Comparison · M1 vs CF

M1 Air still crushed the small CF Remotion shape we measured.

You do not need Max silicon to beat a 0.5 vCPU Remotion container in our bakeoff. M1 Air finished LongKinetic3m about 15–16× faster than CF live (133.7–145.6 s vs 2175.3 s).

JobOutputM2 MaxM1 Silver1M1 Silver2CF live
LongKinetic3m3:00 (5400 f)111.5 s133.7 s145.6 s2175.3 s
LongKinetic20m20:00 (36000 f)679.5 s--14502 s PROJECTED

LongKinetic20m CF column is PROJECTED (×20/3 from measured 3-minute CF live). Method: benchmark methodology.

Fleet context: M1 speed page.

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