Cua Fleets vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

Cua Fleets costs $0.044625 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Cua Fleets runs gVisor. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Cua Fleets

Hosted Linux and Windows sandboxes for computer-use agents.

Isolation: gVisor
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Cua Fleets profile

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolated cloud machines for running AI-generated code.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: 24 hours

Visit site Hugging Face Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

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Cua Fleets

Hugging Face Sandboxes

vCPU, per hour: Cua Fleets: $0.044625; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour: Cua Fleets: $0.0223125; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing: Cua Fleets: Per second; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Isolation: Cua Fleets: gVisor; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs: Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Cua Fleetscua.ai/#pricing

Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co/docs/hub/jobs-pricinghuggingface.co

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Cua Fleets: $0.044625; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour: Cua Fleets: $0.0223125; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage: Cua Fleets: Free; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier: Cua Fleets: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from: Cua Fleets: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing: Cua Fleets: Per second; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Cua Fleets: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop: Cua Fleets: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox: Cua Fleets: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: Cua Fleets: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Cua Fleets: gVisor; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU: Cua Fleets: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots: Cua Fleets: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume: Cua Fleets: No; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs: Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations: Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License: Cua Fleets: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: Cua Fleets: Your AWS, Google Cloud, or Modal account; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Cua Fleets

Hugging Face Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Cua Fleets: $0.089; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Cua Fleets: $0.179; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Cua Fleets: $0.357; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

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 SOC 2.

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

You need GPUs.
You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.179 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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