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GitHub-hosted runners alternativesThe default runners built into GitHub Actions. Zero setup, billed per minute against your GitHub plan, with larger runners and native arm64 available on paid tiers.Blacksmith alternativesA YC-backed managed runner platform positioned as a drop-in GitHub Actions replacement, advertising up to 2× faster CI with faster caching and lower cost. Raised a Series B led by Peak XV and is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant.WarpBuild alternativesA hosted runner platform offering Linux, macOS and Windows runners plus bring-your-own-cloud deployments on AWS, GCP and Azure. Advertises roughly 2× faster builds at about half the cost of GitHub-hosted runners.Namespace alternativesEphemeral compute for CI and development: drop-in GitHub runners alongside devboxes, sandboxes and ephemeral Kubernetes clusters, with Bazel remote execution and egress filtering.Ubicloud alternativesAn open-source cloud that runs managed GitHub Actions runners alongside managed Postgres and Kubernetes, competing primarily on price-performance and on being open and portable.Shut downBuildJet alternativesA managed performance-runner service for GitHub Actions that shut down on 31 March 2026. Its migration guidance pointed customers back to GitHub-hosted runners.Depot alternativesBest known for accelerated remote Docker builds, with GitHub Actions runners added alongside. Strongest when container image build time dominates your pipeline.Actions Runner Controller (ARC) alternativesThe open-source Kubernetes operator for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners. Free software, but you operate the cluster, the autoscaling, the images and the caching yourself.