boxes.dev vs Cua Fleets

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Cua Fleets costs $0.044625 per vCPU-hour. Cua Fleets runs gVisor.

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boxes.dev

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Max session
Not listed

Cua Fleets

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Cua Fleets
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Cua Fleets: Per second
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Cua Fleets: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Free
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Cua Fleets: Per second

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cua Fleets: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Cua Fleets: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cua Fleets: gVisor
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Cua Fleets: No

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Your AWS, Google Cloud, or Modal account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Cua Fleets
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Cua Fleets: $0.089
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Cua Fleets: $0.179
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Cua Fleets: $0.357

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

Cua Fleets fits when

  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.179 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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