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COMPARISON · UPDATED FROM LIVE CATALOG

Cheapest Mac CI runners

Shortlist of the lowest modeled bills for macOS CI runners under a fixed scenario: 1,000 compute minutes/month for 1 month. One offering per provider. Figures recalculate when the public catalog updates. Latest evidence Sep 21, 2026.

Lowest modeled bills right now

  1. GitHub Actions — standard-arm

    M1 · USD 62 / 1 month · confidence medium

    Free for public repositories

    Provider source · observed Sep 21, 2026

  2. WarpBuild — warp-macos-14-arm64-6x

    M4 Pro · USD 80 / 1 month · confidence medium

    macOS 14

    Provider source · observed Sep 20, 2026

  3. Apple Xcode Cloud — 25 compute hours/month

    Not documented · USD 99 / 1 month · confidence medium

    1,500 min/mo included

    Provider source · observed Sep 21, 2026

Highest value scores (same scenario)

  1. GitHub Actions — standard-arm

    M1 · USD 62 / 1 month

  2. WarpBuild — warp-macos-14-arm64-6x

    M4 Pro · USD 80 / 1 month

  3. Apple Xcode Cloud — 25 compute hours/month

    Not documented · USD 99 / 1 month

How to read this

Modeled cost uses published rates, included minutes, job increments and required fees under the scenario above. It is not a performance benchmark. Fixed bundles and unlimited plans are different purchases. Change assumptions on the CI runners table, filter with maxCost, or query MCP. Lean text mirror: /runners.md.

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