M4 macOS sandbox within Mac mini reservation
Public listing; stock and purchase eligibility are not established by this record.
24-hour minimum
Currency unconfirmed · Prepaid
Versions not documented
Region not documented
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Offer value · default usage
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
- hostmyapple: $ (unconfirmed) 34.99
- use-computer: $ (unconfirmed) 1,375.2
- namespace: $ (unconfirmed) 1,728
Source values
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
- Openapi URL
- https://api.use.computer/openapi.yaml
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