Figment vs RentCC: Mac Hosting Compared in 2026

If you want an Apple silicon Mac mini in APAC and you specifically need a Korean or Australian residential IP, RentCC's $119/month M4 is a direct fit (rentcc.app). If you want the lowest-cost Mac hosting that still builds, signs and ships iOS/macOS apps on supported toolchains, start with Figment: a $29 virtual Intel macOS for Intel-compatible Xcode work, or an M-series machine from $95/month for Apple silicon builds. Request a configuration at /mac-hosting/start.

Figment competes head-on with RentCC on Mac rental. The two differences that actually matter for your decision are region (RentCC's selling point is Korea/Australia residential IPs) and chip tier at a given price (RentCC publishes an exact M4/16/256 configuration; Figment's $95 entry is an M-series tier whose exact chip, RAM and disk are confirmed on the quote).

Published prices and 12-month totals

RentCC publishes monthly, quarterly and annual billing on rentcc.app. Figment's M-series entry is $95/month; the $29 virtual Intel macOS is a separate virtualized product, not Apple silicon.

RentCC's 10% service fee is calculated on combined device and subscription costs and is described on rentcc.app as "fully waived for the first batch." The page does not state when that waiver ends; budget with the fee-applied column if your term extends beyond a short initial order. RentCC also lists a separate "Claude 5x" account add-on at $149/month; that is an AI access service, not part of the Mac rental. RentCC's "M6" label is RentCC's own device naming — the exact Apple chip generation it maps to is not explicit on the page, so verify the spec with them before committing. Apple's current lineup should be confirmed on the vendor page.

Twelve-month entry cost, fee waived:

• RentCC M4 monthly: $119 × 12 = $1,428
• Figment M-series monthly (entry): $95 × 12 = $1,140 → $288 lower
• Figment virtual Intel macOS: $29 × 12 = $348 (different hardware class)

Twelve-month entry cost, 10% fee applied on RentCC:

• RentCC M4 monthly: $130.90 × 12 = $1,570.80
• Figment M-series monthly (entry): $1,140 → $430.80 lower

These are entry-price comparisons. Figment $95 is not confirmed to match M4/16 GB/256 GB — that configuration is set in your quote. If you require that exact spec, ask Figment for a priced quote on it and compare line to line. Neither RentCC's page nor Figment's plan pages publish an uptime SLA; do not assume one in either direction.

Hardware, region and access

RentCC ships one residential IP per machine, Korea for M4 and Australia for M6, and says devices deliver "within half an hour fastest" after payment, with full use within one business day (rentcc.app). If your testers, TestFlight distribution audience or App Store Connect uploads benefit measurably from an APAC egress, that's RentCC's clearest value.

Figment's M-series and i3 ($49/month) plans are provisioned on request rather than instant, and the region is set in the quote — if APAC placement is a hard constraint, state it in your /mac-hosting/start request so it can be priced correctly. The $29 virtual Intel macOS is an Intel macOS environment running on Linux/KVM, accessed via a browser console; it has no GPU acceleration and no audio, and inbound public SSH is not offered on this VM. It runs a compatible Intel Xcode toolchain — Xcode 26 or earlier per Apple's porting guidance — and can perform supported Intel builds and signing. Choose M-series when you need Apple silicon native execution, Xcode 27, visionOS work, or more RAM and concurrency.

Figment's managed tiers add specific CI work that RentCC does not list: Managed Build Mac at $249/month includes one M-series Mac, CI setup, backups, monitoring and 30 minutes of monthly support; Managed Mac Team at $999/month includes two M-series Macs, two CI runners, team setup, backups, monitoring and one hour of monthly support. Enterprise fleet quotes are available on request. If you only need a bare machine to SSH into, the base M-series or $29 VM is enough; if you want someone else to wire the pipeline, the managed tiers are the right line item.

