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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 summary of documented Mac-service commitments. Reference plans and category differences remain explicit. Not an entitlement guarantee for every offer; no price, hardware value, benchmark or identity bonus.

6/6 categories scored · 0/6 with sufficient current evidence · 0/19 underlying criteria resolved. Coverage is not a quality score.

0/3 No evidence · 1/3 Bad · 2/3 Good · 3/3 Excellent. These are our rubric ratings of documented commitments. A zero means insufficient supported evidence, not proven poor service.

Crucible Fund LLC; Daytona Platforms Inc. affiliateAffiliate relationship · US listing eligible

Retained through Daytona affiliation. use.computer terms name Crucible Fund LLC, whose connection to the SEC-listed Daytona entity is not registry-verified.

Identity source ↗ · Listing policy & limits ↗
SLA protections0/3 · No evidence

No sufficient current, consistent evidence for every required criterion. Missing or disputed findings receive 0; this does not establish that the service is bad.

Virtual machines · 0/3 · No evidence

Evidence scope: Reference scope not established · Unknown

Availability commitment & remedy 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

Support0/3 · No evidence

No sufficient current, consistent evidence for every required criterion. Missing or disputed findings receive 0; this does not establish that the service is bad.

Virtual machines · 0/3 · No evidence

Evidence scope: Reference scope not established · Unknown

Incident response & escalation 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

Support access 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

Security controls0/3 · No evidence

No sufficient current, consistent evidence for every required criterion. Missing or disputed findings receive 0; this does not establish that the service is bad.

Virtual machines · 0/3 · No evidence

Evidence scope: Reference scope not established · Unknown

Account & team access 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

Isolation & credentials 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

Security documentation 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

Data lifecycle0/3 · No evidence

No sufficient current, consistent evidence for every required criterion. Missing or disputed findings receive 0; this does not establish that the service is bad.

Virtual machines · 0/3 · No evidence

Evidence scope: Reference scope not established · Unknown

Data lifecycle 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

Workflow0/3 · No evidence

No sufficient current, consistent evidence for every required criterion. Missing or disputed findings receive 0; this does not establish that the service is bad.

Virtual machines · 0/3 · No evidence

Evidence scope: Reference scope not established · Unknown

VM provisioning 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

VM lifecycle control 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

Images & recovery 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

CPU & memory controls 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

Remote access & debugging 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

CI & persistence 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

Billing clarity0/3 · No evidence

No sufficient current, consistent evidence for every required criterion. Missing or disputed findings receive 0; this does not establish that the service is bad.

Virtual machines · 0/3 · No evidence

Evidence scope: Reference scope not established · Unknown

Complete charge structure 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

Cancellation & billing stop 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

Entitlements & purchase terms 0/3 · No evidence

No supported finding has been imported for this criterion.

0–3 grades use fixed rules, never price or hardware value. Missing required evidence receives 0; otherwise the weakest criterion and service scope set the grade. No overall average. Read the rubric ↗

Company information

Official website ↗

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. Verified gap resolution (2026-09-24): VMs checklist previously at 16/19 with incident_response, status, and support_channels open. Open-questions follow-up (2026-09-24): Still open: vms.incident_response: Does Daytona's SLA cover use.computer macOS VMs, and is there a separate enterprise incident-response schedule?; vms.support_channels: Is support@daytona.io staffed for use.computer sandbox customers, what issues are covered, and during what hours?; vms.status: Does status.app.daytona.io include use.computer Mac capacity and VM incidents?

Snapshots

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

Source ↗Observed Sep 21, 2026 · Provider documented

THE RESOURCE CATALOG

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

Prepaid · Source changed — needs review

System
M4Mac mini host
Software & location

Versions not documented

Region not documented

Availability

Check availability

Confirm before ordering

Estimated bill · default usage

Est. $1,375.2 / 720 hoursValue 50/100 · price-based
Calculation & assumptions

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

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

Pricing or billing evidence needs review.

  • 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.
  • Dollar-only source quote interpreted as US dollars for comparison; not a currency conversion.
Reference prices · 3 providers
Source values

Not a company quality score. Compare company commitments ↗

Offer 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
Not verified

Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.

Explicit offer evidence; provider documentation is not an independent machine test.

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
Not verified

Provider documentation; not independently performance-tested.

Explicit offer evidence; provider documentation is not an independent machine test.

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

Needs review
Amount
1.91
Currency symbol
$
Currency
USD
Unit
reserved mac hour
Minimum commitment hours
24
Prepaid
Yes
Currency basis
comparison assumption
Source currency symbol
$

Published dollar amount interpreted as US dollars for comparison. The source uses only a dollar sign; this currency assumption is not provider confirmation or an exchange-rate conversion. Billed per reserved Mac, not per VM; 24-hour minimum.

Source ↗Observed Sep 24, 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