--- title: Nx Agents, now 4x faster & 30% cheaper than GitHub Actions description: Nx Cloud has shipped two major CI performance improvements: optimized resource classes with more RAM per agent, and Continuous Assignment — a new task... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nx-agents-now-4x-faster-30-cheaper-than-github-actions-iffrgfvum twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Nx Agents, now 4x faster & 30% cheaper than GitHub Actions | daily.dev og:description: Nx Cloud has shipped two major CI performance improvements: optimized resource classes with more RAM per agent, and Continuous Assignment — a new task... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nx-agents-now-4x-faster-30-cheaper-than-github-actions-iffrgfvum og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iffrgFvuM.png og:image:alt: Nx Agents, now 4x faster & 30% cheaper than GitHub Actions og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Nx Agents, now 4x faster & 30% cheaper than GitHub Actions **[Nx](https://daily.dev/sources/nx)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Nx Cloud has shipped two major CI performance improvements: optimized resource classes with more RAM per agent, and Continuous Assignment — a new task distribution model that feeds agents new work as soon as parallelism is available, eliminating idle gaps between task batches. Benchmarked against a standard GitHub Actions setup on a large monorepo running linting, typechecking, tests, builds, and e2e, wall-clock time dropped 74% (from 48:15 to 12:34), cost per run fell 30% (from $0.661 to $0.461), and VM minutes used fell 24%. The architectural advantage stems from Nx having full visibility into the task graph, enabling dynamic packing and continuous loading of agents — something standard CI platforms cannot replicate without tight integration between the build tool and CI platform. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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