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"", "in_stock": null, "fresh": true, "source_url": "https://www.macduty.com/" }, { "provider": "Mac Mini Vault", "plan": "M5 Pro 512GB", "monthly_usd": 259.99, "list_price": 259.99, "currency": "USD", "memory": "48 GB", "storage": "512GB", "in_stock": null, "fresh": true, "source_url": "https://www.macminivault.com/dedicated-mac-mini/" }, { "provider": "Mac Mini Vault", "plan": "M5 Pro 1TB", "monthly_usd": 359.99, "list_price": 359.99, "currency": "USD", "memory": "64 GB", "storage": "1TB", "in_stock": null, "fresh": true, "source_url": "https://www.macminivault.com/dedicated-mac-mini/" }, { "provider": "MacWeb", "plan": "Ultimate M5 Pro", "monthly_usd": 599, "list_price": 599, "currency": "USD", "memory": "", "storage": "", "in_stock": false, "fresh": true, "source_url": "https://macweb.com/macmini" } ] }, "m6": { "name": "Mac mini M6", "our_price_usd": { "hourly": 0.14, "daily": 2.6, "monthly": 57, "yearly": 570 }, "lowest_competitor": { "provider": "MacDuty", "plan": "Mac mini M6 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"monthly_usd": 194.99, "list_price": 194.99, "currency": "USD", "memory": "32 GB", "storage": "1TB", "in_stock": null, "fresh": true, "source_url": "https://www.macminivault.com/dedicated-mac-mini/" }, { "provider": "MacWeb", "plan": "Power M6", "monthly_usd": 299, "list_price": 299, "currency": "USD", "memory": "", "storage": "", "in_stock": false, "fresh": true, "source_url": "https://macweb.com/macmini" } ] } }, "sources": [ { "id": "macstadium", "name": "MacStadium", "url": "https://www.macstadium.com/pricing", "status": "ok", "last_check": "2026-11-04T23:20:02+03:00", "last_success": "2026-11-04T23:20:02+03:00", "note": "Unchanged (HTTP 304); cached copy used." }, { "id": "macweb", "name": "MacWeb", "url": "https://macweb.com/macmini", "status": "ok", "last_check": "2026-11-04T23:20:07+03:00", "last_success": "2026-11-04T23:20:07+03:00", "note": "Read." }, { "id": "macminivault", "name": "Mac Mini Vault", "url": "https://www.macminivault.com/dedicated-mac-mini/", "status": "ok", "last_check": "2026-11-04T23:20:09+03:00", "last_success": "2026-11-04T23:20:09+03:00", "note": "Read." }, { "id": "neolo", "name": "Neolo", "url": "https://www.neolo.com/usa/mac-mini-hosting/", "status": "ok", "last_check": "2026-11-04T23:20:09+03:00", "last_success": "2026-11-04T23:20:09+03:00", "note": "Unchanged (HTTP 304); cached copy used." }, { "id": "macduty", "name": "MacDuty", "url": "https://www.macduty.com/", "status": "ok", "last_check": "2026-11-04T23:20:14+03:00", "last_success": "2026-11-04T23:20:14+03:00", "note": "Read." }, { "id": "scaleway", "name": "Scaleway", "url": "https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/apple-silicon/", "status": "atlandi", "last_check": null, "last_success": null, "note": "Bot verification (HTTP 403): not read automatically, skipped by rule." }, { "id": "oakhost", "name": "OakHost", "url": "https://www.oakhost.net/", "status": "atlandi", "last_check": null, "last_success": null, "note": "Prices are only loaded by a browser script, so they cannot be read automatically." }, { "id": "macincloud", "name": "MacinCloud", "url": "https://www.macincloud.com/", "status": "atlandi", "last_check": null, "last_success": null, "note": "Shared or virtual Mac plans; not comparable with a dedicated Mac mini." }, { "id": "hostmyapple", "name": "HostMyApple", "url": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/", "status": "atlandi", "last_check": null, "last_success": null, "note": "The home page only shows a starting price for virtual (VPS) plans; dedicated plan prices are not shown openly." }, { "id": "aws", "name": "AWS EC2 Mac", "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/", "status": "atlandi", "last_check": null, "last_success": null, "note": "The price list is delivered through a large bulk API and has a 24-hour minimum allocation; may be added later." } ], "method": { "rule": "Our monthly price = the lowest matching dedicated-competitor monthly list price x 0.5 (rounded down). The owner approves it daily by Telegram; without approval the price does not change. If the published price is above half of the lowest competitor in the latest scan, the \"50% cheaper\" claim for that model is hidden automatically.", "frequency": "Hourly. Conditional requests (ETag / If-Modified-Since), 20-second timeout per source, exponential back-off after errors, robots.txt respected, sources behind bot verification are skipped. A source that cannot be read keeps its last successful data for at most 24 hours.", "matching": "Mac mini only; the chip family must match (M4 and M4 Pro are separate). For each source the lowest configuration price for that chip is used; memory and storage are shown for information. Plans shown as out of stock or coming soon are included at their public list price and flagged. Mac Studio, Max/Ultra, Intel and shared or virtual plans are excluded. Monthly prices outside a plausible range are treated as parsing errors and ignored.", "currency": "EUR prices are converted to USD at the ECB daily rate (frankfurter.app); the rate and its date are published. If no rate newer than 7 days is available, EUR sources are not used. Prices exclude tax.", "average": "Informational only: the arithmetic mean of each source's lowest price for the model; it does not set our price." }, "pages": { "comparison_en": "https://coremacs.com/en/price-comparison/", "comparison_tr": "https://coremacs.com/fiyat-karsilastirma/", "service_en": "https://coremacs.com/en/", "service_tr": "https://coremacs.com/tr/", "guide_en": "https://coremacs.com/en/cheapest-mac-hosting/" } }