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The fastest way to run your GitHub Actions

Why Blacksmith?

Blacksmith

Try the fastest way to run your GitHub Actions in under 5 minutes

Quickstart

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Settings

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Configuration

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Pricing

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		Blacksmith	GitHub	Self-hosted
Performance	Highest single-core performance (2x faster runtime)	✔
Performance	Instant provisioning	✔
Performance	Unlimited concurrency	✔		✔
Performance	Colocated dependency cache (4x faster downloads)	✔		✔
Performance	Managed Docker pull cache	✔
Performance	Managed Docker layer cache (40x faster Docker Builds)	✔
Cost	Compute costs	low	high	low
Cost	Storage costs	low	low	low
Cost	Operational costs	low	low	high
Reliability	Few to no outages	✔
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About

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Introduction

Blacksmith Runners

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About

​How does Blacksmith compare to GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners?

​Too good to be true?

How does Blacksmith compare to GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners?

Too good to be true?