NoMac vs the alternatives

Every other way to give your agent a Mac or an iPhone, or your GitHub Actions jobs a Mac, compared on price, speed and what you can do with it. $0.90 an hour, billed per minute, for either.

iOS Simulators for agents: NoMac Simulator

NoMac Simulator vs Limrun: A cloud iPhone for your agent at $0.90 an hour with the Xcode build included, against Limrun's $4.80 an hour plus its separate build sandbox.

NoMac Simulator vs Expo Simulators: Start a cloud iPhone for your agent today, ready in seconds and built with Xcode 27.1, at $0.90 an hour against Expo's $6.00, instead of joining Expo's waitlist.

NoMac Simulator vs Argent Cloud: iOS Simulators for your agent at $0.90 an hour, billed per minute, ready in seconds and building your app, instead of a $299 monthly Runner.

NoMac Simulator vs Run Cloud: A cloud iPhone at $0.90 an hour with incremental builds on the phone's own Mac, a hosted MCP server and signed webhooks, against Run Cloud's $1.20.

NoMac Simulator vs Appetize: NoMac Simulator builds your Xcode project and runs it on a cloud iPhone for $0.90 an hour. Appetize needs a prebuilt app and a monthly plan.

NoMac Simulator vs BrowserStack: An iOS Simulator your agent builds and tests on, ready in seconds at $0.90 an hour, instead of yearly real-device plans from $39 a month per user.

NoMac Simulator vs macbox: Build and run your app on a cloud iPhone for $0.90 an hour, with a hosted MCP server and signing, TestFlight and a full Mac in the same account.

NoMac Simulator vs FlowDeck: A cloud iPhone for each of your agents, ready in seconds with the Xcode build included, at $0.90 an hour. FlowDeck runs every agent's Simulator on your own Mac, on a yearly license.

NoMac Simulator vs agent-device: A cloud iPhone your agent starts in seconds, with your Xcode project built on the phone's own Mac, at $0.90 an hour. agent-device needs a Mac you host or a device cloud you sign up for.

NoMac Simulator vs mobile-mcp: No Mac, Xcode or booted Simulator of your own: NoMac Simulator gives your agent a cloud iPhone in seconds that builds your Xcode project, at $0.90 an hour, billed per minute.

NoMac Simulator vs Maestro Cloud: A live cloud iPhone your agent builds on, reads and taps, at $0.90 an hour, billed per minute, instead of $250 per device a month to run flows you wrote.

NoMac Simulator vs Simlock: A cloud iPhone for each of your agents, ready in seconds with the Xcode build included, from any machine, at $0.90 an hour. Simlock leases Simulators on Macs you own, set up and run.

NoMac Simulator vs MobAI: A cloud iPhone ready in seconds, with your Xcode project built incrementally on the phone's own Mac, at $0.90 an hour. MobAI's cloud Simulator is a CI job on your own GitHub Actions, Codemagic or Bitrise account.

macOS runners for GitHub Actions: NoMac CI

NoMac CI vs GitHub-hosted macOS runners: About a quarter of the price per macOS minute, on a newer Mac with twice the cores. Change runs-on to nomac and keep the rest of the workflow. $0.90 an hour per job, billed per minute.

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.

NoMac CI vs Xcode Cloud: Run CI in GitHub Actions with any tool as a step: NoMac CI gives each macOS job a fresh Mac with Xcode 27, at $0.90 an hour, billed per minute from credit that never expires.

NoMac CI vs a self-hosted Mac mini: A Mac mini runner costs $899 up front, and its updates, cleanup and security are yours. NoMac CI gives every GitHub Actions job a fresh Mac for $0.90 an hour, with nothing to maintain.

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.

NoMac CI vs CircleCI macOS: About an eighth of the price per macOS minute, with no second CI system to run. NoMac CI runs macOS jobs in GitHub Actions for $0.90 an hour, billed per minute.

NoMac CI vs WarpBuild: About a fifth of the price per macOS minute, with Xcode 27 as the default. NoMac CI is the same one-line change, at $0.90 an hour per job.

NoMac CI vs Blacksmith: About a fifth of the price per macOS minute, from credit that never expires. NoMac CI runs each GitHub Actions job on a fresh Mac for $0.90 an hour.

NoMac CI vs Namespace: A quarter of the price of Namespace's 6 vCPU macOS runner, with no plan or unit minutes to track. NoMac CI runs each GitHub Actions job on a fresh Mac for $0.90 an hour.

