Migrate your CI/CD from GitHub Actions to Semaphore
Comparing to GitHub Actions, Semaphore is an efficient plug-and-play CI/CD solution that allows you to focus on delivering features:
- Run 2x faster builds
- See your entire path to production in a single CD view
- Always have CI/CD experts at hand to support you
Build great products at higher velocity
Don’t waste your developers’ time with slow builds
Cut your build times in half using Semaphore’s top-of-market machines and advanced pipeline features. Considering how often developers push code in a month, the ROI of switching to Semaphore is 41:1 (see whitepaper).
Level up developer productivity & happiness
On Semaphore, a graphical workflow builder puts high-performance CI/CD into the hands of every developer. Test insights empower the team to keep the project sustainable, while fast SSH debugging enables fast error recovery in daily work.
Adopt end-to-end Continuous Delivery
On Semaphore, CD is not limited to a series of after-build steps. Features like parameterized promotions and deployment queues give you the power and flexibility to make deploys to any environment completely painless.
Have a partner – an extension of your team
For us, CI/CD is not an afterthought. You can always count on Semaphore as a trusted partner who will go the extra mile in supporting you in your mission to deliver great software, fast.
Compare Semaphore vs. Github Actions
Product type | ||
SaaS | Yes
SaaS with autoscaling resources |
No
Hard limits on parallel jobs depending on plan |
Hybrid: run agents on customer-managed infrastructure | Yes | Yes |
Fully on-premises | No | Yes |
Setup & Maintenance | ||
Graphical pipeline configuration | Yes
Workflow Builder: point-and-click interface to create and edit pipelines |
No |
GitHub support | Yes | Yes |
Bitbucket support | No
Alpha support |
No |
Gitlab support | No
Pending |
No |
No maintenance required for platform software | Yes
Official VMs and Docker images are refreshed weekly, include popular OSS tools out-of-the-box |
No
Jobs must run a Docker container for each language or tool that a project needs |
Command-line interface | Yes
CLI can manage projects and do everything the UI can |
No
CLI limited to viewing workflow results |
Declarative configuration of services | Yes
Supported via CLI |
No |
Machine & Operating System support | ||
Multiple machine types in cloud model | Yes
Wide choice of CPU, memory, and disk space configurations |
No |
Linux | Yes | Yes |
macOS | Yes | Yes
max 5 parallel jobs on standard plans |
ARM | Yes
Supported in self-hosted model |
Yes
Supported in self-hosted model |
Windows | Yes
Supported in self-hosted model |
Yes
Supported in cloud and self-hosted models |
Continuous Integration | ||
Test results reporting and insights | Yes
See which tests passed/failed, find slowest tests to speed up development process. |
No |
Debugging feedback loop | Yes
Fast debugging via SSH access to both running and finished jobs. |
No
No direct SSH access to job environment, only log inspection. |
Continuous Delivery | ||
Manage multiple deployment environments | Yes | Yes |
Multi-stage releases | Yes
Combine automatic steps with manual approval to ensure maximum reliability when delivering to users. |
No |
Automatic and manual promotions | Yes
Chain pipelines together for any CD workflow (blue/green, canary, etc). |
No |
Deployment dashboards | Yes
See which versions of all your applications have been deployed to which environment. |
No |
Parameterized promotions | Yes
Define custom forms to parameterize CD pipelines. |
No |
Deployment queues | Yes
Control which pipelines must run sequentially to prevent conflict and which may run in parallel. |
No |
Performance | ||
Top-of-market performance | Yes
25%-100% faster than GitHub Actions workflows, depending on project |
No |
Autoscaling parallelism | Yes
serverless model |
Yes
with hard limits depending on plan |
Allocate more CPUs and RAM to complex jobs | Yes
change one line of configuration |
No |
Scalable dependency cache | Yes
Yes, 9.6GB upgradeable on request, expires after 30 days |
Yes
10GB hard limit, expires after 7 days |
Built-in artifacts store | Yes | Yes |
Built-in Docker registry | Yes | Yes |
Support | ||
Email-based account and technical support | Yes | Yes |
Video call support | Yes | No |
Support SLAs | Yes | Yes |
Custom solution engineering | Yes | No |
Dedicated customer success manager | Yes | No |
Private Slack channel | Yes | No |