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Remotion SSR options — including the Mac pool path docs omit.
Remotion’s official SSR comparison covers Lambda, Cloud Run, Vercel Sandbox, and Node APIs. Buyers evaluating macOS-native Chromium and VideoToolbox still need a fourth column: an Apple Silicon pool behind a typed API.
Lambda can win on massive parallel fan-out. Tiny containers lose wall-clock on our 2026-07-22 bakeoffs. Mac pools fit macOS-native Remotion and VideoToolbox adjacency. We have not published a same-composition Lambda bakeoff yet.
| Path | You operate | macOS / VT | RenderMac evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remotion Lambda | Your AWS account | No | No same-composition bakeoff yet |
| Cloud Run / custom SSR | Your GCP/server | Usually no | Architecture only |
| Tiny cloud containers | Vendor shape | No | MEASURED slow walls + rate-card $ |
| Apple Silicon pool (RenderMac) | Typed API | Yes | MEASURED Mac vs CF containers |
Do not treat this table as a latency SLA. Lambda fan-out can still win huge parallel jobs. Read Apple Silicon vs Lambda and Remotion bakeoff.
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