use.computer

use.computer · Compute · 1 record · JSON

use.computer Compute

paidemail?card?Drequest-rate

use.computer/ · macOS host · compute/use-computer · JSON · compare

Free tier	no free tier: Apple Silicon Mac minis at $0.90 an hour for an M4, $1.40 for an M4 Pro and $1.75 for an M5 Pro, with warm boots under a second unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	not stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Limits	request-rate $0.90 an hour for an M4, $1.40 for an M4 Pro and $1.75 for an M5 Pro source retention-clamped a snapshot of the disk state lets fresh clones start from the same point, so state is kept as an image rather than a paused machine source per-object-cap two VMs per Mac, with warm boots under a second source not stated
Binding	request-rate
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	not stated
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Evidence rung	documented the site was read on 2026-10-22 and states the hourly rates and the snapshot-and-clone behaviour. There is no free tier, so the record's USD 100 credit is not established and the verdict moves to paid-only
Checked	2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	use.computer/	not published
2026-10-22	use.computer/	'Real Apple Silicon Mac minis · 2 VMs per Mac · <1s warm boot · M4 $0.90/hr · M4 Pro $1.40/hr · M5 Pro $1.75/hr' with 'Seed a macOS sandbox once: install your tools, sign in, open your apps. Snapshot the disk state, then spin up fresh clones from that exact state', quoted

More fields (15)

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 "talaria_m10h_usd": 135.0,
 "talaria_m24h_usd": 324.0,
 "nemo_m10h_usd": null,
 "keep_rate": 1.0,
 "keep_rate_basis": null,
 "billing_model": "unclassified",
 "shape": {
  "vcpu": null,
  "ram": null,
  "disk": null,
  "gpu_class": "Apple M4",
  "gpu_count": 1,
  "note": "a real Mac mini with two VMs per Mac; M4, M4 Pro and M5 Pro are priced"
 },
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "warm boot under a second; the state answer is the snapshot-and-clone path rather than a paused VM"
 },
 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": null,
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "none",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 86400,
  "rounding_s": null
 },
 "ps": {
  "gib": null,
  "price": "disk state is snapshotted and cloned",
  "durability": "snapshot of the disk state",
  "on_stop": true,
  "on_destroy": false,
  "retention": "the snapshot"
 },
 "net": {
  "out": true,
  "in": true,
  "ports": null,
  "static_ip": null,
  "ipv6": null,
  "allowance": null
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (17)

$.chaining not-stated
$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.evidence[0].proved process
$.extras.keep_rate_basis process
$.extras.price_note process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note not-stated
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-stated
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-stated
$.tooling not-stated