Introduction
Why Blacksmith?
Introduction
Why Blacksmith?
The fastest way to run your GitHub Actions
F*ck slow CI
Blacksmith is the fastest and most reliable way to run your GitHub Actions, all at half the cost. And no, that’s not just another marketing gimmick — it’s just raw engineering.
With a 1-line code change, Blacksmith supercharges your GitHub Actions by running them on our fleet of bare metal gaming CPUs, removing any cold start delays, and optimizing caching at every layer, giving you the fastest way to build, test, and deploy to prod money can buy!
How does Blacksmith compare?
| Blacksmith | GitHub | Self-hosted | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performance | Highest single-core performance | ✔ | ||
| Performance | Instant provisioning | ✔ | ||
| Performance | Unlimited concurrency | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Performance | Default co-located dependency caching | ✔ | ||
| Performance | Default Docker pull caching | ✔ | ||
| Performance | Managed Docker layer cache | ✔ | ||
| Cost | Compute costs | low | high | low |
| Cost | Storage costs | low | low | low |
| Cost | Operational costs | low | low | high |
| Reliability | Few to no outages | ✔ | ||
| Security | Default security | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Observability | Default observability across the entire organization | ✔ | ||
| Support | Fast, actually helpful support | ✔ | ||
| Happiness | Developers smile while using | ✔ |
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