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Macswarm compared with act101
DetailMacswarm logo Macswarmact101 logo act101
What it doesHosted Mac Pods with Xcode and iOS Simulators for Claude Code and Codex Quality infrastructure for AI-written code with deterministic refactoring and a merge gate
StageStartup Startup
Founded2026 2026
Based inUA US
Pricing modelFreemium Freemium
PricingFree: 3 Pod-hours once, no card needed. Pro: $99/month for 300 Pod-hours, $0.40 per extra Pod-hour. Team: $399/month for 1,500 Pod-hours, $0.30 per extra Pod-hour. Enterprise: from $3,000/month with dedicated Macs and no metered hours. Builder Edition: Free forever for personal, non-commercial, and open-source use. Engineering Edition: $29/month or $299/year (save 14%). Architecture Edition: $59/month or $599/year (save 15%). Elite Edition: $99/month or $999/year (save 16%). Enterprise: Custom pricing, contact sales. All editions
Key features
  • Latest Xcode in every Pod
  • iOS runtimes and pre-booted Simulators
  • Claude Code and Codex support
  • XcodeBuildMCP for build automation
  • Two-slot build queue
  • EU and US region selection
  • Per-second Pod-hour metering
  • 3 to 4 pre-booted Simulators per Pod
  • Isolated Pods destroyed after sessions
  • Audit log and usage by developer on Team plan
  • 182 AST-aware refactor operations for code transformation
  • 42 codebase analyzers for code analysis
  • Support for 163 programming grammars
  • Deterministic merge gate with signed receipts
  • MCP server and CLI interfaces
  • Cross-file import updates and automatic checkpointing
  • 10 cross-language porting operations
  • Instant undo for all operations
  • ~88% token savings on query operations
  • Native binary with zero dependencies and no supply chain risk
What makes it different
  • 2 to 3 agents per Pod guaranteed with no per-agent fees
  • Pods boot in seconds from warm pool
  • iOS Simulators included and already booted
  • Fresh isolated Pod for every session, destroyed after use
  • Deterministic verdicts and signed receipts for every code change ensure reproducible quality gates
  • Built by engineer with decades of production experience in correctness-critical domains
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)Not checked yet no change since last check27 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)08
Citation Flow (Majestic)031
Referring domains (Majestic)0182

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