NoMac vs boxd

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NoMac compared with boxd
Detail	NoMac	boxd
What it does	On-demand cloud macOS for AI agents, billed per minute	Composable computers for devs and agents
Stage	Startup	Not given
Founded	2026	Not given
Based in	Not given	NL
Pricing model	Paid	Not given
Pricing	$0.90 per hour, billed per minute. Prepaid credit starts at $10, never expires and needs no subscription. Bigger top-ups add up to 20% bonus credit: $100 buys 133 hours. 7-day money-back guarantee on first purchase.	Credit-based pricing: €0.039 per vCPU-hour (active only), €0.012 per GiB-hour for RAM (memory in use), €0.00008 per GiB-hour for disk (written space only). New accounts receive €30 in free credits. A typical 2 vCPU / 8 GiB machine costs approximately €0.03 per hour while running (with 10% vCPU activ
Key features	Real macOS on Apple M6 or M5 Pro silicon, ready in about a minute Full admin access with no password prompts Xcode 27 preinstalled with Homebrew, Node, Python and CocoaPods iOS Simulator with screenshots and screen recordings Persistent 20 GB encrypted drive between sessions Control via MCP, CLI, API or SSH App Store submissions and TestFlight uploads Secrets management without chat exposure Desktop view and control in browser	Hardware-isolated Linux VMs with persistent state between sessions Snapshots and checkpoints for machine state management Automatic hibernation after 4 hours idle, paying for disk only Pre-installed tools: Claude Code, Docker, Node, Python, Go, git, Chrome, ffmpeg, nginx Public HTTPS URL per machine with custom domain support Egress allowlist for network security and isolation CLI, API, Python and TypeScript SDKs for automation Integration with GitHub, Linear and Slack across all machines
What makes it different	Agents work autonomously without human prompts or permission dialogs Pay only for minutes used, not idle Mac time Complete end-to-end app building and publishing from iOS Simulator to App Store Built-in isolation and security with ephemeral sessions	Hardware-isolated real VMs instead of containers, with full kernel isolation Persistent machines remember running processes and state between disconnects Pay only for active resources used, not provisioned size Free self-hosting up to 16 vCPUs on your own infrastructure
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	20 −1 (down) since last check	44 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	13	8
Citation Flow (Majestic)	28	37
Referring domains (Majestic)	140	151

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