# Avrea

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Avrea and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Avrea as a fast, reliable, drop-in alternative to GitHub Actions for running CI jobs, with predictable billing compared to GitHub's bills.

## Why people recommend it

- Very fast CI runs (3 comments): "New player, but insanely fast. You can even move your existing runners over with one line, so pretty easy to try." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313413)) "serious game changer. Our test runs could take up 6minutes, we got them down to below 1 minute." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919208)) "insanely fast and reliable" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313400))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Blacksmith runners](https://hackerapproved.com/p/blacksmith.md): 22 recommend
- [WarpBuild](https://hackerapproved.com/p/warpbuild.md): 12 recommend
- [GitHub Actions self-hosted runners](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-actions-self-hosted-runners.md): 9 recommend
- [Namespace](https://hackerapproved.com/p/namespace.md): 8 recommend
- [Forgejo Runner](https://hackerapproved.com/p/forgejo-runner.md): 8 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Avrea", https://hackerapproved.com/p/avrea/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).