Codemagic bills macOS builds by the minute or by the year. A MacRent Mac Mini M4 or M6 is a flat daily, weekly or monthly price for a whole Mac you can build on and log into.
See MacRent pricingCodemagic is a CI/CD service popular with Flutter and React Native teams. The Individual plan includes 500 free macOS M2 minutes a month with one build at a time. Pay as you go costs $0.095 a minute on a Mac mini M2 and $0.114 a minute on a Mac mini M4, with extra concurrency at $49 a month. Fixed annual plans cost $3,990 a year for M2, $5,400 for M4 and $9,000 for a Mac Studio M4 Max, each with unlimited minutes and 3 concurrent builds. A Flutter iOS build with tests and upload easily takes 20 to 30 minutes.
MacRent rents a dedicated Mac Mini M4 at a flat $15/day, $89/week or $159/month, month to month (M6 from $17/day). Install Flutter, Node or Xcode once, register the Mac as a self-hosted runner for GitHub Actions or GitLab, and build as often as you like. Caches stay on disk between builds, and the same Mac is a full-admin machine for running the iOS Simulator or debugging over remote desktop. You can rent one online in minutes.
| Feature | MacRent | Codemagic |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | Flat $15/day, $89/week, $159/month | $0.095/min (M2) or $0.114/min (M4), or $3,990 to $9,000 a year fixed |
| Break-even | Daily equals about 2.2 hours of M4 build time, Monthly about 23 hours | Cheaper below those volumes, and the first 500 M2 minutes are free |
| Commitment | 1 day, week or month, cancel anytime | Pay as you go, or a yearly contract for unlimited minutes |
| Machine | A dedicated Mac Mini, yours for the whole rental | A build machine for the length of each build |
| Hardware | Mac Mini M4 or M6, 10 to 12-core CPU/GPU, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD | Mac mini M2 or M4, Mac Studio M4 Max on the fixed plan |
| State between builds | Persistent disk: Flutter SDK, pods, node_modules and DerivedData stay warm | Caching configured per workflow |
| CI tools | Any: GitHub Actions, GitLab Runner, Jenkins, Buildkite, Fastlane | Codemagic workflows (codemagic.yaml or the Flutter workflow editor) |
Codemagic details are based on publicly available information and may change, so check their site for current specs and pricing.
Ten 25-minute M4 builds a day is about $28.50 on pay as you go. The same builds on a MacRent Daily cost $15, and on Monthly about $5.30 a day.
Unlimited minutes on Codemagic means an annual plan. A MacRent Mac is unlimited by the day, week or month, so you can scale down after a release.
Your Flutter SDK, pods and Gradle caches live on the Mac's own disk, so builds skip the download and restore steps.
Open the Mac over remote desktop to run the iOS Simulator, test on Safari, or sign and upload a build by hand when you need to.
A dedicated Mac Mini M4 on every plan. No quotes, no contracts, cancel anytime.
Where should your Mac be?
Which Mac?
Ready in minutes after payment
Delivered automatically, usually in under 5 minutes.
You get an M4.
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.
Prices exclude VAT. EU consumers pay their country's VAT at checkout; EU businesses with a valid VAT ID pay the price shown (reverse charge).
When you build a few times a week, fit inside the free minutes, or want ready-made Flutter workflows and store publishing without looking after a machine. Its pay as you go pricing is hard to beat at low volume.
Yes. It is a standard macOS machine with full admin, so you install Xcode, the Flutter SDK or Node, CocoaPods and Fastlane, and build exactly as you would on your own Mac.
Register the Mac as a self-hosted runner for GitHub Actions or GitLab, or as a Jenkins or Buildkite agent, over SSH. The self-hosted GitHub Actions macOS runner guide on the blog covers it step by step.
Dedicated. Nobody else runs on your Mac Mini, it has a static IP, and the disk persists until you cancel. Daily rentals can stop after 24 hours or renew until you cancel.