Figment vs Adminor: Mac Hosting Compared

Direct verdict

If you need a confirmed M4 chip, Swedish colocation, and are willing to commit to 12 or 36 months, Adminor is a reasonable pick. If you want Apple silicon without a multi-year contract, Figment M-series from $95/month is the lower-commitment entry. If your toolchain is Intel-only (older Xcode, CLI builds, sanity checks), Figment's $29 virtual Intel macOS VM (2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 80 GiB disk) is the cheapest way in — it runs compatible Intel Mac toolchains, including Xcode 26 or earlier on a supported macOS pair, and is a real macOS environment. It is Intel on Linux/KVM, so no Apple silicon, no GPU acceleration, and no audio. This is an entry-price difference versus Adminor's M4 build, not a same-hardware swap.

Start a request at figment.com/mac-hosting/start.

Published plans, contract terms, and the real commitment

Adminor publishes four M4 Mac Mini tiers on its Mac Mini hosting page. The 36-month row is Adminor's advertised cheapest rate; the 12-month row is their shorter contract with a one-time 1,990 SEK setup fee (setup is waived on 36 months). All prices are ex-VAT per the Adminor page.

Bandwidth above the included quota is 0.50 SEK/GB. Adminor does not publish an uptime SLA on that page; ask them in writing before you sign.

Full commitment worksheet — Adminor Entry vs Figment entry

Converted at the November 10, 2026 mid-market rate of 9.79 SEK = $1.00. Treat USD figures as approximate; your invoice will be in SEK plus Swedish VAT at the rate stated in your Adminor offer.

Figment's plan page lists monthly pricing and does not publish a required minimum term; confirm the current terms at /mac-hosting before you assume month-to-month. This is an entry-price comparison. Adminor Entry is a specified 16 GB / 256 GB M4; Figment M-series specific chip, RAM and disk at $95 are not published and are confirmed in the quote. Do not read the two $95 and 1,690 SEK rows as the same hardware.

Hardware, access, and toolchain fit

Adminor supplies physical, dedicated M4 Mac Minis colocated in Sweden. Each machine is listed with PiKVM remote console, a smart PDU for remote power cycling, and IPv4/IPv6. Higher tiers add 10 GbE and BGP. M4 Max and Mac Studio are available by quote.

Figment M-series is Apple silicon on monthly terms. The M-series generation, RAM and disk at the $95 entry are not published and are confirmed in the quote; if you need a specific M4 or M4 Pro for Metal or benchmarking, ask Figment to confirm chip, RAM and disk in writing before paying.

Figment virtual Intel macOS ($29) is an Intel macOS VM on Linux/KVM — useful if your work targets Xcode 26 or earlier on a supported macOS version, CLI-only builds, legacy Intel test runs, or Swift package CI without GPU or audio. Per Apple's Xcode system requirements, Xcode 27 pairs with macOS Tahoe 26.6 or later; Xcode 26 pairs with macOS Sequoia 15.6 through macOS Tahoe 26.x. Check the exact Xcode row before choosing a plan, and pick Apple silicon (Figment M-series or Adminor) for visionOS, Xcode 27, or GPU-bound work.

Managed options. Figment Managed Build Mac ($249) is one M-series Mac with CI setup, backups, monitoring and 30 minutes of monthly support. Managed Mac Team ($999) is two M-series Macs, two CI runners, team setup, backups, monitoring and one hour of monthly support. Adminor's offer is physical hardware with remote access tooling; it does not list CI or build-pipeline setup as part of the plan on the hosting page.

A build-time test to run before signing

No third-party benchmark directly comparing Adminor's M4 Entry and Figment M-series has been published. Both Apple silicon tiers are capable; the question is whether your project is bottlenecked on CPU, SSD or network to your CI. Run your own project on a short evaluation window on each side before committing.

This is an unexecuted reference script, not a benchmark we ran. Replace the placeholders with values from your own workspace. set -euo pipefail makes a failed build exit non-zero so a broken run cannot be scored as a fast run.

set -euo pipefail

# Confirm scheme and destination for your own project:
#   xcodebuild -list -workspace YourApp.xcworkspace
#   xcrun simctl list devices available

WORKSPACE="YourApp.xcworkspace"
SCHEME="YourApp"
DESTINATION='generic/platform=iOS Simulator'

xcodebuild -workspace "$WORKSPACE" -scheme "$SCHEME" \
  -destination "$DESTINATION" -configuration Release clean

/usr/bin/time -p xcodebuild -workspace "$WORKSPACE" -scheme "$SCHEME" \
  -destination "$DESTINATION" -configuration Release build

Record the real time from /usr/bin/time -p. Run it three times per machine, discard the first (cold caches), and compare medians. For network-sensitive steps (archive upload, large artifact fetch) also measure round-trip to your CI control plane and to App Store Connect from each candidate region — latency from Sweden versus a US CI service can add measurable minutes per job.

Migration checklist: Adminor to Figment

Adminor is a contract product. Before you migrate, read your signed agreement for the notice window and any early-termination clause; the public hosting page does not fully state these.

• Note your Adminor contract end date and written notice period.
• Back up ~/.ssh/ and any ~/.ssh/config entries pointing at the Adminor host to a secure location.
• Capture Homebrew state: brew bundle dump --file=~/Brewfile.
• Push every repo: git status clean in each working tree.
• Re-issue signing material through Fastlane Match, or export the signing certificate with its private key as an encrypted .p12 from Keychain Access and download .mobileprovision files from Apple Developer. Provisioning profiles are files on disk, not Keychain items.
• Transfer only the names of required secrets to the new host; restore values through your secret manager. Do not dump the shell environment to a plaintext file — it will leak API keys.
• Update firewall and artifact-store allowlists you actually control to include the new Figment IP. There is no generic App Store Connect or TestFlight IP allowlist to maintain.
• Request a Figment slot at /mac-hosting/start; agree the chip, RAM, disk and evaluation terms in the quote.
• On the new Figment Mac: install Xcode for the version your project requires, brew bundle --file=~/Brewfile, restore secrets, run the full build and test pass.
• Only after a green build on Figment, serve written notice to Adminor per your contract to avoid auto-renewal.

Choose the Figment plan

Adminor wins on published hardware specificity (M4, 16 GB, 256 GB at the entry tier) and Swedish colocation with PiKVM. Figment wins on monthly flexibility, a cheap Intel VM for compatible toolchains, and managed CI work bundled into the Managed Build and Managed Team plans. Start a Figment request at /mac-hosting/start.

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