Figment vs Macly: Mac Hosting Compared in 2026

If you want a single Mac or a small CI pool right now, Macly is not currently accepting those orders. Macly's pricing page shows individual orders temporarily unavailable and only bulk orders of 10 or more devices being provisioned. For one developer, two teammates, or a growing fleet, request a Figment M-series Mac from $95/month and move on with the build. The exact chip, RAM and disk for that entry price are confirmed in the quote.

Macly's Published Plan and Billing Terms

Macly lists one plan on macly.io/pricing: a Mac mini M4 with a 10-core CPU, 16 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD. The 512 GB and 1 TB storage options are marked Sold Out. The page offers three billing modes for the 256 GB machine:

The annual prepayment saves $439.78 against twelve monthly bills on the same hardware. That is a real discount, and it is the honest number to put next to any Figment comparison for the same term.

Macly also publishes a 99.9% uptime guarantee and 24/7 email support on its homepage. No setup fee is listed. Terms are described as cancel-anytime; refund specifics for an annual prepayment are not stated on the pricing page and should be confirmed with Macly before paying.

Price Comparison: Macly vs Figment at the Same Term

Figment's M-series starts at $95/month with the specific chip, RAM and disk fixed in the configuration quote. That is an entry price, not a claim of identical hardware to Macly's M4/16/256. For a like-for-like fleet decision, ask Figment for a quote on the exact spec you need and compare both numbers at the same term.

Macly's $1,000.10/year on a 10-device bulk order is lower than 12 × $95 at Figment on the one-line comparison. Figment's included managed CI work — pipeline setup, backups, monitoring, and support hours on the $249 and $999 plans — is the specific difference to weigh against that per-machine number. If you only need raw rentals for 10+ machines and already run your own CI, price Macly's bulk offer first.

Hardware, Access and Xcode Fit

Macly's single published configuration is Apple silicon: M4, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, with admin access advertised via SSH, VNC or AnyDesk, and USB passthrough for device testing. Figment's M-series is also Apple silicon; the exact chip is set in the quote, and access is configured for the plan you buy — ask for SSH, screen sharing, or the specific CI integration you need.

Figment also sells a virtual Intel macOS environment at $29/month (2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 80 GiB disk). It runs macOS on Intel via Linux/KVM, with no GPU acceleration or audio, and access through the browser console. It can run compatible Intel Mac toolchains, including supported Xcode 26 or earlier releases, and can cross-compile and sign targets Intel Xcode supports. It is not an Apple silicon runtime, and it will not run Xcode 27 or ARM-only binaries. Pick M-series for ARM execution, visionOS work, or GPU-bound builds.

For the Xcode/macOS pair, check Apple's Xcode system requirements against your target. Xcode 27 requires Apple silicon; several Xcode 26 point releases run on Intel; visionOS development requires Apple silicon. Confirm the exact version row before provisioning.

A Buyer's Test, Not a Benchmark Claim

Macly posts a 99.9% uptime guarantee and a sub-10-minute setup claim on its site. Figment does not publish an uptime SLA; ask for the current operational terms in writing before you commit to an annual prepay. Rather than trusting either marketing line, time your own project on a trial machine from each provider.

The snippet below is an unexecuted example, not a benchmark. Replace the workspace, scheme and destination with your real project. It stops on failure so a broken build is never counted as a fast run.

# Example only. Use your real project parameters.
time xcodebuild clean build \
  -workspace YourApp.xcworkspace \
  -scheme YourAppScheme \
  -destination 'generic/platform=iOS' \
  CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY="" \
  CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=NO \
  || { echo "Build failed — do not treat this timing as a benchmark"; exit 1; }

Run the same command on three separate machines per provider across a working day. Compare medians, not single runs, and record network and concurrent-job conditions alongside the times.

Migration Checklist from a Macly Fleet to Figment

If you already run a Macly bulk subscription and want to evaluate Figment's Enterprise or Managed Mac Team tier, work through this once per team and once per machine.

Team-level, do once:

1. Export each code-signing certificate from Keychain as an encrypted .p12 with the private key included. Store the password in your team's secret manager, not next to the file.
2. Download provisioning profiles as .mobileprovision files from the Apple Developer portal. Profiles come from Apple, not from Keychain.
3. Record only the required CI secret names. Restore actual values on the new machines through your CI platform's secrets UI or your vault — do not dump the environment to a plaintext file.

Per machine:

4. Order the Figment machine on a plan that matches your macOS and Xcode requirement. Confirm the exact Xcode/macOS pair on the quote.
5. Register the CI runner on GitHub Actions, GitLab, Buildkite or your platform of choice and update the job's runner label.
6. Install signing material via your usual process (Fastlane Match or manual install through Xcode) and run a dry-run archive before cutting traffic over.
7. Update any firewall, VPN or artifact-store allowlists you control to include the new host. Do not invent Apple-side allowlists that do not exist on your account.
8. Run a full pipeline — build, test, archive, sign, upload — on the Figment machine before retiring its Macly counterpart.
9. Cancel the matching Macly seat and confirm any bulk-order cancellation terms with Macly support.

Pick the Figment Plan That Fits

If you can place a 10+ device bulk order and only need the raw hardware at the lowest sticker, Macly's annual rate is worth pricing. If you need one to a few Macs this week, or you want the pipeline configured and supported, start a Figment quote or read more on Figment Mac hosting.

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