Fast GitHub Actions Runners

Purpose-built hardware for CI runners

Dedicated hardware and Avrea’s runner technology deliver 2x faster builds than GitHub-hosted runners on compute alone.

• Fast CPUs

  AMD EPYC 4585PX processors for Linux x86 runners and Apple M5 Max for macOS and Linux ARM.

  • Avrea
    5,800+
  • Cloud VM
    ~3,200
  • GitHub
    ~2,500

  PassMark single-thread

• NVMe storage

  Local NVMe storage for fast cache restores and artifact access.

  • Avrea
    ~7 GB/s
  • Cloud VM
    ~2 GB/s
  • GitHub
    ~0.7 GB/s

  Sequential read

• 10 Gbps+ network

  Fast transfers for dependencies, containers and build artifacts.

  • Avrea
    10 Gbps+
  • Cloud VM
    ~2 Gbps
  • GitHub
    ~1 Gbps

  Sustained throughput

• Dedicated bare metal

  Each job runs in an isolated VM on Avrea’s dedicated hardware.

  Isolated job VM

  Avrea hardware

Caching at every layer

Builds run 10x faster than on GitHub-hosted runners with cache hits. Avrea caches Git data, packages, Docker layers and build outputs alongside your runners.

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Package cache

7s from 16s

npm, Go, pip, cargo

Docker layer cache

4.5s from 111s

BuildKit type=gha

GitHub Actions cache

<5s from 15s

actions/setup-node

Build cache

13s from 36s

Go, Rust, C++, Bazel, Turbo

Hit rate94%

Storage8 / 25 GB

Artifacts12,483