Figment vs OpsMac: Mac Hosting Compared in 2026

Verdict: pick by region, hardware and whether you need managed CI

OpsMac publishes a single dedicated Apple silicon product line out of four Asia-Pacific sites (opsmac.com, read 2026-11-10). Its M4 Home Edition — M4 (10-core) / 16 GB / 256 GB NVMe — is $97.1/month or $264.1/quarter ($88.03 effective monthly). If your developers, testers and release targets sit in Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul or Hong Kong and you want a confirmed M4 spec, OpsMac is a reasonable fit.

Figment competes head-to-head on Mac hosting with a wider menu:

• Virtual Intel macOS — $29/month. 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 80 GiB disk. Runs compatible Intel Mac toolchains, including supported Xcode 26 or earlier versions (Apple porting guide). Access is via a browser console; no GPU or audio.
• i3 Mac — $49/month. Physical Intel tier; requests collected until supply is confirmed.
• M-series Mac — from $95/month. Dedicated Apple silicon; exact chip, RAM and disk confirmed at quote. Requests collected until supply is confirmed.
• Managed Build Mac — $249/month. One M-series Mac with CI setup, backups, monitoring and 30 minutes of monthly support.
• Managed Mac Team — $999/month. Two M-series Macs, two CI runners, team setup, backups, monitoring and one hour of monthly support.

The honest trade-off: OpsMac's quarterly commitment on confirmed M4/16/256 hardware is cheaper than Figment's $95 M-series entry (whose chip is confirmed at quote). Figment's advantage is a lower entry point for Intel work ($29 and $49) and a managed CI package that OpsMac does not publish.

Published prices and effective monthly cost

All OpsMac prices are USD, read from opsmac.com. Figment monthly retail is listed; physical tiers are request-based.

Worked calculation — OpsMac M4 Home quarterly vs monthly. $264.1 ÷ 3 = $88.03/month effective, a $9.07/month saving over $97.1 month-to-month, paid three months in advance. Annualised that is 4 × $264.1 = $1,056.40. Figment's M-series from $95 at 12 × $95 = $1,140 is $83.60 higher annually — but Figment's chip/RAM/disk is confirmed at quote, so this is an entry-price comparison, not an equal-hardware comparison.

Daily and weekly notes. OpsMac's daily rate annualises to roughly 30 × $19.4 = $582/month-equivalent; weekly to 4 × $52.4 = $209.60. Only the quarterly term lowers the monthly rate. Figment does not publish a daily or weekly rate; ask in the configuration request if that term matters.

OpsMac also lists SSD add-ons (+1 TB from $2.80/day; +2 TB from $5.60/day) and states billing in USD, with payment via USDT-TRC20 or Visa/Mastercard/Amex through Stripe. If your finance team cannot pay in cryptocurrency, confirm Stripe card checkout is available for your tier before committing.

Hardware, access and toolchain fit

OpsMac M4 Home is a dedicated Apple silicon machine with Xcode preinstalled per the vendor. It covers every current Apple target — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS and visionOS — and runs Xcode 26.2, which requires macOS Sequoia 15.6 or later. The M4 Pro tier adds headroom for large Swift packages, parallel simulators or on-device ML.

Figment Virtual Intel macOS ($29) is a real macOS environment running on Intel virtualization. It compiles and signs Intel-compatible Apple targets using Xcode 26 or earlier. It cannot execute Apple silicon-only toolchains, run visionOS simulators, or do GPU/Neural Engine work. Access is through the browser console and the desktop terminal; outbound CI agents connect from the VM to your service.

Figment i3 Mac ($49) and M-series Mac (from $95) are physical tiers. The i3 is for Intel workflows that need bare-metal rather than a VM. M-series covers ARM-native builds, visionOS, Neural Engine and GPU workloads; the exact chip, RAM and disk are confirmed in the quote.

Figment Managed Build Mac ($249) and Managed Mac Team ($999) are the difference OpsMac does not publish an equivalent of: one or two M-series Macs with CI setup, backups, monitoring and a block of support minutes each month. If you would otherwise pay an engineer to wire up signing, runners and nightly jobs, price that time against the $249 or $999 tier directly.

Verify the exact Xcode/macOS pair you need against Apple's Xcode system requirements before you commit to any tier.

Geography: a measured decision, not a guess

OpsMac's four nodes are all APAC. Figment's region is confirmed in the configuration quote; ask before you buy. Before you cut over, measure — do not assume.

#!/bin/bash
# Round-trip latency sample to a provisioned Mac you can already reach.
# Run from each developer's main working location.
set -euo pipefail
HOST="${1:?Usage: $0 user@hostname}"
echo "RTT sample to $HOST from $(hostname) — $(date -u +%FT%TZ)"
ping -c 20 "${HOST##*@}" | tail -n 2

If you push artifacts to an EU or US registry, also time one representative upload from the provisioned machine before committing to a term. This is an unexecuted example, not a benchmark.

Migration plan from OpsMac to Figment

Before provisioning:

• Inventory the Xcode version, simulators and command-line tools your project requires. Note whether any target is ARM-only (visionOS) or GPU/Neural-Engine dependent — if yes, request an M-series quote, not the $29 VM.
• Export signing certificates from Keychain Access as .p12 with a strong passphrase stored in your secret manager. Keep the private key included in the export.
• Download provisioning profiles from the Apple Developer portal; they are files, not Keychain items.
• Record the names of CI environment variables. Restore the values through your secret manager on the new machine; do not write secrets to a shared plain-text file.
• Check OpsMac's billing cycle start date so your cancellation does not overlap a new paid quarter.

After provisioning:

• Import the .p12 into a dedicated, path-scoped keychain for CI; restore provisioning profiles to ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/.
• Install and register your CI runner (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, etc.).
• Restore secrets from your secret manager into the runner's environment.
• Update only the allowlists you control — your own firewall, artifact store, or CI service IP allowlists — if they are configured.
• Run a clean build of your real project and scheme to confirm the pipeline passes. A failed run is not a benchmark:

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
PROJECT="${1:?Usage: $0 path/to/MyApp.xcodeproj MyScheme}"
SCHEME="${2:?Usage: $0 path/to/MyApp.xcodeproj MyScheme}"
time xcodebuild \
  -project "$PROJECT" \
  -scheme "$SCHEME" \
  -destination "generic/platform=iOS" \
  clean build

• Only after a passing build on Figment, cancel the OpsMac subscription at the end of its paid term.

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