macrenderfarmReserve list

mac render farm · us · apple silicon

Burst Mac compute, four hours at a time.

A rack of dedicated Mac Studios for the jobs your laptop shouldn't be doing. Blender and Redshift renders, Final Cut exports, Xcode CI, App Store submission runs. M2 Max to M4 Ultra, from $7.99 a slot.

Capacity is still being racked. Every node below is Not available. The reserve list is the queue.

01

Bare metal, not a VM

One job per box, per slot. No hypervisor between your renderer and the silicon, no shared core count to reason about.

02

Unified memory instead of VRAM math

Scene and model both live in the same pool. 32GB on the M2 Max, 96GB on the M3 Ultra, 128GB or 256GB on the M4 Ultra.

03

Real macOS for the jobs that require it

Xcode, xcodebuild, notarisation, Final Cut, Motion, Compressor. The work that legally and practically has to happen on Apple hardware, without a Mac on your desk.

04

Per-slot pricing, no reservation floor

$7.99 M2 Max 32GB. $10.99 M3 Ultra 96GB. $14.99 M4 Ultra 128GB. $19.99 M4 Ultra 256GB. Four-hour slots. Nothing renews.

hardware

Nodes in the farm

Six configurations. Prices per four-hour slot. Availability: none — reserve list only.

node

M2-MAX-32-512

Not available
chip
M2 Max
unified memory
32GB
storage
512GB SSD
slot
4h
price / slot
$7.99

The workhorse. Xcode builds, CI runners, mid-size model inference.

node

M2-MAX-32-1TB

Not available
chip
M2 Max
unified memory
32GB
storage
1TB SSD
slot
4h
price / slot
$7.99

Same silicon, double the scratch space for large checkouts and caches.

node

M3-ULTRA-96-1TB

Not available
chip
M3 Ultra
unified memory
96GB
storage
1TB SSD
slot
4h
price / slot
$10.99

Unified-memory headroom for 70B-class local models and heavy renders.

node

M4-ULTRA-128-1TB

Not available
chip
M4 Ultra
unified memory
128GB
storage
1TB SSD
slot
4h
price / slot
$14.99

Current-generation Ultra. Fastest single-box Apple silicon we rent.

node

M4-ULTRA-128-2TB

Not available
chip
M4 Ultra
unified memory
128GB
storage
2TB SSD
slot
4h
price / slot
$14.99

For datasets that do not fit on a 1TB volume alongside your toolchain.

node

M4-ULTRA-256-2TB

Not available
chip
M4 Ultra
unified memory
256GB
storage
2TB SSD
slot
4h
price / slot
$19.99

Maximum unified memory. Multi-model workloads without swapping.

process

Three steps per slot

01

Size the node

Pick by memory, not by marketing. Big scenes, long timelines and large local models take the Ultra tiers; build and test jobs usually don't.

02

Take the slot, get root

SSH and Screen Sharing credentials at slot start. Clean current macOS. Bring your own toolchain, runner, licences and cache — install script, brew bundle, whatever you already use.

03

Pull your output, we wipe the box

Copy artefacts off before the window closes. At slot end the machine is erased and re-imaged. Nothing you left behind survives, including anything you meant to keep.

The queue is the product until the rack is full.

Tell us the node you want, the workload, and how many slots a week you'd burn. The list is worked in order and we email once, when that hardware is live.

Join the reserve list