Why Apex
Why Apex instead of GitHub-hosted runners
The same workflow file, run somewhere that starts faster, costs half as much, and tells you what happened.
Keep the file, change the runner
GitHub Actions won because the workflow file is good. Nobody wants to rewrite it, and with Apex nobody has to: the same YAML, the same marketplace actions, the same check runs on the pull request.
What changes is everything around the file.
Faster
Jobs start in seconds, not in a queue. Larger runners are one label away and included in the plan. Every step is timed against its own history, so the slow part of a run is named rather than searched for.
Half the price
One subscription instead of per-minute, per-size billing. Across the teams we have modelled, the same workload costs about half of what it does on GitHub-hosted minutes — with the larger runners included rather than surcharged.
It tells you what happened
GitHub says nothing when nothing runs. It does not know which test is flaky. It shows you a log when a run is slow. It cannot tell you how to reproduce a failed job.
Apex answers all four: a verdict for every workflow on every push, flaky tests named as a disagreement at one commit, every step timed against history, and a one-line local repro with secrets named and never carried.
Reversible
Install the App and the next push runs on Apex. Uninstall it and the next push runs on GitHub. There is no migration project because there is no migration.
Same workflows. Half the bill.
Every plan starts with a 10-day trial, without a card.