Codemagic Alternative (2026): NoMac CI vs Codemagic
NoMac CI vs Codemagic
About a sixth of the price per Mac minute, in a standard GitHub Actions workflow. NoMac CI runs each macOS job 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 Codemagic is
A hosted mobile CI/CD platform, strongest with Flutter and cross-platform teams. It runs builds from a codemagic.yaml file or its workflow editor, not GitHub Actions, and bills macOS at $0.095 a minute on M2 and $0.114 on M4, with 1 parallel build included and a 120-minute build limit.
NoMac CI vs Codemagic at a glance
| NoMac CI | Codemagic | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.90/hour, 1.5¢ a minute | $0.095/min (M2), $0.114/min (M4) |
| An hour of macOS | $0.90 | $5.70 (M2), $6.84 (M4) |
| Workflows | Your GitHub Actions workflow | codemagic.yaml or the workflow editor |
| Jobs at once | 2 on every account | 1 included, $49/month for each more |
| Time limit | 6 hours | 120 minutes |
Why teams choose NoMac CI
- ✓About a sixth of the price: $0.90 an hour, against $5.70 for an hour of Codemagic's M2 machine.
- ✓GitHub Actions instead of codemagic.yaml: a standard workflow whose macOS jobs run on NoMac with runs-on: nomac.
- ✓Jobs up to 6 hours, where Codemagic stops builds at 120 minutes.
- ✓Two jobs at once on every account, where pay as you go includes one parallel build and charges $49 a month for each more.
- ✓A fresh VM for every job, deleted when it ends.
The verdict
Codemagic charges about six times as much per M2 minute and needs its own pipeline file. NoMac CI runs the same build in a standard GitHub Actions workflow, at $0.90 an hour.
Move it to GitHub Actions
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 Codemagic 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.