Availability commitment & remedy 0/3 · No evidence
The support policy explicitly excludes Standard and Premium from uptime SLA credits. Enterprise eligibility is a separate support entitlement.
BL
Provider profile4 resources
Blacksmith
Six explicit macOS image/size combinations plus latest aliases. Current docs identify M4 Apple Silicon and macOS27 public beta.
Reviewed Sep 21, 2026Provider claims · source links included
Company scorecard
Compare companies ↗Company summary of documented Mac-service commitments. Reference plans and category differences remain explicit. Not an entitlement guarantee for every offer; no price, hardware value, benchmark or identity bonus.
Blacksmith Software Inc.Provider-disclosed entity · US listing eligible
First-party entity disclosure; state filing number not corroborated in this audit.
Identity source ↗ · Listing policy & limits ↗SLA protections0/3 · No evidence
CI runners · 0/3 · No evidence
Support0/3 · No evidence
CI runners · 0/3 · No evidence
Incident response & escalation 0/3 · No evidence
The response commitments apply to Premium and Enterprise dashboard tickets; Standard has no included response commitment in this policy.
Support access 0/3 · No evidence
A support contact is established, but included support hours for this reference plan are not. The imported limited-hours grade is withheld.
Security controls0/3 · No evidence
CI runners · 0/3 · No evidence
Account & team access 0/3 · No evidence
Graded partial from first-party documentation (https://www.blacksmith.sh/security).
Isolation & credentials 0/3 · No evidence
No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.
Security documentation 0/3 · No evidence
No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.
Data lifecycle0/3 · No evidence
CI runners · 0/3 · No evidence
Data lifecycle 0/3 · No evidence
No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.
Workflow0/3 · No evidence
CI runners · 0/3 · No evidence
Repository & pull requests 0/3 · No evidence
No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.
Build triggers 0/3 · No evidence
No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.
Signing & publishing 0/3 · No evidence
No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.
Images & Xcode lifecycle 0/3 · No evidence
No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.
Logs, artifacts & debugging 0/3 · No evidence
No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.
Cache & concurrency 0/3 · No evidence
No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.
Billing clarity0/3 · No evidence
CI runners · 0/3 · No evidence
Complete charge structure 0/3 · No evidence
No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.
Cancellation & billing stop 0/3 · No evidence
No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.
Entitlements & purchase terms 0/3 · No evidence
No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.
Company information
Official website ↗Company-wide information is shown here once. Resource-specific support, terms and exceptions are recorded in each listing below. Operator relationships are not independently verified unless the evidence explicitly says so.
Research notes & open questions
Pricing page exposes a starting macOS rate; 12vCPU price requires explicit confirmation. Broad Linux/Windows Firecracker and unlimited-concurrency claims are not applied to Macs. Native billing increment, macOS region scope and live capacity remain unverified. Verified gap resolution (2026-09-24): CI checklist progressed; 2 criteria graded in the gap-resolution wave. Open-questions follow-up (2026-09-24): Still open: ci.cancellation: How does a customer close the account, when do runners stop, and when do usage charges stop?
Availability methods
- Categories
- ci
- Endpoint
- https://status.blacksmith.sh
- Signal
- Service health
- Access
- Public
- Format
- Status webpage
- Limitation
- Public status page exists; extraction of component states from its client-rendered content remains unverified.
A source for checking provider information; this does not establish current machine availability or guaranteed capacity. Last endpoint check: 2026-09-21.
Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Structured observation
Billing model
Needs review- MacOS runner size
- 6 vCPU
- MacOS minutes
- 1
- Credit amount
- 20
- Credit unit
- x64 2vCPU minute
AI-extracted from first-party documentation; source passage retrieved and matched, with a separate evidence/applicability check. Not independently machine-tested. The documented conversion is expressed in native x64 2vCPU-minute credits; no dollar conversion or ISO currency is stated.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
Cancellation policy
- Provider may suspend or terminate immediately
- Yes
- Triggers
- violation of Section 3
- security or integrity necessity
- payment arrears
- Force Majeure Event
AI-extracted from first-party documentation; source passage retrieved and matched, with a separate evidence/applicability check. Not independently machine-tested. Provider-initiated suspension or termination right; this is not a customer cancellation procedure.
Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented
Ci integrations
- Platform
- GitHub Actions
- Eligibility
- GitHub organizations only
- Personal repositories
- No
AI-extracted from first-party documentation; source passage retrieved and matched, with a separate evidence/applicability check. Not independently machine-tested. GitHub organization access is required; personal repositories are excluded.
Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented
Compatibility
Needs review- Supported
- Yes
- Selectors
- xcode-select
- DEVELOPER DIR
AI-extracted from first-party documentation; source passage retrieved and matched, with a separate evidence/applicability check. Not independently machine-tested. The documentation describes switching among installed Xcode versions; it does not specify a separate macOS 15 inventory.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
Compatibility images
Needs review- Image basis
- corresponding GitHub-hosted macOS runner images
AI-extracted from first-party documentation; source passage retrieved and matched, with a separate evidence/applicability check. Not independently machine-tested. Provider documentation states image correspondence but does not independently enumerate every installed package for each offer.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
Credits
Needs review- Amount
- 3,000
- Native unit
- x64 2vCPU minute
- Period
- month
- Scope
- per organization
AI-extracted from first-party documentation; source passage retrieved and matched, with a separate evidence/applicability check. Not independently machine-tested. Free allocation is per organization and per month; the documentation separately states that macOS runners may use the free minutes.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
Enterprise SLA claim
- Availability percent
- 99.9
- Support
- 24/7 priority
- Requires enterprise
- Yes
Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.
Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented
MacOS capacity policy
Needs review- Eligible
- Yes
- Usage
- provider free-minute allocation
AI-extracted from first-party documentation; source passage retrieved and matched, with a separate evidence/applicability check. Not independently machine-tested. This establishes eligibility to consume the free-minute allocation, not a separate paid macOS credit price.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
MacOS starting price
- Amount
- 0.08
- Currency symbol
- $
- Currency
- Not documented
- Unit
- minute
- Size mapping
- not explicitly resolved from fetched UI
Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.
Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented
Trial
- Credit card required
- No
- Context
- try for free
AI-extracted from first-party documentation; source passage retrieved and matched, with a separate evidence/applicability check. Not independently machine-tested. This is stated for the provider's free trial flow, not as a Mac-specific eligibility guarantee.
Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented
THE RESOURCE CATALOG
4 individual listingsFull specifications
blacksmith-12vcpu-macos-15
Public listing; stock and purchase eligibility are not established by this record.
Native price$0.16/ minute
Source changed — needs review
System
CI runnerSpecifications under review
250 GB storage
Software & location
Versions not documented
Region not documented
Availability
Check availability
Confirm before ordering
Estimated bill · default usage
Est. $1,920 / 12 monthsValue 31/100 · price-based
Calculation & assumptions
100 × reference price ÷ (reference price + offering price). Category price comparison; 10 providers. Uses an estimated price, not a complete invoice.
100 × $852 ÷ ($852 + $1,920) = 31/100.
Pricing or billing evidence needs review.
- One user and one concurrent job or machine.
- Excludes optional add-ons, transfer, extra storage and applicable taxes.
- Estimated from the available listed price; unresolved charges and terms remain in the source details.
- Dollar-only source quote interpreted as US dollars for comparison; not a currency conversion.
Reference prices · 10 providers
- bitrise: $86.4
- apple-xcode-cloud: $99
- azure-pipelines: $480
- namespace: $480
- github-actions: $744
- blacksmith: $960
- depot: $960
- warpbuild: $960
- circleci: $1,440
- harness-ci-cloud: $2,160
Not a company quality score. Compare company commitments ↗
Offer value methodology ↗CI: 1,000 minutes/month for 12 months, 10-minute jobs, private repositories, new Apple membership. Machines: one 720-hour allocation. Change usage assumptions ↗
Services & integrations
Service integrations for this offering are still being reviewed. The specifications below retain the available source evidence; confirm required integrations with the provider.
Workload capabilities
- Admin
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Docker
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Graphical desktop
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- IOS simulator
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Nested virtualization
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- SSH
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Xcode build
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
Pricing & commercial terms
Credits
Needs review- Job duration
- 10
- Job duration unit
- minute
- Credits consumed
- 400
- Credit unit
- x64 2vCPU minute
AI-extracted from first-party documentation; source passage retrieved and matched, with a separate evidence/applicability check. Not independently machine-tested. This is an explicit documentation example for a 10-minute job on the supplied 12-vCPU macOS 15 offer; it is not a separately stated purchase price.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
Advertised pricing
Needs review- Amount
- 0.16
- Unit
- minute
- Currency
- USD
- Currency basis
- comparison assumption
- Source currency symbol
- $
Published dollar amount interpreted as US dollars for comparison. The source uses only a dollar sign; this currency assumption is not provider confirmation or an exchange-rate conversion. The public Mac selector quotes 6-vCPU and 12-vCPU M4 compute; Linux free minutes are not applied.
