Figment vs My Remote Mac: Mac Hosting Compared

Verdict: My Remote Mac is cheaper for a bare M4; Figment wins on managed CI and Intel entry

My Remote Mac's entry plan — a dedicated Mac mini M4 (10-core CPU / 10-core GPU) with 16 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD — is published at $85/month, $935/year, or $14/day on myremotemac.com/pricing. Annual prepayment works out to $77.92/month effective. Figment's M-series physical Mac is listed from $95/month; the specific chip, RAM and disk are confirmed in the configuration quote, so a verified like-for-like against an M4 at this entry price is not possible today.

If you want the cheapest dedicated M4 and will manage the machine yourself, My Remote Mac's entry tier is the lower published price. Figment is the better choice in three specific situations:

• You want the lowest absolute entry cost for Intel builds: Figment Virtual Mac at $29/month (virtual Intel macOS, 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 80 GiB disk) or request the i3 Mac at $49/month.
• You want CI setup, backups, monitoring and 30 minutes of monthly support bundled on an M-series machine: Managed Build Mac at $249/month.
• You need two M-series machines plus two CI runners for a team: Managed Mac Team at $999/month.

Start at /mac-hosting/start to request a quote.

Published plans and billing

All My Remote Mac prices are USD, excluding taxes ("Local taxes may apply"), with no setup fees per myremotemac.com/pricing (read 2026-11-10). Daily billing applies to every plan at a flat $14/day; annual prepayment is published for every tier.

*The specific M-series chip, RAM and disk are confirmed in the Figment quote. Figment's published offers are monthly; physical plans collect requests until supply is confirmed.

All My Remote Mac plans include dedicated hardware, root access, public IPv4/IPv6, 24/7 hardware support and a 1 Gbps uplink; 2.5 Gbps (+$20/mo) and 5 Gbps (+$35/mo) are optional.

Daily vs monthly vs annual: a worked worksheet for My Remote Mac

My Remote Mac's $14/day rate has a 24-hour minimum and auto-renews. Breakeven against the $85 monthly entry tier is $85 ÷ $14 = 6.07 days. Against the annual effective rate of $77.92/month, breakeven is $77.92 ÷ $14 = 5.57 days.

If you will run the machine for more than about six days a month, the monthly plan costs less. If you know you need the machine for a full year, annual prepayment saves $85 × 12 − $935 = $85/year on the entry tier.

Entry-price comparison, one year at the lowest published rate per provider:

My Remote Mac's annual prepayment is $205 less over a year than twelve months of Figment's M-series entry rate. This is an entry-price comparison — the M-series chip in the Figment quote is not published up front, so it is not a like-for-like against an M4.

Hardware, access and toolchain fit

My Remote Mac ships dedicated Apple hardware with root access and public IPv4/IPv6. The M4 supports current Apple platforms including visionOS (visionOS development requires Apple silicon). Xcode 26.2 requires macOS Sequoia 15.6 or later per the Xcode 26.2 release notes; confirm your target Xcode and macOS pair against Apple's Xcode system requirements before switching provider.

Figment's $29 Virtual Mac is a virtual Intel macOS environment (Linux/KVM-backed). You can run compatible Intel Mac toolchains on it, including supported Xcode 26 or earlier versions, and build and sign iOS/macOS targets that do not require Apple silicon execution. There is no GPU acceleration, no audio, and inbound public SSH is not implemented — access is via the browser desktop and its terminal; outbound CI agents (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, etc.) connect out to their service normally. Xcode 27 and ARM-native execution, visionOS simulators, and Metal GPU workloads need an Apple silicon machine — choose the Figment M-series tier or stay on My Remote Mac's M4/M4 Pro/M6 line.

Performance: a test to run before you decide

Neither provider's performance has been independently benchmarked in the sources checked for this article. The useful thing to do is time a clean build of your own project on each candidate machine, with identical sources and the same Xcode version. This script is an unexecuted example to adapt:

#!/bin/bash
# Time a clean build of your real project. Fails hard on build error.
set -euo pipefail

PROJECT="${1:?Usage: $0 path/to/MyApp.xcodeproj MyScheme}"
SCHEME="${2:?Usage: $0 path/to/MyApp.xcodeproj MyScheme}"

echo "Host: $(hostname)  Date: $(date -u +%FT%TZ)"
xcodebuild -version
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time xcodebuild \
  -project "$PROJECT" \
  -scheme "$SCHEME" \
  -configuration Release \
  -destination 'generic/platform=iOS' \
  clean build

Run it on the same commit of your repository on each machine. If xcodebuild exits non-zero, the time number is meaningless — fix the build before recording a result. Repeat three times and discard the first (cold caches). Do not accept a vendor's generic benchmark as a substitute for your own code.

Migration from My Remote Mac to Figment

On the My Remote Mac machine, before cancelling:

• Upload build artifacts (.ipa, .app, .dSYM) stored locally to your artifact store (S3, GCS, Azure, your own server).
• Export each signing identity from Keychain Access → File → Export Items. Select the certificate and its private key together; export as .p12 with a strong passphrase; store the passphrase in your CI secret manager, not in a file.
• Download provisioning profiles from developer.apple.com. They are files, not Keychain items.
• Write down the names of every CI environment variable you use. Do not dump values to a plaintext file — they can contain tokens and keys. Rotate the values into your new environment through your secret manager.
• Note your current My Remote Mac billing cycle so you can cancel one day before the next renewal.

On the new Figment machine:

• Request the Figment plan at /mac-hosting/start and confirm chip, RAM, disk, Xcode and macOS in the quote.
• Import .p12 files via Keychain Access on the new machine; place provisioning profiles in ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/ (profiles are not Keychain items).
• Install and register your CI runner (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins).
• Populate secrets through your CI secret manager. Nothing should be transcribed from disk.
• Run the timing script above against your project to baseline a known build.
• If your own CI, artifact store or firewall uses an IP allowlist, add the new machine's outbound IP and remove the My Remote Mac IP once builds pass cleanly. Do not invent allowlists for third-party services that do not publish them.
• Cancel My Remote Mac from the account dashboard before the next renewal.

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