{
  "id": "cua",
  "name": "Cua",
  "category": "infrastructure",
  "summary": "Open-source computer-use platform: full desktops for agents (Cua Spaces), a desktop-automation driver with MCP, local macOS/Linux VMs (Lume) and Cua Bench.",
  "description": "**Cua Spaces** gives agents macOS VMs built locally on a Mac or Linux images, on your own machines or cloud account, with shared human/agent cursors and \"teleport\" of signed-in apps. **Cua Driver** lets agents inspect and operate native apps and browsers on macOS, Windows and Linux via CLI, MCP or typed SDKs. Also includes **Lume** (local VMs), the `cua` SDK/CLI for sandboxes, CUA-S1 small models for computer-use decisions and **Cua Bench** for tasks and evaluation. Licensing: MIT for the SDK, CLI, Driver, Lume and most of the repo; Cua Spaces and Cua Driver Bench are source-available under FSL-1.1-MIT. Spaces is free (up to 2 live sessions and 20 remote hours a month), Pro is $18/month and Teams $30/seat/month.",
  "url": "https://cua.ai/",
  "repo": "https://github.com/trycua/cua",
  "docs": "https://cua.ai/docs",
  "tags": [
    "computer-use",
    "desktop",
    "sandbox",
    "vm",
    "mcp",
    "macos"
  ],
  "license": "MIT AND FSL-1.1-MIT",
  "pricing": "freemium",
  "status": "active",
  "agent_access": {
    "llms_txt": "https://cua.ai/docs/llms.txt",
    "notes": "Cua Driver MCP setup: https://cua.ai/docs/cua-driver/guides/connect-your-agent"
  },
  "related": [
    "e2b-desktop",
    "osworld",
    "microsandbox",
    "anchor-browser"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/trycua/cua",
    "https://cua.ai/pricing",
    "https://cua.ai/docs/llms.txt",
    "https://pypi.org/project/cua-agent/"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-19",
  "updated": "2026-10-19",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-19",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "maintainer": "Cua (trycua)",
  "longform": [
    {
      "type": "comparison",
      "id": "self-hosted-agent-sandboxes",
      "title": "Self-hosted sandboxes for agents compared",
      "url": "https://indexagentica.com/compare/self-hosted-agent-sandboxes/",
      "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/longform/compare/self-hosted-agent-sandboxes.json"
    },
    {
      "type": "comparison",
      "id": "agent-benchmarks",
      "title": "Agent benchmarks compared",
      "url": "https://indexagentica.com/compare/agent-benchmarks/",
      "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/longform/compare/agent-benchmarks.json"
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/cua/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/cua.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/cua.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/infrastructure/cua.json"
  }
}