BoxLite Cloud vs Cua Fleets

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Cua Fleets costs $0.044625 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Cua Fleets runs gVisor.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

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.

BoxLite Cloud
Cua Fleets
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Cua Fleets: Free
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Cua Fleets: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Cua Fleets: gVisor
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Cua Fleets: No
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Cua Fleets: Free
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Cua Fleets: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Cua Fleets: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Cua Fleets: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Cua Fleets: gVisor
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Cua Fleets: No

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Cua Fleets: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Your AWS, Google Cloud, or Modal account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Cua Fleets
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Cua Fleets: $0.089
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Cua Fleets: $0.179
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Cua Fleets: $0.357

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.179 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

Cua Fleets fits when

  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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