Depot Has a Free API — Here's How to Build Docker Images 40x Faster

A team lead told me: 'Our Docker builds took 18 minutes in GitHub Actions. Developers lost focus waiting. We switched to Depot — same Dockerfile, 28 seconds.' That's not a typo. 18 minutes → 28 seconds. What Depot Offers for Free Depot free tier: 100 build minutes/month Shared cache — persistent build cache between runs Native multi-platform — build arm64 + amd64 simultaneously Drop-in replacement — works with existing Dockerfiles CI/CD integration — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI No emulation — native arm64 builders (not QEMU) Quick Start # Install CLI curl -L https://depot.dev/install-cli.sh | sh # Login depot login # Build (drop-in docker build replacement) depot build -t myapp:latest . # Multi-platform build depot build --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 -t myapp:latest . # Push to registry depot build -t ghcr.io/myorg/myapp:latest --push . GitHub Actions name : Build and Push on : [ push ] jobs : build : runs-on : ubuntu-latest steps : - uses : actions/checkout@v4 - uses : de