ComposiovsCua
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Composio
Composio · Agent framework
OSSMCP
Panel
6.81 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.5
- Usefulness
- 7.3
- Cost
- 6.5
- Longevity
- 7.0
“It ships triggers, so your agent can now be woken up by an email like the rest of us.”
Cua
Cua · Agent framework
OSSMCP
Panel
6.82 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.7
- Usefulness
- 7.2
- Cost
- 6.7
- Longevity
- 6.8
“It drives Linux, macOS, Windows and Android, so there is finally an agent that can ignore a notification on every platform you own.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Composio | Cua |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent framework | Agent framework |
| Runs | local, cloud | local, cloud, sandbox |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows, web | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | No |
| MCP server | Yes | Yes |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | No | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | No | No |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | No |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | any | any |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | No | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | mixed | mixed |
| Starts at | $29/mo | n/a |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 30,394 | 27,707 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Composio | Cua | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.3 | 7.0 | Composio — Pick Composio when your agent has to act as each individual user in Gmail or Jira; pick n8n if you want the workflow around those actions as well. |
| El Crítico | 6.8 | 6.5 | Composio — It sits in the authentication path for every application it connects, so one incident there is one incident across every integration you shipped, at once. |
| El Profesor | 6.5 | 6.8 | Cua — Cua-Bench evaluates agents on OSWorld, ScreenSpot and Windows Arena, which are third-party suites, and the record carries no scores from any of them. |
| La Inversora | 7.3 | 6.3 | Composio — A $29 plan that includes $29 of usage is a subscription disguised as a meter, and the real moat is the accumulated authorisation between their service and your users. |
| La Jefa | 6.5 | 6.0 | Composio — There is no seat price to multiply; the meter is 100K tool calls free and $0.0003 after that, which is a forecast rather than a budget line. |
| El Hacker | 6.8 | 8.5 | Cua — MIT, pip install cua, a driver install script, an MCP server so my own client can drive a desktop, and QEMU or Apple Virtualization locally with no cloud account. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.