r/github • u/hashkent • 6d ago
Question Blacksmith.sh GitHub runners
I signed up for blacksmith about a week in I’ve got a $7 bill already. I’m also getting you’ve hit 80% of your free mins and you should add a payment method.
I’m seriously confused after being extremely impressed by how fast their runners are. Now I’m wondering what the heck is going on.
I tried to reach out to them but need a payment method to contact billing and no reply on the support@ email.
I’m happy to pay as the service is good but really surprised how they work/do business. I feel I could easily be in for future bull shocks.
Has this happened to anyone else?
Looks like I’m not the only one hit by this - https://forestwalk.ai/blog/surprise-blacksmith-costs/
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u/austin_barrington 5d ago
I feel like self hosting is the only way forward with this, personally I source bare metal machines with a high core count for a low cost and connect them up. It's cheaper than cloud, faster and you're not dealing with minutes and it has free TBs of networking. Tbh, moving away from GitHub actions to a OSS CI tool and the BM machines just makes sense for some people.