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Developers, DevOps engineers, and engineering teams looking to speed up GitHub Actions workflows, reduce CI/CD costs, and improve pipeline performance
About Blacksmith
Blacksmith is a high-performance CI/CD platform designed to run GitHub Actions faster and more efficiently. It acts as a drop-in replacement for GitHub runners, enabling developers to accelerate build, test, and deployment workflows without changing their existing setup. By using powerful bare-metal CPUs and optimized infrastructure, Blacksmith delivers significantly faster execution speeds. It also reduces costs by up to 60%, making it a more affordable alternative for teams running large-scale pipelines. With features like instant provisioning and co-located caching, it eliminates delays in job execution. Blacksmith helps developers ship code faster while improving overall workflow performance.
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Starting Price:
$0.004 per GHz per hour
Free Trial:
Free Trial available.
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