Source ↗Observed Sep 24, 2026 · Provider documented
Hardware & software
Hardware
Needs review- Chip marketing name
- M4
- Architecture
- arm64
- VCPU
- 12
- RAM GB
- 48
- Disk GB
- 250
Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
Image
Needs review- MacOS major
- 15
- Latest alias
- No
- Xcode major versions
- Not documented
- Xcode select
- supported
Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
blacksmith-12vcpu-macos-26
Public listing; stock and purchase eligibility are not established by this record.
Native price$0.16/ minute
Source changed — needs review
System
CI runnerSpecifications under review
250 GB storage
Software & location
Versions not documented
Region not documented
Availability
Check availability
Confirm before ordering
Estimated bill · default usage
Est. $1,920 / 12 monthsValue 31/100 · price-based
Calculation & assumptions
100 × reference price ÷ (reference price + offering price). Category price comparison; 10 providers. Uses an estimated price, not a complete invoice.
100 × $852 ÷ ($852 + $1,920) = 31/100.
Pricing or billing evidence needs review.
- One user and one concurrent job or machine.
- Excludes optional add-ons, transfer, extra storage and applicable taxes.
- Estimated from the available listed price; unresolved charges and terms remain in the source details.
- Dollar-only source quote interpreted as US dollars for comparison; not a currency conversion.
Reference prices · 10 providers
- bitrise: $86.4
- apple-xcode-cloud: $99
- azure-pipelines: $480
- namespace: $480
- github-actions: $744
- blacksmith: $960
- depot: $960
- warpbuild: $960
- circleci: $1,440
- harness-ci-cloud: $2,160
Not a company quality score. Compare company commitments ↗
Offer value methodology ↗CI: 1,000 minutes/month for 12 months, 10-minute jobs, private repositories, new Apple membership. Machines: one 720-hour allocation. Change usage assumptions ↗
Services & integrations
Service integrations for this offering are still being reviewed. The specifications below retain the available source evidence; confirm required integrations with the provider.
Workload capabilities
- Admin
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Docker
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Graphical desktop
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- IOS simulator
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Nested virtualization
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- SSH
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Xcode build
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
Pricing & commercial terms
Advertised pricing
Needs review- Amount
- 0.16
- Unit
- minute
- Currency
- USD
- Currency basis
- comparison assumption
- Source currency symbol
- $
Published dollar amount interpreted as US dollars for comparison. The source uses only a dollar sign; this currency assumption is not provider confirmation or an exchange-rate conversion. The public Mac selector quotes 6-vCPU and 12-vCPU M4 compute; Linux free minutes are not applied.
Source ↗Observed Sep 24, 2026 · Provider documented
Hardware & software
Hardware
Needs review- Chip marketing name
- M4
- Architecture
- arm64
- VCPU
- 12
- RAM GB
- 48
- Disk GB
- 250
Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
Image
Needs review- MacOS major
- 26
- Latest alias
- Yes
- Xcode major versions
- 26
- 27
- Xcode select
- supported
Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15
Public listing; stock and purchase eligibility are not established by this record.
Native price$0.08/ minute
Source changed — needs review
System
CI runnerSpecifications under review
150 GB storage
Software & location
Versions not documented
Region not documented
Availability
Check availability
Confirm before ordering
Estimated bill · default usage
Est. $960 / 12 monthsValue 47/100 · price-based
Calculation & assumptions
100 × reference price ÷ (reference price + offering price). Category price comparison; 10 providers. Uses an estimated price, not a complete invoice.
100 × $852 ÷ ($852 + $960) = 47/100.
Pricing or billing evidence needs review.
- One user and one concurrent job or machine.
- Excludes optional add-ons, transfer, extra storage and applicable taxes.
- Estimated from the available listed price; unresolved charges and terms remain in the source details.
- Dollar-only source quote interpreted as US dollars for comparison; not a currency conversion.
Reference prices · 10 providers
- bitrise: $86.4
- apple-xcode-cloud: $99
- azure-pipelines: $480
- namespace: $480
- github-actions: $744
- blacksmith: $960
- depot: $960
- warpbuild: $960
- circleci: $1,440
- harness-ci-cloud: $2,160
Not a company quality score. Compare company commitments ↗
Offer value methodology ↗CI: 1,000 minutes/month for 12 months, 10-minute jobs, private repositories, new Apple membership. Machines: one 720-hour allocation. Change usage assumptions ↗
Services & integrations
Service integrations for this offering are still being reviewed. The specifications below retain the available source evidence; confirm required integrations with the provider.
