Namespace vs Blacksmith looks like a price win for Namespace at $0.002 a minute against $0.004, until you notice that Namespace's 2 vCPU shape carries 4 GB of RAM and Blacksmith's carries 8 GB. Match the memory and they are level at $0.004 prepaid, so the real decision is prepaid commitment and cache volumes against a standing free tier and a simpler bill.

Published Linux rates lined up by memory rather than core count, read 20 September 2026. Namespace pairs 2 GB per vCPU, Blacksmith pairs 4 GB.

Namespace sells compute across devboxes, builds and GitHub Actions runners, with a label grammar rather than a fixed size list: nscloud-{os}-{arch}-{shape} , with suffixes that attach a cache volume or extra features.…