Faster GitHub Actions runners with AI agents that continuously improve your build speeds
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Powering CI for startups and fast-moving engineering teams.
Real teams shipping faster CI with StarSling agents.
Abhi Aiyer
Co-founder & CTO, Mastra
HUGE props to @yonasbe and @dbworku for helping us speed up our CI! PLUS the starsling bot continually finding optimizations for us. At Mastra we move so fast that the bottleneck becomes reviews and CI. Time spent compounds and @starslingdev helps you realize how much time you're losing.
Beka
Founder, Better Auth
We've been using @starslingdev for better auth CI :> it's been saving us countless hours! both with fast runners and their agent optimizing our CI. huge congrats on the launch!!
AI made coding 10x faster. CI hasn't kept up, until now.
Fast on day one, faster as time goes on.
5th Gen AMD EPYC processors with caching that's 4X faster than GitHub-hosted runners
AI agents deep-scan your workflow runs and ship optimization PRs
4 vCPU Linux runners with 16 GB RAM at usage-based pricing
Pull Requests merged by customers. StarSling agents analyze and optimize your CI automatically.
Mergedci: shard E2E kitchen-sink across 3 parallel jobs
Mergedchore(ci): optimize Playwright browser installs in E2E
Mergedchore: fix turbo cache configuration in ci
Mergedtest(chroma): reduce fixed 2000ms waitForIndexing sleep to 200ms and add Docker healthcheck
Mergedtest(couchbase): optimize vector test suite by replacing fixed sleeps with bucket.ping()
Drop-in replacement for ubuntu-latest.
Install the StarSling GitHub app then swap ubuntu-latest for starsling-ubuntu-24.04.
AI-powered optimizations included with every minute.
2,000 minutes your first month
Discount
33% cheaper than GitHub Actions
Volume discounts available
| Runner | GitHub | StarSling |
|---|---|---|
| 2 vCPU / 8 GB | $0.006/min | $0.004/min33% less |
| 4 vCPU / 16 GB | $0.012/min | $0.008/min33% less |
| 8 vCPU / 32 GB | $0.022/min | $0.016/min27% less |
| 16 vCPU / 64 GB | $0.042/min | $0.032/min24% less |
Everything you need to evaluate StarSling for your CI.
StarSling is an AI-native DevOps platform for developers that ship. StarSling Runners are self-driving CI: a drop-in replacement for ubuntu-latest and ubuntu-24.04 that makes GitHub Actions 80% faster and up to 33% cheaper, with AI agents that continuously analyze your workflows and ship optimization PRs.
Self-driving CI is CI that improves itself. Beyond running your workflows on faster hardware, AI agents continuously analyze your jobs, run logs, and machine telemetry, then open pull requests that optimize your pipeline: caching, parallelization, dependency installs, test sharding, and workflow structure. Traditional CI is static; self-driving CI gets faster the longer you use it.
Three things move the needle: faster hardware, better caching, and removing redundant work. Swap ubuntu-latest for a runner with stronger CPUs and faster cache (StarSling Runners are 80% faster end-to-end), then let AI agents find dead steps and parallelization opportunities your team hasn't had time to fix.
Usually the runner. GitHub-hosted ubuntu-latest runs on older shared hardware with a slower cache service, so even simple builds spend time waiting on CPU and on cache fetches. Switching to faster CPUs and a regional cache (StarSling Runners do both) typically cuts wall-clock time in half before any workflow optimization.
Yes. Change runs-on: ubuntu-latest (or ubuntu-24.04) to runs-on: starsling-ubuntu-24.04 in your GitHub Actions workflow files. No other config changes required.
$0.008 per minute for 4 vCPU Linux runners with 16 GB RAM, 33% cheaper than GitHub Actions' $0.012/min. Queue time is never billed. New accounts get 2,000 free minutes the first month.
After installing the StarSling GitHub App, AI agents continuously analyze your workflows, jobs, run logs, and machine telemetry, then open pull requests that optimize your setup: cache fixes, faster install strategies, build parallelization, test sharding, and workflow restructuring. You review and merge.
Coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) push PR volume up several-fold, which compounds CI cost and queue times fast. The right fit is a runner with unlimited concurrency, continuous AI optimization (so the pipeline gets faster as PR volume grows), and per-minute pricing with no seat fees. StarSling Runners are built for this pattern.
Yes, but failed jobs typically exit quickly so the cost is minimal. Queue time is never billed, and the 2,000 free minutes give you room to experiment.
Each job runs on a fresh ephemeral runner that's destroyed after the job completes. Secrets pass directly from GitHub to your job and are never stored by StarSling.
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