Choose actuated if
You want jobs on servers you own or rent, and you have a team to buy, patch, and run them.
Runzivo vs actuated vs Blacksmith
Firecracker isolation. None of the servers.
Runzivo is designed to run every GitHub Actions job in a fresh Firecracker microVM on dedicated hosts we operate, then destroy it when the job ends. You change one runs-on label. We handle the rest.
Short answer
Pick by who you want running servers.
Choose Blacksmith if
You want a managed service available today, with runners in the United States or Europe and built-in caching.
Choose Runzivo if
You want a managed service with jobs in Canada and no servers to run, and you can join Early Access.
Side by side
How the three services differ.
Runzivo entries describe the planned V1 design. Competitor entries come from their public pages, checked on .
| Topic | Runzivo | actuated | Blacksmith |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who runs the servers | Runzivo. You install nothing on your own hardware. | You. You bring the servers and install the actuated agent. actuated runs the control plane. | Blacksmith. |
| Hardware | Dedicated bare-metal hosts that Runzivo operates. | Your own bare-metal or cloud servers. | Bare-metal servers with high single-core gaming CPUs. |
| Job isolation | Designed for one ephemeral Firecracker microVM per job, destroyed when the job ends. | One Firecracker microVM per job. | Ephemeral Firecracker microVMs. |
| CI systems | GitHub Actions. GitLab is not part of V1. | GitHub Actions and GitLab CI. | GitHub Actions. |
| Operating systems and CPUs | Ubuntu on x64. Arm64, Windows, and macOS are not part of V1. | Linux on x86-64 and Arm64. | Linux on x64 and Arm64, Windows, and Apple Silicon macOS. |
| Where jobs run | Canada, on dedicated bare-metal hosts. No hyperscaler. | Any country you choose, on your own hardware, a bare-metal provider, or a hyperscaler such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure. | United States, the Netherlands, and Germany, on its own bare-metal fleet. No hyperscaler. |
| Pricing model | Planned Free allowance of 3,000 2-vCPU equivalent minutes per organization, per month. Paid usage is planned after Early Access. | Flat monthly subscription by concurrent builds. You also pay for your servers. | Per-minute usage with a monthly free allowance. |
| Setup | Install the GitHub App on selected repositories and change runs-on. | Provision servers, install the agent, connect GitHub, and change runs-on. | Install the GitHub App and change runs-on. |
| Beyond the runner | Cache acceleration and customer-facing analytics are not part of V1. | Build insights and server status in a dashboard. | Co-located caching, Docker layer caching, and a CI console. |
| Availability | Early Access. Not available for general use yet. | Available now. | Available now. |
What this page leaves out
No performance or savings claims yet.
actuated and Blacksmith publish their own speed and cost figures. Runzivo does not compare performance or savings until repeatable benchmarks on its own hosts support a number. We will publish the method with the results.
Sources: actuated, actuated server options, Blacksmith, Blacksmith runner types and regions, Blacksmith hardware. actuated is a product of OpenFaaS Ltd. Product names belong to their owners. Tell us at hello@runzivo.dev if an entry is out of date.