Your $99 Apple developer account hides 1PB CloudKit, 25hrs CI/mo and an on-device LLM
vincent_koc · x · 2026-11-03
A dev breakdown of what the $99/year Apple developer account actually includes: 25 compute hours/month of Xcode Cloud CI/CD, up to 1PB of free CloudKit iCloud storage per app, 200GB Apple-hosted Background Assets downloads, 500K WeatherKit calls/month, 10,000 TestFlight testers, on-device Foundation Models LLM with no API keys, and 15% commission via the Small Business Program. The author argues most indie devs pay elsewhere for half of these.
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