Workload capabilities
- Admin
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Docker
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Graphical desktop
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- IOS simulator
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Nested virtualization
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- SSH
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Xcode build
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
Pricing & commercial terms
Credits
Needs review- Job duration
- 10
- Job duration unit
- minute
- Credits consumed
- 200
- Credit unit
- x64 2vCPU minute
AI-extracted from first-party documentation; source passage retrieved and matched, with a separate evidence/applicability check. Not independently machine-tested. This is an explicit documentation example for a 10-minute job on the supplied 6-vCPU macOS 15 offer; it is not a separately stated purchase price.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
Advertised pricing
Needs review- Amount
- 0.08
- Unit
- minute
- Currency
- USD
- Currency basis
- comparison assumption
- Source currency symbol
- $
Published dollar amount interpreted as US dollars for comparison. The source uses only a dollar sign; this currency assumption is not provider confirmation or an exchange-rate conversion. The public Mac selector quotes 6-vCPU and 12-vCPU M4 compute; Linux free minutes are not applied.
Source ↗Observed Sep 24, 2026 · Provider documented
Hardware & software
Hardware
Needs review- Chip marketing name
- M4
- Architecture
- arm64
- VCPU
- 6
- RAM GB
- 24
- Disk GB
- 150
Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
Image
Needs review- MacOS major
- 15
- Latest alias
- No
- Xcode major versions
- Not documented
- Xcode select
- supported
Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26
Public listing; stock and purchase eligibility are not established by this record.
Native price$0.08/ minute
Source changed — needs review
System
CI runnerSpecifications under review
150 GB storage
Software & location
Versions not documented
Region not documented
Availability
Check availability
Confirm before ordering
Estimated bill · default usage
Est. $960 / 12 monthsValue 47/100 · price-based
Calculation & assumptions
100 × reference price ÷ (reference price + offering price). Category price comparison; 10 providers. Uses an estimated price, not a complete invoice.
100 × $852 ÷ ($852 + $960) = 47/100.
Pricing or billing evidence needs review.
- One user and one concurrent job or machine.
- Excludes optional add-ons, transfer, extra storage and applicable taxes.
- Estimated from the available listed price; unresolved charges and terms remain in the source details.
- Dollar-only source quote interpreted as US dollars for comparison; not a currency conversion.
Reference prices · 10 providers
- bitrise: $86.4
- apple-xcode-cloud: $99
- azure-pipelines: $480
- namespace: $480
- github-actions: $744
- blacksmith: $960
- depot: $960
- warpbuild: $960
- circleci: $1,440
- harness-ci-cloud: $2,160
Not a company quality score. Compare company commitments ↗
Offer value methodology ↗CI: 1,000 minutes/month for 12 months, 10-minute jobs, private repositories, new Apple membership. Machines: one 720-hour allocation. Change usage assumptions ↗
Services & integrations
Service integrations for this offering are still being reviewed. The specifications below retain the available source evidence; confirm required integrations with the provider.
Workload capabilities
- Admin
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Docker
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Graphical desktop
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- IOS simulator
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Nested virtualization
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- SSH
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
- Xcode build
- Not verified
No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.
Pricing & commercial terms
Advertised pricing
Needs review- Amount
- 0.08
- Unit
- minute
- Currency
- USD
- Currency basis
- comparison assumption
- Source currency symbol
- $
Published dollar amount interpreted as US dollars for comparison. The source uses only a dollar sign; this currency assumption is not provider confirmation or an exchange-rate conversion. The public Mac selector quotes 6-vCPU and 12-vCPU M4 compute; Linux free minutes are not applied.
Source ↗Observed Sep 24, 2026 · Provider documented
Hardware & software
Hardware
Needs review- Chip marketing name
- M4
- Architecture
- arm64
- VCPU
- 6
- RAM GB
- 24
- Disk GB
- 150
Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
Image
Needs review- MacOS major
- 26
- Latest alias
- Yes
- Xcode major versions
- 26
- 27
- Xcode select
- supported
Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented
Os Xcode
Needs review- MacOS major
- 26
- Xcode installed
- 26
- 27
- Xcode default
- 26
AI-extracted from first-party documentation; source passage retrieved and matched, with a separate evidence/applicability check. Not independently machine-tested. Applies to the macOS 26 image used by this offer; Xcode 27 is also installed.
Source ↗Observed Sep 20, 2026 · Provider documented