Xcode and toolchain fit

Per Apple's Xcode system requirements, as of 2026-11-10:

• Xcode 27.x requires macOS Tahoe 26.6 or later.
• Xcode 26.4.1 through 26.6 require macOS Tahoe 26.2 or later.
• Xcode 26 through 26.3 run on macOS Sequoia 15.6 through macOS Tahoe.
• Developing for visionOS requires a Mac with Apple silicon.

Apple's porting guidance tells Intel users to use Xcode 26 or earlier on Intel; Xcode 27 is not supported on Intel. macOS Tahoe itself still supports several Intel models (MacBook Pro 2019/2020, iMac 2020, Mac Pro 2019), so "Tahoe" and "Apple silicon only" are not the same requirement — read the Xcode row, not the macOS row. Confirm the exact pair for your project before you upgrade.

RentCC's M4 covers everything in that matrix. Figment's M-series covers it too; the $29 virtual Intel macOS covers Intel-supported Xcode work only.

Cost worksheet for your actual term

Use the numbers from your own plan. For a one-developer, one-machine, 12-month plan with no simulator-farm needs:

1. Pick the RentCC row that matches your intended term: monthly $119, quarterly $149/mo, or annual $129/mo (Korea M4).
2. Multiply by 12 and apply the 10% service fee if you cannot confirm the waiver will cover your whole term.
3. Request a Figment M-series quote stating the exact chip, RAM and disk you need. If the only match to RentCC's M4/16/256 is a tier above Figment's $95 entry, compare the quoted figure, not the entry figure.
4. Add Figment Managed Build Mac ($249/mo = $2,988/yr) only if you actually want CI setup, backups, monitoring and 30 minutes of monthly support done by Figment. Otherwise keep it at the base tier.
5. Decide whether APAC egress is worth the delta. If it is, RentCC is the right answer; if it is not, the Figment entry saves at least $288/year versus RentCC M4 monthly with the fee waived, or $430.80 with the fee applied.

A build-time example you can run on either provider — treat it as an unexecuted example, not a benchmark, because a single xcodebuild run on a cold machine is not a reliability or speed claim:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

WORKSPACE="YourApp.xcworkspace"
SCHEME="YourScheme"
DESTINATION="generic/platform=iOS"

xcodebuild -workspace "$WORKSPACE" \
  -scheme "$SCHEME" \
  -destination "$DESTINATION" \
  -configuration Release \
  clean build

Fill in your own workspace and scheme. Because set -euo pipefail is on, a failed build exits non-zero and gives you no timing — do not count a failed run as a fast run. If you want a comparison, run three successful builds on each provider and compare the medians, then check round-trip time to your artifact store from each host.

Switching from RentCC to Figment

1. Note the next RentCC billing date on rentcc.app and aim your Figment start date at it so you do not pay two bills for the same week.
2. Push all source to your git remote. Download any build artifacts or logs you want to keep off-box.
3. Export your signing certificates from Keychain Access as encrypted .p12 files with the private key included; store the passphrase in a password manager, not in a shell file or repo. Download .mobileprovision files from Apple Developer or your project — provisioning profiles are files, not Keychain exports.
4. List the secret names your CI uses. Restore the values on the new host through your CI's secret manager; do not copy a plaintext environment dump across machines.
5. On the Figment machine, install the Xcode/macOS pair you verified above, import the .p12 and profiles, and run security find-identity -v -p codesigning to confirm the identity is usable.
6. If you maintain allowlists on your own firewall, artifact store, Git host or CI runner for outbound connections, add the new Figment host there — this is specific to services you control, not a generic Apple allowlist.
7. Run production builds on Figment for at least one sprint, then cancel RentCC before the next billing cycle so you are not charged for the following term.

Pick the Figment plan

Start a quote at /mac-hosting/start or compare tiers at /mac-hosting.

Related reading:

• Figment vs RunMini: Mac Hosting Compared
• Figment vs Sim-Networks: Mac Hosting Compared
• Cloud or Office Mac: Which Fits Your Build Pipeline?