Figment vs xaweho: Mac Hosting Compared in 2026

Direct verdict

xaweho is a German Mac mini host with an unusually low entry price: €29/month for an M1/8 GB/256 GB Mac mini on a three-month minimum, per its listing at xaweho.de. On 2026-11-10 every tier on that page — M1 clearance and all three M4 options — reads Currently sold out. Confirm live stock at xaweho before placing an order.

If you need an Apple silicon Mac mini on short notice from stock, xaweho cannot deliver one today. If you can wait for its order queue and your workload fits an 8 GB M1 for three months, €29/month (≈ $32.52 at the ECB reference rate 1 EUR = 1.1214 USD on 2026-11-10; approximate, before bank fees — see ECB) is a cheaper ARM entry than Figment's M-series from $95/month. If you need an M4 chip, xaweho's three M4 tiers all carry a 12-month minimum and are listed sold out, so there is no fast path there either.

Figment competes directly. The useful Figment picks here are:

• Virtual Intel macOS VM at $29/month (2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 80 GiB disk) for Intel-compatible Xcode and scripting work.
• M-series physical Mac from $95/month for ARM execution, Xcode 27 or visionOS. Specific chip, RAM and disk are confirmed in the quote.
• Managed Build Mac at $249/month when you want Figment to set up CI, backups and monitoring with 30 minutes of monthly support.

Start a configuration at /mac-hosting/start.

Plan and term comparison

EUR/USD uses the ECB reference rate 1 EUR = 1.1214 USD on 2026-11-10. xaweho's setup fee is €0 and included traffic is 5 TB/month at 1 Gbit shared, with €1.50 per additional TB — all four listed tiers.

† The $95 entry for Figment M-series is not a verified M4/16 GB/256 GB configuration. The exact chip, RAM and disk are stated in the quote, so a like-for-like M4 comparison against xaweho's €79 M4 Solo cannot be made from headline prices alone. If an M4/16/256 is what you need, request a Figment quote and confirm the config before you compare.

Minimum spend if you sign today (hypothetical)

Treat this as a worksheet for when stock returns; nothing on xaweho is bookable today.

Cancellation is 7 days' written notice before period end. If you ever sign up, diary the notice date; missing it rolls another term. For context, twelve months of Figment M-series at the $95 entry is $1,140 — more than xaweho's M4 Solo at €948 (≈ $1,063) if that tier comes back in stock, but Figment's hardware spec is confirmed only in the quote, so do not call the two plans equivalent on chip and memory from price alone. Tax, VAT and any card/bank fees apply as stated in each provider's own offer.

Architecture and toolchain fit

The relevant technical difference is architecture. xaweho's Mac minis are Apple silicon (ARM). Figment's $29 VM is a virtual Intel macOS environment on Linux/KVM — it runs macOS and a compatible Intel Xcode toolchain, with no GPU acceleration and no audio. It is not a jump host to a separate Mac: you log in through the browser console and run xcodebuild, Fastlane, SwiftPM and similar tools on that macOS directly. Outbound CI agents (GitHub Actions self-hosted, Buildkite, CircleCI runners) can register from it to your service.

What each one can and cannot do:

• Figment Intel VM: Intel-supported Xcode (Xcode 26 or earlier runs on Intel; see Apple's porting guide). Intel Xcode 26 or earlier can cross-compile and sign arm64 device apps and universal macOS binaries. It cannot execute ARM-only binaries, run Xcode 27, or build visionOS; Apple silicon is required for those per Apple's Xcode system requirements.
• xaweho M1 or M4: any Xcode version supported by the installed macOS on that machine, including Xcode 27 if the mini is on macOS Tahoe 26.6 or later. visionOS development is supported because the hardware is Apple silicon.

If your pipeline needs Xcode 27, visionOS, ARM-native execution or GPU work, choose a Figment M-series Mac. If it fits an Intel Xcode 26.x toolchain, the $29 VM is the cheapest option on either side.

Migration checklist from xaweho to Figment

xaweho is in Germany and Figment is in the US. Plan the transfer during low-traffic hours and watch the 5 TB monthly cap — overage is €1.50/TB.

• Send written cancellation at least 7 days before period end by email or the xaweho customer centre. Note the next renewal date before you start.
• Archive project trees on the xaweho machine (for example tar -czf projects_$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz ~/projects) and transfer them with rsync or scp. Check the running total against the 5 TB allowance.
• Export each signing certificate from Keychain Access → My Certificates as an encrypted .p12 with a strong passphrase. Move the .p12 and the passphrase through separate channels — the passphrase through your team's secret manager.
• Download .mobileprovision provisioning profiles from the Apple Developer portal. They are files; do not try to export them from Keychain.
• List the names of CI environment variables. Recreate the values on Figment through your CI service's secrets UI or your own secret manager. Do not dump the shell environment to a plaintext file.
• Deregister self-hosted CI runners on the xaweho host and register new ones on Figment once the machine is provisioned.
• Update your own service allowlists — artifact store, deployment API, private registry, CI platform — with the Figment machine's egress IP if you restrict by IP there. Apple's App Store Connect and TestFlight do not publish a fixed IP allowlist to add.
• Run a clean build with set -euo pipefail in CI scripts so a failed build exits non-zero. A failing build is not a benchmark.

Pick the Figment plan

Start at /mac-hosting/start and confirm the macOS version, hardware spec, access method and term in the quote.

Related reading

• Buy or rent a Mac for CI
• Hourly or monthly Mac hosting
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