# Blacksmith

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/blacksmith
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/blacksmith.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/blacksmith/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://blacksmith.sh
- **Slug:** blacksmith
- **Categories:** developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Offers 2x faster hardware (bare metal gaming CPUs), 4x faster cache downloads (co-located artifacts), 40x faster Docker builds (persistent layers on NVMe), instant microVM provisioning, unlimited concurrency, and a dedicated console for real-time observability and debugging of GitHub Actions. It is also significantly more cost-efficient.
Source: Brand's website (https://blacksmith.sh) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Blacksmith provides a faster, more cost-efficient, and observable alternative to GitHub Actions runners. It aims to accelerate CI/CD pipelines by offering high-performance bare metal hardware, optimized caching, and a dedicated console for pipeline monitoring and debugging.
Source: Brand's website (https://blacksmith.sh) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - A drop-in replacement for GitHub Actions runners that offers accelerated CI/CD with faster hardware
  - enhanced caching
  - and an observability console for monitoring and debugging CI pipelines.
Source: Brand's website (https://blacksmith.sh) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Usage-based, with a free tier of 3,000 minutes per month, and significantly lower costs (e.g., 60-75% less) compared to GitHub Actions runners.
Source: Brand's website (https://blacksmith.sh) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Organizations and development teams leveraging GitHub Actions, seeking to reduce CI/CD costs, improve build and deployment speeds, and gain better visibility into their CI workflows.
Source: Brand's website (https://blacksmith.sh) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - GitHub
Source: Brand's website (https://blacksmith.sh) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.