Semaphore is 30% faster and 30% cheaper than
Github Actions
- 🔹 2× faster builds and smarter pipelines
- 🔹 Hands-on support from real CI/CD experts
- 🔹 No usage limits, better pricing, no surprises
- 🔹 Built for performance at scale
- 🔹 Get time back to build what matters
GitHub Actions vs. Semaphore: key differences
| GitHub Actions pain 😖 | Semaphore gain 🚀 |
|---|---|
| 🛠️ Hidden complexity in workflows | ✅ Fast, optimized pipelines |
| ⏳ Slow builds and job limits | ⚡ Smart parallelism and flexible infrastructure |
| 💥 Performance bottlenecks under load | 📁 CI/CD as code with real-time debugging |
| 🔍 Limited observability and debugging | 🏗️ Auto-scaling, hybrid cloud or self-hosted |
| ❌ Hard to scale across teams | 🤝 Human support that helps you improve |
Why teams choose Semaphore over GitHub Actions
Spend less time fighting CI, more time shipping code.
Keep your developers focused on product, not CI problems.
Consistent, scalable CI/CD for any team size.
Built for performance at any scale
GitHub Actions may work for simple tasks—but once you need performance, scale, and real support, Semaphore takes over.
- ✔️ No limits on parallelism or job queues
- ✔️ Scale pipelines without rewriting workflows
- ✔️ Proactive support from CI/CD experts
Faster builds, better dev experience
Semaphore is optimized for speed and clarity. Teams switching from GitHub Actions ship faster and spend less time debugging builds.
- ✔️ Optimized parallel test execution
- ✔️ Workflow visibility and real-time debugging
- ✔️ Predictable performance under load
„It’s cheap, it’s easy to understand, and the support team is quick to assist if you need help. Honestly, after trying GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Octopus, Jenkins, and more, this clearly stands out to me as the better option.“

Fredrik August Madsen-Malmo
Head of DevOps at Kvist
One setup, multiple environments, total control
Avoid inconsistent setups across projects. Semaphore brings structure, flexibility, and control to teams working across any environment.
- ✔️ CI/CD as versioned code
- ✔️ Runs across cloud, hybrid, and self-hosted
- ✔️ Fine-grained permission control
„Semaphore is an incredibly easy-to-use CI/CD platform. Integrating my Ruby on Rails applications to use it is always very easy to do. Their platform has an incredibly good-looking UI, and documentation is also very well written.“

Lorenzo Zabot
Backend Engineer at Vox Group
🔍 Compare Semaphore Cloud and Community Edition 🆚 GitHub Actions
Full feature comparison
- Funktionen
- Produkttyp
- SaaS
- Hybrid: Führen Sie Agenten auf kundenverwalteter Infrastruktur aus
- Vollständig vor Ort
- Open Source
- Funktionen
- Grafische Pipeline-Konfiguration
- GitHub-Unterstützung
- Bitbucket-Unterstützung
- GitLab-Unterstützung
- Eingebaute REST-Berichte
- Eingebaute Erkennung instabiler Tests
- Monorepo-Unterstützung
- Debugging-Feedback-Schleife
- Befehlszeilenschnittstelle
- Deklarative Konfiguration von Diensten
- Unterstützung für Maschinen & Betriebssysteme
- Mehrere Maschinentypen im Cloud-Modell
- Linux
- macOS
- ARM
- Windows
- Kontinuierliche Bereitstellung
- Verwalten Sie mehrere Bereitstellungsumgebungen
- Mehrstufige Releases
- Automatische und manuelle Promotionen
- Bereitstellungs-Dashboards
- Parametrisierte Promotionen
- Bereitstellungs-Warteschlangen
- Leistung
- Leistung auf höchstem Marktstandard
- Automatische Skalierung der Parallelität
- Weisen Sie komplexen Jobs mehr CPUs und RAM zu
- Skalierbarer Abhängigkeits-Cache
- Eingebauter Artefaktspeicher
- Eingebautes Docker-Registry
- Sicherheit
- Laufzeitisolierung
- IP-Zulassungsliste
- Prüfprotokolle
- ISO 27001-Zertifikat
- SOC 2-Zertifikat
- Rollenbasierter Zugriff
- Okta / SAML für LDAP-Integration
- Support
- E-Mail-basierter Konto- und technischer Support
- Videoanruf-Support
- Support-SLAs
- Individuelle Lösungsentwicklung
- Dedizierter Customer Success Manager
- Privater Slack-Kanal
- Community-Support über Discord
