Side by side
| Your laptop | Cloud computer (Uno) | |
|---|---|---|
| When you close the lid | Programs stop when it sleeps | The agent keeps working |
| Where its mistakes land | Your files, your logins | A computer of its own |
| Cost | Hardware you already own | From $5 a month |
| One task at a time | Geekbench 6 single-core: MacBook Air M2 about 2600, M4 about 3700 | 2,049 |
| Many tasks at once | Geekbench 6 multi-core: Air M2 9,684, Air M4 14,924 | 10,449 with 8 vCPU, 15,488 with 16 vCPU |
| Your files | Right there | Upload them, or keep them in cloud storage |
| Without internet | Works | Does not |
| Address websites see | Your home or office address | A data-center address, or a Clean exit IP of your own |
| Several agents at once | They share one machine and slow it down | Each can have a computer of its own |
A machine with 4 vCPU that stays reachable, per month
Uno Plus against what the same class costs elsewhere, in $ per month. Prices checked 2026-10-01.
Show as a table
| Option | $ per month | Shape |
|---|---|---|
| Uno Plus | 20 | 4 vCPU · 4 GB · sleeps when idle, keeps memory |
| Mainstream cloud VPS | 40–56 | DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, Lightsail · 4 vCPU / 8 GB shared |
| Agent sandboxes with live memory | 196–345 | E2B, Morph, Fly Sprites, CodeSandbox · 4 vCPU / 4 GB |
When the lid closes
A laptop that goes to sleep stops its programs, and an agent in the middle of a build stops with them. On a cloud computer the agent keeps working when the laptop is closed. You come back to a finished result, from any browser.
Your files and your mistakes
An agent on your laptop works as you. It can read your documents, use your browser logins and delete files. Most of the time that is fine. Once in a while a wrong command is not.
On a cloud computer the agent sees only what you put there. A wrong step costs you a reset of that computer, not your photos or your work folder. Keep real secrets off it, and move files you want to keep to cloud storage.
Is the cloud slower?
For one task at a time, a recent MacBook core is faster than one of ours, as the table shows. For many things at once it is close: a Uno computer with 8 vCPU scores about like a MacBook Air M2, and one with 16 vCPU about like a MacBook Air M4, in multi-core Geekbench.
A second MacBook in the cloud, for $70 a month
Pro gives you 16 vCPU and 16 GB: the speed of a MacBook Air M4 that keeps working while your own laptop is closed.
16 vCPU · 16 GB · 120 GB disk
Your agent gets a clean address of its own
Your computer runs in the Netherlands. Its traffic can leave through a static address of a regular internet provider in one of 8 countries. Only your account works from that address.
- From a data-center address
- Sites see a server range shared with thousands of strangers. The agent's browser hits more captchas and blocks.
- From your Clean exit IP
- Sites see a regular internet provider's address in the country you picked. Fewer captchas, and less reason for Claude or ChatGPT to flag your account: nobody else works from it.
Where the cloud is worse
- One task at a time, your MacBook is faster. Geekbench 6 single-core is 2,049 on an Uno computer and about 2600 on a MacBook Air M2.
- It needs the internet. A laptop works on a plane.
- Your files are not there. You upload them or work from cloud storage, which is one more step.
- It costs money, from $5 a month. Your laptop is already paid for.
- Our vCPU are shared, not dedicated, and there is one region for paid plans today: the Netherlands.
A computer for the long jobs, from $5 a month
Every plan is a real Linux computer with root and Docker. Move up or down any time; your files come with you.
Small
A Telegram bot, a VPN, a small backend
$5/ month
- 1 vCPU · 1 GB
- 15 GB disk
- 25 GB cloud storage
- 5 boosts a month
Plus
Agents that work with your laptop closed
$20/ month
- 4 vCPU · 4 GB
- 40 GB disk
- 100 GB cloud storage
- Uno Work in the cloud
Pro
A product in production, a second MacBook
$70/ month
- 16 vCPU · 16 GB
- 120 GB disk
- 300 GB cloud storage
- Speed of a MacBook Air M4
Max
A team and many agents at once
$200/ month
- 32 vCPU · 48 GB
- 300 GB disk
- 1,024 GB cloud storage
- 5 public IPv4
Add Uno AI to any plan: 40 h of AI work a month on Small, 100 h on Plus, unlimited on Max. Today: GLM-5.3 Flash and MiMo v2.6 Pro. Or sign in with your own Claude or ChatGPT.