OpenClaw cuts CI costs from $50-60k/day to under $1k with Blacksmith
vincent_koc · x · 2026-11-09
vincentkoc at OpenClaw reports that after a series of changes, the team's CI spend on GitHub Actions has dropped from roughly $50-60k per day to under $1k/day. A screenshot shows Actions usage falling to $1,506.54 on Nov 7, with cumulative spend of $42,156.61 across 378,558 jobs. He credits optimizations built on the hosted CI service Blacksmith and says a full X article and blog post will follow once the savings are verified.
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