How Apple's leasing terms make dedicated Mac rental legal

“Is renting a Mac for CI even allowed?” Yes — and it's not a loophole. Apple's macOS Software License Agreement has a provision for leasing a Mac for permitted developer services. The trick is building the product so every lease stays inside it.

What the terms require

• A whole machine, one lessee. No multi-tenanting a Mac. Every MacRun unit is one customer, full stop.
• Short but real terms. Monthly billing satisfies the minimum-term rules trivially.
• Developer services only. Building, testing, signing your own software — not general compute, not a render farm.

How we encode it

Compliance isn't a promise, it's the architecture:

• One customer per unit is enforced in the lease state machine.
• Billing is monthly-only.
• The AUP restricts use to developer services and bans abuse; violations trip an automatic suspend.
• You accept Apple's macOS license at checkout, and on turnover the box is wiped to a clean golden image.

Read the plain-language terms — the compliance points are called out by section.