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use.computer

Ephemeral macOS VMs on a customer-reserved physical M4 Mac mini. Billing is a prepaid Mac reservation; VM teardown is a separate action.

Reviewed Sep 21, 2026Provider claims · source links included
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Company information

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Company-wide information is shown here once. Resource-specific support, terms and exceptions are recorded in each listing below. Operator relationships are not independently verified unless the evidence explicitly says so.

Research notes & open questions

RAM, storage allocation, regions, exact macOS/Xcode images, refund/cancellation terms, operator identity and live stock remain unverified. API image discovery needs an active paid reservation and remains deferred. Uploaded assessment research (2026-09-21): VMS: submitted research reports 16/19 checklist items resolved. Submitted open questions: incident_response: Are there documented severity-based incident response targets and escalation for sandbox customers?; support_channels: Is there a documented human technical support channel with defined availability for the reference plan?; status: Is there a public status page or incident history for the sandbox service?

Snapshots

Detail
yes - box.snapshot('name') freezes disk state into an image; documented snapshot workflow
State
yes

Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented

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Full specifications

1 individual listings
Virtual machines#

M4 macOS sandbox within Mac mini reservation

Public listing; stock and purchase eligibility are not established by this record.

Native price$1.91/ reserved mac hour

24-hour minimum

Currency unconfirmed · Prepaid

System
M4Mac mini host
Software & location

Versions not documented

Region not documented

Availability

Check availability

Confirm before ordering

Offer value · default usage

50/100Low confidenceEst. $ (unconfirmed) 1,375.2 / 720 hours
Calculation & assumptions

100 × reference price ÷ (reference price + offering price). Category price comparison; 3 providers. Uses an estimated price, not a complete invoice.

100 × $ (unconfirmed) 1,375.2 ÷ ($ (unconfirmed) 1,375.2 + $ (unconfirmed) 1,375.2) = 50/100.

Billing currency is unconfirmed.

  • One user and one concurrent job or machine.
  • Excludes optional add-ons, transfer, extra storage and applicable taxes.
  • Estimated from the available listed price; unresolved charges and terms remain in the source details.
  • Compared with listings using the same unconfirmed currency notation; no USD or exchange-rate assumption.
Reference prices · 3 providers
Source values
Value methodology ↗

CI: 1,000 minutes/month for 12 months, 10-minute jobs, private repositories, new Apple membership. Machines: one 720-hour allocation. Change usage assumptions ↗

Services & integrations

Service integrations for this offering are still being reviewed. The specifications below retain the available source evidence; confirm required integrations with the provider.

Workload capabilities

Admin
Not verified

No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.

Docker
Not verified

No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.

Graphical desktop
Supported

Provider documented

Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.

IOS simulator
Not verified

No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.

Nested virtualization
Not verified

No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.

SSH
Supported

Provider documented

Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.

Xcode build
Not verified

No explicit offer-scoped or provider-scope evidence.

Pricing & commercial terms

Billing boundary

Billed resource
physical Mac reservation
Minimum reservation hours
24
Prepaid
Yes
Sandbox create destroy does not define charge
Yes

Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.

Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented

Billing stop

Billing boundary
prepaid reservation end
Vm cleanup
delete sandbox or let idle reaper run
Reservation refund on vm delete
unknown

Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.

Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented

Pricing

Amount
1.91
Currency symbol
$
Currency
Not documented
Unit
reserved mac hour
Minimum commitment hours
24
Prepaid
Yes

Dollar denomination shown; ISO currency not explicit on this page. Up to two VMs share the reserved Mac. Do not present a VM-hour price.

Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented

Hardware & software

Hardware

Host chip
M4
Host machine
Mac mini
Maximum concurrent vms per host
2

Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.

Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented

Access, operations & capabilities

Access

VNC
supported
Browser remote display
supported
Mouse keyboard
supported
Shell
supported

Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.

Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented

Automation

API
Create vm
Yes
Delete vm
Yes
Execute shell
Yes
Sdks
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Go

Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.

Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented

Persistence

Ephemeral vm
Yes
Idle timeout approximately seconds
120
End of reservation
all sandboxes destroyed

Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.

Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented

Release workflow

Context manager auto delete
Yes

AI-extracted from first-party documentation; source passage retrieved and matched, with a separate evidence/applicability check. Not independently machine-tested. The context-manager workflow performs automatic deletion; explicit deletion is documented for callers that do not use the context manager.

Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented

Reservation isolation

Sandbox placement
reserved Macs only
Reservation end
all sandboxes destroyed

Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.

Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented

Snapshots

Supported
Yes
Scope
macOS disk state

Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.

Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented