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Cloud desktops for computer-use agents in 2026

For a computer-use agent that needs a desktop that stays on, use a Prized box: an Ubuntu VM with an XFCE desktop, Chrome and xdotool preinstalled, which you watch and take over from your browser, with no limit on how long it runs, for $0.068 an hour at 2 vCPU and 8 GB. Orgo costs less an hour for an always-on desktop and runs Windows too. E2B Desktop and Daytona create desktops from an SDK, billed per second. AWS and Microsoft sell Windows desktops for agents, and Browserbase hosts browsers, not desktops.

Claude’s and OpenAI’s computer use tools both leave the desktop to you: your code takes the screenshot and carries out each click and keystroke (Anthropic, OpenAI; OpenAI can also host a browser). So the choice is where that desktop runs.

Side by side

Cloud desktops for computer-use agents
DesktopRuns forPrice an hour
Prized boxUbuntu, XFCE, ChromeStays on, no limit$0.068 (Extra Small, 2 vCPU, 8 GB)
OrgoLinux; Windows on Scale or as an add-on; MacUntil you stop it$0.055 (Medium, 2 vCPU, 8 GB)
DaytonaLinux; Windows, macOSStops after 15 idle minutes by defaultAbout $0.23 (2 vCPU, 8 GB)
E2B DesktopUbuntu, XFCE1 hour on Hobby, 24 on ProAbout $0.53 (its 8 vCPU, 8 GB template)
Windows 365 for AgentsWindows Cloud PCsPer task; $5 a month keeps one ready$0.40 a Cloud PC hour (US), rounded up
AWS WorkSpaces for AI agentsWindowsUntil the agent disconnects or goes idle$0.05 session fee plus the instance (from $0.10)
BrowserbaseA browser, no desktop15 minutes on Free$0.12 a browser-hour past 100 ($20 plan)

List prices before tax. E2B’s is a per-second rate worked out to the hour, Daytona’s its per-vCPU and per-GiB hourly rates added up, and AWS adds a Windows user fee of $4.19 to $6.42 a month. Asleep, a Prized Extra Small bills only its disk, $0.015 an hour, and $50 a month runs it around the clock (Pricing).

Pick one

  • A Linux desktop that stays on, with a coding agent beside it: a Prized box. Claude Code and Codex are preinstalled, and the agent’s loop runs on the box, so it keeps going with your laptop closed.
  • An always-on desktop for less, or Windows: Orgo.
  • A desktop per run, from an SDK: E2B Desktop or Daytona.
  • Windows apps under your company’s identity and policy: AWS WorkSpaces for AI agents or Windows 365 for Agents.
  • Web pages only: Browserbase, or headless Chrome on a Prized box.

Give your agent a desktop on a box

Sign up and pick Extra Small or Small: the tour starts the box on $30 of free credit, with no card, and shows the command that installs the CLI; the plain installer is curl -fsSL https://prized.dev/install.sh | sh (Quickstart). Then open the desktop from your machine, with your box’s name for mango:

prized desktop mango

It opens in the box’s Desktop tab, where you can take the mouse and keyboard at any time. The agent drives the same screen from a shell on the box, with scrot for screenshots and xdotool for clicks and keys on DISPLAY=:10 (Let an agent drive it), or through apps’ accessibility trees with agent-desktop.

Common questions

Can Claude’s computer use tool drive a box?

Yes. Your loop on the box takes each screenshot with scrot and turns each action Claude asks for into an xdotool command.

Does it keep working with my laptop closed?

Yes, when the agent runs on the box. On the free credit an idle box pauses after 2 hours, never in its first 24; prized box auto-pause mango off keeps it up (Auto-pause).

Windows or macOS?

A box runs Linux only. For Windows: Orgo, Windows 365 for Agents, AWS WorkSpaces for AI agents, or Daytona from its Tier 3, on request. For macOS: Orgo’s Macs while in stock, or Daytona’s Mac minis, reserved by the day.

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Every page here was read on November 7, 2026.