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Depot
DevOps · depot.dev
Overview
Depot is a hosted build acceleration platform that runs a remote, optimized BuildKit service with fast persistent NVMe-backed caching, replacing local or CI Docker builds with a drop-in CLI. It builds Intel, Arm, and multi-architecture images natively without emulation, and also offers faster GitHub Actions runners and its own Depot CI at roughly half the cost of GitHub-hosted runners. Users report build speedups ranging from a few times faster up to 40-55x, typically requiring only a one-line change in their pipeline.
The problem Depot solves
Container image builds and CI pipelines are frequently the slowest, most expensive part of shipping software, with long build times, ineffective caching across CI runs, and slow multi-architecture builds hampered by emulation. Depot offloads builds to a remote, cache-optimized BuildKit service and provides faster CI runners, cutting build times and CI cost while requiring almost no change to existing workflows.
Decision context
Use these points to test whether the product fits your operation, not just whether it has a long feature list.
- Published starting price: $20 per month. Confirm user, usage, and feature limits for the plan you would actually buy.
- Deployment: cloud. Check security, data-residency, and access requirements for every team that will use it.
- Verified integrations include GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Buildkite, Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines. Validate sync direction and plan limits for the connections that matter.
- This record was last checked on 7/24/2026; pricing and features can change.
How to evaluate Depot
A listing helps create a shortlist; a trial with the team’s real workflow decides whether the tool fits. Use this reading with the structured facts and confirm changes with the vendor.
Workflow fit
The record describes it as a fit for Engineering teams whose Docker/container builds are a CI bottleneck and want faster builds with minimal migration effort, Teams needing native multi-architecture (Intel + Arm) image builds without slow QEMU emulation, Startups and scale-ups looking to cut GitHub Actions runner cost while speeding up pipelines. Check that this context matches the volume, roles, and processes your team needs it to support.
Pilot questions
- Can Depot complete the critical workflow without manual work outside the product?
- Do the recorded connections (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Buildkite) support the sync direction, permissions, and volume we need?
- What user, usage, storage, support, or security limits appear after the headline starting price?
Evidence and freshness
This record was checked on 7/24/2026. That date tells you when the record was reviewed, not that the vendor has left its terms unchanged since then.
Best for
- Engineering teams whose Docker/container builds are a CI bottleneck and want faster builds with minimal migration effort
- Teams needing native multi-architecture (Intel + Arm) image builds without slow QEMU emulation
- Startups and scale-ups looking to cut GitHub Actions runner cost while speeding up pipelines
Not a fit if
- Organizations that require builds to run fully on self-managed, air-gapped, or on-prem infrastructure rather than a managed cloud service
- Teams wanting a broad observability/monitoring suite, incident management, or APM rather than a focused build-acceleration tool
Why it’s listed
- Solves a real, expensive DevOps pain point (slow Docker builds and costly CI) with measurable speedups and a near-zero-effort integration path
- Broad support across every major CI system (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Buildkite, Jenkins, and more) makes it relevant to most B2B engineering teams
- SOC 2 attested and used by known companies (PostHog, Wistia, Windmill, Better Stack), signaling production readiness despite being young
Pricing
Developer
$20 per monthEntry plan for individual developers, with included build minutes and usage billed monthly after.
- 500 Docker build-minutes included
- 2,000 GitHub Actions minutes included
- 2,000 Depot CI minutes included
- 1 user
- 7-day data retention
- Community support; overage $0.004/min
Startup
$200 per monthFor growing teams needing more included capacity, unlimited users, and access controls.
- 5,000 Docker build-minutes included
- 20,000 GitHub Actions minutes included
- 20,000 Depot CI minutes included
- Unlimited users with RBAC
- 30-day data retention
- Email support, usage caps, Depot Registry
Business
Custom pricingCustom enterprise plan with dedicated infrastructure and advanced compliance and security controls.
- Dedicated build infrastructure
- GPU-enabled builds
- Docker build autoscaling
- SSO with SAML and SCIM
- Advanced compliance controls
Features
Integrations
Security & compliance
Pros & cons
Pros
- Dramatic build-speed improvements (commonly reported multiples up to 40-55x) via remote BuildKit and shared persistent caching
- Extremely easy adoption, often a single-line change to an existing Dockerfile build or CI workflow
- Exceptional, proactive support directly from the founders and engineers, including help optimizing Dockerfiles
- Native Intel/Arm/multi-arch builds without emulation, plus per-second billing that avoids per-minute rounding
Cons
- Very thin third-party review presence (only ~3 G2 reviews), so independent validation at scale is limited
- Early-stage edge cases have been reported (e.g., builds failing on git submodule changes), though the team resolved them
- Introduces a dependency on a third-party managed build service, a concern for teams wary of vendor lock-in or external build infrastructure
- Usage-based overage costs can accumulate for teams with very high build volume beyond included minutes
What we found
Sentiment is strongly positive but the sample is thin: G2 shows 5.0 from only 3 reviews, corroborated by Product Hunt and community threads praising huge build-speed gains, one-line integration, and unusually hands-on founder support.
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