Depot
Depot is a platform designed to significantly speed up Docker image builds and GitHub Actions workflows.
Our verdict
Who should look elsewhere
Cloud & Infrastructure
Pros
- +Significantly reduces Docker build times (up to 55x faster reported)
- +Offers faster and potentially cheaper GitHub Actions runners than native GitHub options
- +Provides robust distributed caching for various build systems, making builds incremental
- +Supports native Intel and Arm architectures, avoiding emulation overhead
- +Easy integration with existing CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows
Cons
- −Cloud & Infrastructure
- −Developer Tools
Key features
- ✓Remote container builds (depot build)
- ✓Native Intel and Arm image support
- ✓Automatic layer caching
- ✓GitHub Actions runners (AWS-hosted
- ✓faster CPUs
- ✓networking
- ✓cache)
- ✓Distributed remote caching for Bazel
- ✓Go
- ✓Gradle
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | $20 | month | 1 user; Community support; Unlimited concurrency |
| Startup | $200 | month | Unlimited users; Everything in developer; Email support |
| Business | — | month | Ability to deploy in your AWS account; Dedicated infrastructure; GPU enabled builds |
Integrations
GitHub
More in DevOps & Monitoring
All →Compare with a peer: Depot vs AlertOps, Depot vs Allma, Depot vs Ansible