Cachely vs Cachix

Cachely is a managed remote build cache for Nx, Lerna, Turborepo, Gradle, and Bazel. It shares build artifacts between CI runners and developer machines so supported tasks can reuse outputs. Cachely works through the listed remote-cache protocols and supports GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, Buildkite, Woodpecker, Drone, and self-hosted runners. Its dashboard reports cache hit rate, slow tasks, and estimated CI time and cost savings. Setup involves creating a workspace, generating a token, and configuring the build tool; the maker says this takes about five minutes. Tokens are hashed with SHA-256, scoped to one workspace, revocable, and fixed as read-only or read-write. Artifacts are immutable, content-addressed, served over HTTPS from Cloudflare R2, encrypted at rest, and removed after 20 days. Cachely has a free plan with 1 GiB storage and 500K monthly requests. Team costs $29.99 a month or $24.99 a month billed yearly. Enterprise pricing is custom.

Cachix hosts Nix binary caches so teams can share binaries across CI, development, and deployment environments. Its CLI can push binaries, watch a Nix store, and configure Nix to use a cache. The service says its optimizations speed up cache roundtrips, while Cloudflare CDN provides performance and unlimited bandwidth on all plans. When a cache reaches its storage limit, least-recently-used entries are removed; Cachix says it sends a warning email at 85% of that limit. Documentation includes CI guides for GitHub Actions, Buildkite, CircleCI, GitLab CI, Hercules CI, Hydra, and Travis CI. Cachix Deploy uses a pull model to deploy continuously to Nix profiles such as NixOS, nix-darwin, and Home Manager. Teams can assign read or write access, revoke tokens, and require a token for private cache reads and writes; cache entries are signed. Enterprise options include on-premise or self-hosted deployment, SSO, SLA, dedicated premium support, custom deployment, and audit logs. Cachix offers a free plan and a 14-day trial. Listed Starter, Standard, and Pro plans have prices available by contacting Cachix.