Bitrise Alternative (2026): NoMac CI vs Bitrise and Build Hub
NoMac CI vs Bitrise
Half of the price of a Bitrise Build Hub Mac, with no monthly budget to use up. NoMac CI runs your GitHub Actions jobs on a fresh Mac for $0.90 an hour, billed per minute.
A fresh Mac for every GitHub Actions job.
$0.90/hour per job · billed per minute · no subscription
7-day money-back guarantee on your first purchase. Prices checked 2 November 2026 from public list prices.
What Bitrise is
A mobile DevOps platform with two products: Bitrise CI, its own CI with bitrise.yml workflows on plans from $89 a month (billed annually), and Build Hub, macOS runners for GitHub Actions. Build Hub's M4 Large (5 vCPU, 14 GB) is $0.03 a minute from a monthly budget that starts at $15 and resets each month.
NoMac CI vs Bitrise at a glance
| NoMac CI | Bitrise | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.90/hour, 1.5¢ a minute | $0.03/min (Build Hub M4 Large) from a monthly budget, twice that beyond it |
| An hour of macOS | $0.90 | $1.80 on plan minutes |
| Plan | None; prepaid credit from $10 | Build Hub from $15/month; Bitrise CI from $89/month (annual) |
| Unused time | Credit never expires | The budget resets each month |
| Workflows | GitHub Actions | bitrise.yml (Bitrise CI) or GitHub Actions (Build Hub) |
| Job time limit | 6 hours | 90 min (Hobby), 210 min (Starter, Pro) |
Why teams choose NoMac CI
- ✓Half of the price: $0.90 an hour, against $1.80 for an hour of Build Hub's M4 Large from a plan's budget.
- ✓No monthly budget to plan around: credit never expires, so a quiet month costs nothing and a busy one needs no upgrade.
- ✓GitHub Actions instead of bitrise.yml: a standard workflow with runs-on: nomac, and Build Hub users change only that label.
- ✓Jobs up to 6 hours, where Bitrise CI builds stop at 90 minutes on Hobby and 210 on Starter and Pro.
- ✓A fresh VM for every job, deleted when it ends.
The verdict
Bitrise sells macOS minutes through monthly plans and budgets that reset. NoMac CI runs the same GitHub Actions jobs for half of Build Hub's per-minute price, from credit that never expires.
Move it to GitHub Actions
Once, then add a workflow like this one to .github/workflows:
name: CI
on: [push, pull_request]
jobs:
test:
runs-on: nomac
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v5
- run: |
xcodebuild test -scheme App \
-destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 17 Pro'
Add Fastlane, CocoaPods, your scripts or any action as more steps. The docs cover the machine, the limits and secrets.
Questions
What is the best alternative to Bitrise for macOS jobs on GitHub Actions?
NoMac CI: change runs-on to nomac and every job runs on a fresh Apple silicon Mac with Xcode, 6 cores and 8 GB, at $0.90 an hour, billed per minute from prepaid credit. No subscription, no seats and no monthly minimum.
How much does NoMac CI cost?
$0.90 an hour, billed per minute, from the Mac's start to its stop with a one-minute minimum, from prepaid credit: $10 buys 11.1 hours and never expires. A Mac that never ran a job is credited back. 7-day money-back guarantee on your first purchase.
How do I switch?
Sign in at nomac.app, open CI and press Connect GitHub to install the NoMac CI app on your account or organization, on all repositories or the ones you pick. Then change runs-on: macos-latest to runs-on: nomac in the jobs that should run on NoMac. Steps, actions and secrets stay as they are.
What is on the Mac?
macOS 26.6.2, Xcode 27.0, iOS 27.0 Simulator, with Homebrew, CocoaPods, Node, Python and Ruby, on 6 cores and 8 GB of an Apple M4 to M6. Every job gets a fresh VM, deleted when the job ends.
How many jobs run at once?
Two per account, up to 6 hours each. More jobs wait in GitHub's queue for a free Mac, and teams that need more at once ask for it.
Does it work with GitLab, Bitbucket or Jenkins?
NoMac CI runs GitHub Actions jobs, for personal accounts and organizations, private and public repositories. From another CI system, a job can start a NoMac Mac with the NoMac CLI and run its build there.
A fresh Mac for every job, billed per minute.