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Migrate from Depot to runnerhut

The exact change to move your workflows from Depot — and the change to move back, so you can evaluate without committing.

What Depot does well

Excellent remote Docker build performance with persistent layer cache
Native multi-platform builds without QEMU emulation
Simple, well-designed developer experience

Where we differ

Docker-first — less compelling when your bottleneck is tests, not images
Narrower runner matrix than platforms leading with general-purpose CI

	Depot	runnerhut
EU data residency	Not published	Six EU regions
Remote Docker builders	Yes	Yes
Native multi-arch	Yes	Yes
General CI runners	Yes	Yes
macOS runners	Yes	Yes
Test-suite acceleration	Secondary focus	Primary focus

Compiled from each vendor's public documentation, August 2026.

The migration

yaml

jobs:
  build:
-   runs-on: depot-ubuntu-22.04
+   runs-on: runnerhut-8vcpu-ubuntu-2404
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

One line. Every other line of your workflow is untouched.

And the migration back

We publish this because after BuildJet's shutdown, "what if you disappear" is a fair question. Leaving is the same single line you changed to arrive.

yaml

jobs:
  build:
-   runs-on: runnerhut-8vcpu-ubuntu-2404
+   runs-on: ubuntu-latest

Checklist

Install the runnerhut GitHub App on the repositories you want to move
Change runs-on in one job first and compare timings against the old runner
Add runner.arch to cache keys if you are also moving to arm64
Roll out to the rest of the repository once the comparison looks right
Set a budget cap and concurrency cancellation before going organisation-wide

Your next build could be twice as fast, at half the price

Start free. Migrating away is the same one line, and we publish that diff too.

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Related

GitHub-hosted runnersThe 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.BlacksmithA 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.WarpBuildA 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.NamespaceEphemeral compute for CI and development: drop-in GitHub runners alongside devboxes, sandboxes and ephemeral Kubernetes clusters, with Bazel remote execution and egress filtering.