| Blaze vs Xcode Cloud

Xcode Cloud is Apple's built-in CI/CD service for Apple platforms. Apple bills it in compute-hour tiers.

Blaze runs each job in a fresh VM on Apple Silicon with unlimited minutes at a fixed monthly cost, using GitHub Actions.

Apple bills Xcode Cloud in monthly compute-hour tiers, while Blaze bills per concurrency unit. Compute hours and concurrency units are not equivalent.

* 25 hours included with Apple Developer Program ($99/year)

With Blaze, you get unlimited minutes at a fixed price. No more rationing CI time or surprise bills.

• * Unlimited builds – No more waiting for compute hours to reset or rationing CI runs.
• * A VM for each job – Each job gets a fresh 4-core, 12 GB VM for its duration.
• * GitHub Actions – Use the workflow system you already know, with thousands of community actions.
• * Multiple Xcode versions – Test against different Xcode versions in parallel.
• * Full stack CI – Run iOS, backend, and web builds in the same workflow.

Already using GitHub? Switching to Blaze takes one line:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: blaze/macos-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: xcodebuild -scheme MyApp -sdk iphoneos

If you're migrating from Xcode Cloud, we can help you set up GitHub Actions workflows. Contact us for migration assistance.