Comment by kylegalbraith
2 days ago
This is exciting to see as arm64 is really a growing space, as we've seen since first launching our Docker image build acceleration [0]. Free for public repos is definitely a strong pull if you can live with some of the quirks.
Even with this, building multi-platform Docker images with fast persistent caching in GitHub Actions will still be slow in the worst case and tedious in the best case.
We've also expanded into GitHub Actions runners, bringing our fast caching and faster compute into the actual runner.
We've done some cool things like making caching and disk access faster using ramdisks, Ceph, and blob storage [1]. We're offering Intel, ARM, and macOS runners at half the cost of what GitHub offers to private repos. We're also focused on accelerating even more builds outside of the runner. [2]
[0] https://depot.dev/products/container-builds
[1] https://depot.dev/blog/introducing-github-actions-ultra-runn...
Your landing and product pages don't mention macOS, only the pricing page, but the docs make it look like the macOS runners are the same price as Github's.
Yeah, this is definitely lacking on our pricing page; thank you for flagging it.
We charge $0.08/minute for macOS runners [0] which has 8 CPUs, 24 GB of memory, and 150 GB of disk. They run with M2 chips, so the closest GitHub-hosted macOS runner is the arm64 one with 6 CPUs at $0.16/minute [1].
It's also worth mentioning that we charge by the minute but track by the second. Whereas GitHub actually rounds up to the closest minute. So a 10-second build on Depot is 10 seconds, and you don't get charged a minute until you've accumulated a minutes worth of build time.
[0] https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/runner-types#macos-run...
[1] https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-your...