NoMac CI vs Depot: About a fifth of the price per macOS minute, with no monthly plan. NoMac CI runs each GitHub Actions job on a fresh Mac with Xcode 27, at $0.90 an hour.

NoMac CI vs Cirrus Runners: Cirrus Runners has taken no new customers since Cirrus Labs joined OpenAI in April 2026. NoMac CI is open: connect GitHub, change runs-on to nomac, and pay per minute with no monthly runner.

Mac rentals and hosting

NoMac vs MacinCloud: Root on every session, not only on dedicated plans. NoMac gives your agent a fresh Mac with Xcode 27 for $0.90 an hour, billed per minute.

NoMac vs RentAMac: No waiting for a Mac mini to free up, and no $119 a month. NoMac starts a fresh Mac for your agent in about a minute and bills only the minutes used.

NoMac vs AWS EC2 Mac: No 24-hour minimum. NoMac bills your agent's Mac per minute: a 20-minute build costs about 30¢, not about $21 for a day of an EC2 Mac host.

NoMac vs Scaleway Apple silicon: No 24-hour lease and no server to delete. NoMac gives your agent a fresh Mac with Xcode 27, billed per minute, with a one-minute minimum.

NoMac vs MacStadium: No $109-a-month server. NoMac gives your agent a fresh Mac on Apple M6 or M5 Pro with Xcode 27, billed per minute from $10 of credit.

NoMac vs Macly: Start today, with no bulk order. NoMac gives your agent a Mac with Xcode 27 in about a minute, billed per minute. Macly has paused individual orders.

NoMac vs OakHost: A Mac for your agent in about a minute, not a monthly server that is out of stock. NoMac comes with Xcode 27 and bills per minute.

NoMac vs My Remote Mac: No 24-hour rental and no monthly plan. NoMac gives your agent a fresh Mac with Xcode 27, billed per minute: a 20-minute build costs about 30¢.

NoMac vs Buying a Mac mini: $899 buys a Mac mini, or about 999 hours of NoMac: a Mac with Xcode 27 for your agent, with nothing to maintain.

CI and build services

NoMac vs Expo EAS: Pay for Mac minutes, not per build. NoMac gives your agent a real Mac with Xcode 27 for native iOS apps: a five-minute build costs about 7.5¢.

NoMac vs Fastlane: Run fastlane without owning a Mac. NoMac gives your agent real macOS with Xcode 27 and root to run your lanes, at $0.90 an hour.

Sandboxes and tools for agents

NoMac vs Rork: Bring any app and any agent. NoMac gives Claude Code, Codex or Cursor a real Mac with Xcode 27 to build, test and ship, whatever wrote the code.

NoMac vs Bitrise Remote Dev Environments: No monthly plan, no workspace roles. NoMac gives your agent a fresh Mac with Xcode 27 in about a minute, billed per minute from $10 of credit.

NoMac vs use.computer: No 24-hour reservation and no SDK code. NoMac gives your coding agent a Mac with Xcode 27, billed per minute, over the MCP it already speaks.

NoMac vs Cua: No Mac to own or host. NoMac gives your agent a fresh Mac with Xcode 27 in about a minute, while Cua runs on Macs you supply yourself.

NoMac vs E2B: Real macOS with Xcode 27 for every Apple step your agent takes, billed per minute. E2B sandboxes run Linux and cannot run Xcode.

NoMac vs Daytona: Xcode 27, billed per minute, in one account. Daytona's macOS runs through use.computer, with its own key and a Mac reserved for at least 24 hours.

NoMac vs boat.dev: boat.dev gives agents Linux VMs. NoMac gives your agent a real Mac with Xcode 27, the iOS Simulator and the App Store, billed per minute.

NoMac vs InstaBox: InstaBox gives each agent a Linux machine. NoMac gives your agent a real Mac with Xcode 27 and the App Store, at $0.90 an hour, billed per minute.

NoMac vs xtool: Real Xcode 27 on a real Mac, from Linux or Windows: your agent builds any Xcode project, runs it in the iOS Simulator and ships it, at $0.90 an hour. xtool builds SwiftPM packages for an iPhone on a USB cable.

NoMac vs Macswarm: No monthly plan, and any agent. NoMac gives Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or ChatGPT a real Mac with root and Xcode 27, billed per minute from $10 of credit that never expires.