transitioning to Blacksmith is as simple as changing a single line in your workflow file.
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Enhanced Caching: Our custom
useblacksmith/cache
action quadruples cache interaction speeds to 400MB/s, significantly outpacing GitHub’s cacheactions/cache@v3
. Read more about our cache action here.