BoxCompute vs Cua Fleets

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Cua Fleets costs $0.044625 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Cua Fleets runs gVisor.

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BoxCompute

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Max session
42 hours

Cua Fleets

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

BoxCompute
Cua Fleets
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Cua Fleets: Per second
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Cua Fleets: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Cua Fleets: gVisor
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Cua Fleets: No
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Free
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Cua Fleets: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Cua Fleets: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
Cua Fleets: gVisor
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
Cua Fleets: No

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
Cua Fleets: Your AWS, Google Cloud, or Modal account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
Cua Fleets
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
Cua Fleets: $0.089
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
Cua Fleets: $0.179
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
Cua Fleets: $0.357

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need pause and resume.

Cua Fleets fits when

  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.179 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2.

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