Figment vs myusmini: Mac Hosting Compared

Direct verdict

If your build only needs a single ARM Mac mini and you are happy managing the box yourself, myusmini is a straightforward pick: M1/8/256 at $79, M4/16/256 at $119 and M6/16/256 at $149 per month, no deposit, monthly billing. If you want CI set up for you — runner installed, backups, monitoring and support — Figment's Managed Build Mac at $249/month is the direct answer. If you only need a cheap Intel macOS worker for lint, scripting, or Xcode 26-or-earlier builds, Figment's virtual Intel macOS at $29/month has no equivalent on the myusmini list.

Start a configuration at /mac-hosting/start.

Published prices side by side

Both pricing pages were read on 2026-11-10. myusmini publishes its tiers on myusmini.com; Figment's offers are listed below with the plan each maps to.

The $95 entry is a lower starting price than myusmini's $119 M4, but it is not a verified M4/16 GB configuration — the exact chip, RAM and disk are confirmed in the quote. Treat it as an entry-cost figure, not an equal-hardware swap.

myusmini's refund window is 72 hours from activation if the machine cannot function because of a provider error; early self-termination of a prepaid month is not refunded. Figment does not advertise a trial; ask for an evaluation session before purchase.

Hardware, access and toolchain fit

myusmini documents remote access via SSH, Tailscale and mosh, with a note that mosh helps if your latency to the US is around 220 ms (myusmini.com). That is useful if you drive builds over SSH from a laptop or a self-hosted runner.

Figment's $29 plan is a virtual Intel macOS environment, not a jumpbox to another host. You can install a compatible Intel Xcode toolchain, build macOS universal binaries, cross-compile arm64 iOS device archives and sign them, so long as the Xcode release supports Intel. Apple restricts Intel to Xcode 26 or earlier (Apple system requirements); Xcode 27 and any visionOS simulator work need Apple silicon. The VM is delivered with no GPU acceleration and no audio; interactive use is through the browser console and outbound CI runner connections.

For physical hosts (Figment i3, Figment M-series, Managed Build, Managed Team), access method and macOS image are confirmed in the quote.

A short guide to Xcode/macOS pairs on the Apple page:

• Xcode 16.x — minimum macOS Sonoma 14.5, runs on supported Intel.
• Xcode 26.0 / 26.1 / 26.2 / 26.3 — minimum macOS Sequoia 15.6, runs on supported Intel.
• Xcode 26.4.1 / 26.5 / 26.6 — minimum macOS Tahoe 26.2; check the exact Intel support row on Apple's page.
• Xcode 27.x — minimum macOS Tahoe 26.6, Apple silicon only.

Verify the exact Xcode/macOS pair you plan to run at developer.apple.com/xcode/system-requirements.

Worked cost worksheet: moving a single M4 workload

This replaces generic CI boilerplate. Pick the row that matches your build.

Scenario A — you currently pay myusmini M4 at $119/month and want ARM parity with managed CI:

• Figment Managed Build Mac: $249/month.
• Monthly delta: $249 − $119 = +$130/month for the managed CI inclusions (runner setup, backups, monitoring, 30 minutes of support).
• Break-even in your own time: if setting up and maintaining the runner yourself costs more than ~1.3 hours of your time per month at $100/h, Managed Build is cheaper on a fully-loaded basis.

Scenario B — you currently pay myusmini M1 at $79/month for light scripting and want cheaper Intel capacity for a lint/build worker:

• Figment virtual Intel macOS: $29/month.
• Monthly delta: $29 − $79 = −$50/month, provided your toolchain stays on Xcode 26 or earlier and does not need ARM execution or GPU.

Scenario C — ARM self-managed on either side:

• myusmini M1 $79 vs Figment M-series from $95. Entry gap is $95 − $79 = $16/month, with an unspecified Figment M-series chip; ask for the exact spec in the Figment quote before deciding.

There is no published daily or two-week rate on either pricing page, so part-month usage still costs a full month on both sides.

Switching from myusmini to Figment, step by step

1. Archive your project tree. On the myusmini box: tar -czf project_$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ).tar.gz ~/projects and copy via scp or rsync to the new host.
2. Export signing material safely. In Keychain Access → My Certificates, select the Developer ID or Apple Distribution certificate and export the identity (certificate + private key) as an encrypted .p12. Choose a strong passphrase; send the passphrase through your team's secret manager, not alongside the file. Developer ID Application and Developer ID Installer are separate identities — export each one you use.
3. Collect provisioning profiles as files. Profiles are .mobileprovision files from the Apple Developer portal; they are not stored in Keychain and are not exported from it.
4. Transfer secret names only. Write down the list of CI environment variable names your pipeline reads. Re-enter the values in your CI service's secret store on the new host. Do not env > secrets.txt; that file will contain tokens.
5. Re-register runners. Remove the GitHub Actions / Buildkite / CircleCI agent from the myusmini machine, then register a fresh agent on the Figment host once provisioned. Follow the current GitHub self-hosted runner security guidance if you run untrusted PRs.
6. Update allowlists you control. If your artifact store, deploy target or notification endpoint restricts by IP, add the new host's address there. There is no Apple-published App Store Connect IP range to allowlist; do not invent one.
7. Reproduce one real build. Run your normal build command on the Figment host with set -euo pipefail so a non-zero exit stops the job. This is example wiring, not a benchmark — a failed invocation must never be counted as a fast run.
8. Cancel myusmini auto-renewal in your account before the next billing date; prepaid months are not refunded outside the 72-hour error window.

Which Figment plan to request

Request a configuration at /mac-hosting/start. Tell the team the Xcode version, macOS version and access method you need, and the spec is confirmed in the quote before you pay.

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