Pick Blacksmith if
cI teams who will try Blacksmith for free, then stay on Ubuntu at $0.004 / minute when GitHub-hosted runners are the bill they want to cut.
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Our take
Pick Blacksmith if cI teams who will try Blacksmith for free, then stay on Ubuntu at $0.004 / minute when GitHub-hosted runners are the bill they want to cut. Pick Namespace if cI teams who will stay on Developer at $0 (pay-as-you-go) while they open a first GitHub Actions Overview, then buy Team at $100 / month when they want the included build pack and more cache allowance.
Blacksmith
hosted GitHub Actions runner
Best for
Blacksmith Actions minutes you pay per minute
Namespace Actions minutes and remote boxes you start at $0
Free plan
Blacksmith No free plan
Namespace $0 · pay as you go. Devbox from $0.004 / min. Builds $0.05 / build. Registry / Turbo / Gradle / GitHub Artifacts $0.2 / GB-month
Lowest paid
Blacksmith Ubuntu ARM $0.0025
Namespace Meters that stay on every tile $0.004
Next step up
Blacksmith Ubuntu x64 $0.004
Namespace Business $250
Runs where
Blacksmith Local or hosted
Namespace Local or hosted
Watch out
Blacksmith Try for free is not a forever Free plan
Namespace Developer $0 is pay-as-you-go, not unlimited minutes
Last checked
Blacksmith 2026-10-23 · blacksmith.sh/pricing
Namespace 2026-10-23 · namespace.so/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Namespace if
cI teams who will stay on Developer at $0 (pay-as-you-go) while they open a first GitHub Actions Overview, then buy Team at $100 / month when they want the included build pack and more cache allowance.
Read the Namespace page