Blacksmith
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
2warn against
Dec 16, 2025first mention
Aug 17, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“there are a couple and have very good reputation - though I've never used them”
“Blacksmith (https://blacksmith.sh) exists and it works pretty well!”
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“Fast GitHub Actions with Blacksmith”
“though without the need to host the hardware yourself and the potential complexity they comes with that”
Caveats and dissent
“their performance was so spotty and yet I was getting billed for it”
“these companies that are based on offering you a faster or cheaper github actions service are actually the worst of both worlds”
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All comments 13
the recent outages were with their own storage infrastructure https://status.blacksmith.sh/cmsrg61yg09vd0lo9s1eagibm
“blacksmith.sh just raised tens of millions on the core premise that self-hosting CI/CD is hard”
“We use other runners (Blacksmith), and it hasn't helped, still hard down all day long.”
“I'm not sure if blacksmith offers larger runners”
“I am sure Blacksmith is the easy path if you don't want to do any extra work and I am also sure their solution will scale much better”
“their performance was so spotty and yet I was getting billed for it”
“there are a couple and have very good reputation - though I've never used them”
“Yes, I pay for blacksmith rn.”
“Blacksmith (https://blacksmith.sh) exists and it works pretty well!”
“Fast GitHub Actions with Blacksmith”
“though without the need to host the hardware yourself and the potential complexity they comes with that”
“we love Blacksmith!”
“these companies that are based on offering you a faster or cheaper github actions service are actually the worst of both worlds”