Bitrise runs your mobile pipelines on managed build machines. MacRent gives you a dedicated Mac Mini M4 or M6 with 16GB of RAM that you control: any CI agent, no build timeout, and remote desktop when you need it.
See MacRent pricingBitrise is a CI/CD platform built for mobile teams. The free Hobby plan covers one private app. Starter costs $99 a month ($89 billed annually) with unlimited build minutes, up to 4 concurrent builds and a recommended ceiling of 100 builds a month, on M2 Pro Medium machines with 4 CPUs and 6 GB of RAM. Pro starts at $218 a month ($200 billed annually). Builds on Starter and Pro time out after 210 minutes, and remote build caching is a separate product from $30 a month.
MacRent rents a dedicated Mac Mini M4 or M6 with 10 to 12 CPU cores and 16GB of RAM, and the whole machine is yours. Register it as a self-hosted runner for GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins or Buildkite, keep caches on its disk, and log in over SSH, VNC or RustDesk when you need to debug a build by hand. Rent it for a day to test a pipeline, or by the week or month from $15/day, and order online in minutes.
| Feature | MacRent | Bitrise |
|---|---|---|
| Machine | A dedicated Mac Mini, the whole machine is yours | Managed build machines run by Bitrise |
| Hardware | Mac Mini M4 or M6, 10 to 12-core CPU/GPU, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD | Starter: M2 Pro Medium, 4 CPU, 6 GB RAM |
| Build length | No timeout, the Mac runs as long as your job does | 210-minute timeout on Starter and Pro |
| Build volume | As many builds as the Mac can run | Starter recommended up to 100 builds a month |
| Caching | Persistent disk: DerivedData, simulators and dependency caches stay warm | Remote Build Cache sold separately, from $30 a month |
| CI tools | Any: GitHub Actions, GitLab Runner, Jenkins, Buildkite, Fastlane | Bitrise workflows and steps |
| Shortest rental | 1 day, then week or month, cancel anytime | Monthly or annual plans |
Bitrise details are based on publicly available information and may change, so check their site for current specs and pricing.
A whole M4 or M6 with 16GB of RAM compiles large Swift projects and runs UI tests without the memory pressure of a 6 GB build VM.
Long archive, test and upload jobs run to the end, and there is no recommended monthly build count to stay under.
If the rest of your code builds in GitHub Actions or GitLab, the iOS job can join it on your own Mac runner instead of living on a separate platform.
When a build fails, connect over remote desktop, open Xcode and the Simulator, and fix it on the same Mac that runs CI.
A dedicated Mac Mini M4 on every plan. No quotes, no contracts, cancel anytime.
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1 month of accessonly $5.30 per day
Renews every month until you cancel
Every plan renews until you cancel, in one click from the billing portal. On Daily you can pick 24 hours only at checkout.
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When you want a fully managed mobile pipeline with ready-made steps, many builds in parallel, and no machine to maintain. Bitrise also covers Android, release management and CodePush in one place.
You can run the open source Bitrise CLI on any Mac to execute a bitrise.yml locally, and a MacRent Mac is a standard macOS machine with full admin. Many teams move the iOS job to a self-hosted GitHub Actions or GitLab runner instead.
Usually within minutes of payment. Credentials arrive by email with SSH, VNC and RustDesk already set up.
Dedicated. Nobody else runs on your Mac Mini, it has a static IP, and the disk persists until you cancel. Xcode is not preinstalled, so you install the exact version you need.