Figment vs Agent.Space: Mac Hosting Compared

Verdict: Figment M-series starts $65/month lower, with no one-Mac cap

Both vendors price in USD, so the comparison is direct. Agent.Space lists one M4 Mac mini (10-core CPU, 16 GB unified memory, 256 GB SSD) at $160/month promotional, $220/month regular, or $1,440/year billed once. Figment M-series starts at $95/month (specific chip, RAM and disk confirmed per quote); Figment physical plans currently collect requests until supply is confirmed.

Two Agent.Space terms shape the decision:

1. One Mac per customer. Their terms cap each account at a single machine. Figment's Managed Mac Team ($999/month: two M-series Macs, two CI runners, team setup, backups, monitoring, one hour monthly support) and Enterprise quotes handle fleets.
2. Annual plan: no refund during the year. The $1,440/year option works out to $120/month, but Agent.Space states "no cancellation or refund during the year." If scope changes mid-year, that money stays spent.

If your workload is Intel-only, Figment's virtual Intel macOS at $29/month (2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 80 GiB disk) is a lower entry point. It runs compatible Intel Mac toolchains, including supported Xcode 26-or-earlier versions. It has no GPU acceleration and no audio, so pick M-series for ARM execution, Metal or visionOS work.

Plan and price comparison

* Figment does not publish a formal annual contract; $1,140 is just 12 × the entry monthly rate. Agent.Space's annual $1,440 price is published on agent.space/mac. Entry-price comparison; exact M-series hardware is confirmed in the Figment quote.

12-month worksheet

• Figment M-series entry: 12 × $95 = $1,140.
• Agent.Space annual: $1,440 one payment ($120/month equivalent).
• Agent.Space promo monthly for 12 months (if still available each month): 12 × $160 = $1,920.
• Agent.Space regular monthly for 12 months: 12 × $220 = $2,640.

At the published rates the Figment entry cost over a year is $300 below the Agent.Space annual plan, $780 below the promotional monthly, and $1,500 below the regular monthly. The Agent.Space annual plan is cheaper than its own monthly rates but still above Figment's entry; its no-refund clause is the material risk if your project ends early.

Hardware, access and toolchain fit

Agent.Space ships machines with Claude Code, Codex and the Agent.Space Mac App pre-installed, with DeskIn for remote desktop. That targets AI coding-agent workflows on a persistent Mac. Billing starts on delivery, and the datacenter region (USA or Europe) is assigned at random — if latency or data residency matters, confirm with them before purchase.

Figment's difference is specific managed CI work: Managed Build Mac ($249/month) includes one M-series Mac, CI setup, backups, monitoring and 30 minutes of monthly support. Managed Mac Team ($999/month) adds a second Mac, two CI runners, team setup and one hour of monthly support. If you already run your own CI, the unmanaged M-series at $95/month is the lower-cost path.

Xcode compatibility: per Apple's Xcode system requirements, Xcode 27.x requires macOS Tahoe 26.6 or later, and Xcode 26.x requires macOS Sequoia 15.6 through macOS Tahoe 26.x. Versions differ — check the exact Xcode/macOS row for your release. Intel cannot run Xcode 27; supported Xcode 26-or-earlier releases can run on Intel macOS, and some iOS simulator runtimes still cover Intel. visionOS requires Apple silicon. Pick Figment M-series or Agent.Space M4 for ARM, Metal or visionOS targets; pick the Figment virtual Intel macOS for Intel-only toolchains.

Performance and reliability: what each source actually shows

Agent.Space's page states "24/7, never sleeps" and offers a "full credit refund" if a machine is not delivered within 3 business days. It does not publish an uptime SLA percentage in the page we checked. Figment also does not publish an uptime SLA percentage. Neither vendor has a published build benchmark or free trial in the sources checked — ask for an evaluation window before committing to an annual plan.

A short acceptance test to run once your machine is live. This is an unexecuted example; adapt for your repo and run it yourself:

set -euo pipefail

PROJECT="YourApp.xcodeproj"   # your file
# Confirm the real scheme name from your own project before running:
xcodebuild -list -project "$PROJECT"
SCHEME="PasteYourSchemeHere"

# Cold build on the host, with a real destination for your target:
time xcodebuild clean build \
  -project "$PROJECT" \
  -scheme "$SCHEME" \
  -destination 'generic/platform=iOS'

# Record wall-clock time only if the build succeeds. A failed build is not a benchmark.

Measure one metric that matters to you (cold build, incremental build, test run, or agent task latency) on each provider's hardware. Do not count failed builds as fast runs.

Agent.Space to Figment migration checklist

Before cancelling Agent.Space:

• Note billing period end; monthly cancels at renewal, annual has no mid-year refund.
• Export Homebrew: brew list --formula > brew-formulas.txt and brew list --cask > brew-casks.txt.
• Export signing certificates with private keys as encrypted .p12 from Keychain Access → My Certificates → Export; store the password separately.
• Copy provisioning profile files from ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/ (they are files, not Keychain exports).
• Review ~/.claude/ and ~/.codex/ for tokens before copying; rotate credentials after transfer.
• Record the names of CI secrets and move values through your secret manager — never dump the shell environment to a plaintext file.
• Record any DeskIn credentials used to reach the machine.
• Download local build artifacts (xcarchives, dSYMs) to external storage.

Provision Figment:

• Request an M-series Mac at /mac-hosting; confirm chip, RAM, disk and delivery.
• Reinstall Homebrew, then xargs brew install < brew-formulas.txt and xargs brew install --cask < brew-casks.txt.
• Reinstall agent CLIs from each tool's official instructions; restore ~/.claude/ and ~/.codex/ configs.
• Import signing cert: security import YourCert.p12 -k ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db.
• Restore profiles to ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/.
• Register a CI runner on the new machine; deregister the old one.
• Update any firewall, artifact-store or CI-service allowlists you actually maintain for the new host.
• Run your acceptance build and compare timings.

Choose the Figment plan

Start a request at /mac-hosting/start.

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