Surprise, Pay $1000: Unexpected Costs When Using Blacksmith
Original: Surprise, Pay $1000
A cautionary post about receiving an unexpected $1,000 bill when using the Blacksmith CI/CD runner service.
The author shares a first-hand account of being hit with a surprise $1,000 charge while using Blacksmith, a high-speed GitHub Actions runner service popular in AI/ML workflows. The post highlights how pay-as-you-go compute pricing can spiral without proper spending caps or usage alerts. It serves as a reminder for developers and founders to guard against runaway cloud costs when integrating third-party CI/CD or GPU services into their pipelines.
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