Cua Fleets vs Vercel Sandbox

Cua Fleets costs $0.044625 per vCPU-hour and Vercel Sandbox costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Cua Fleets runs gVisor. Vercel Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Cua Fleets

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Vercel Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
5 CPU-hours every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Cua Fleets
Vercel Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
Storage
Cua Fleets: Free
Vercel Sandbox: On Pro, snapshots $0.08 per GB-month and drives $0.05 per GB-month (beta).
Billing
Cua Fleets: Per second
Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Cua Fleets: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation
Cua Fleets: gVisor
Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Pause and resume
Cua Fleets: No
Vercel Sandbox:
SDKs
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
Storage
Cua Fleets: Free
Vercel Sandbox: On Pro, snapshots $0.08 per GB-month and drives $0.05 per GB-month (beta).
Free tier
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
Paid plan from
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
Cua Fleets: Per second
Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Cua Fleets: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000

Platform

Isolation
Cua Fleets: gVisor
Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Cua Fleets: No
Vercel Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Cua Fleets: Your AWS, Google Cloud, or Modal account
Vercel Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Cua Fleets
Vercel Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Cua Fleets: $0.089
Vercel Sandbox: $0.170
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Cua Fleets: $0.179
Vercel Sandbox: $0.341
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Cua Fleets: $0.357
Vercel Sandbox: $0.682

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Cua Fleets fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.179 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Vercel Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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