NoMac vs fractal

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NoMac compared with fractal
Detail	NoMac	fractal
What it does	On-demand cloud macOS for AI agents, billed per minute	Long-term memory for AI agents that organizes itself and corrects itself
Stage	Startup	MVP
Founded	2026	Not given
Based in	Not given	SE
Pricing model	Paid	Free
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.	Personal: Free during early access. Unlimited memories, all agents with separate memories, no card required. Enterprise: On request, set up by the team for departmental organization with cross-department sharing and direct support.
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	Self-correcting memory that updates when facts change Historical memory queries with time-based retrieval Automatic topic organization and hierarchy Separate memory for each agent with controlled sharing Multi-agent support via MCP, REST API, or LangGraph AES-256 encryption at rest and in backups OAuth 2.1 authentication and API key management Data export and deletion capabilities 37 MCP tools with automated verification on every code change
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	Understands what changed, when it was true, and where it belongs - beyond vector database similarity Never contradicts itself by automatically replacing outdated facts Fully GDPR aligned with built-in privacy by design Two-minute integration with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any MCP client Data stays in Europe on AWS eu-north-1 and never used for model training
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	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	13	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	28	0
Referring domains (Majestic)	140	0

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