Computer Use Agent Pricing Comparison: Why You're Paying Way Too Much

RPA Is Broken And Costs Are Rising

UiPath, Blue Prism, and Microsoft Power Automate all charge roughly $150 per bot per month for unattended desktop flows. That's per bot. If you run ten bots, you're paying $1,500 a month before you even add users. And here's the kicker: 30 to 50% of RPA projects fail before they ever scale past the pilot stage. The maintenance costs exceed the savings. That's not automation. That's a bad investment.

OpenAI Operator: $20 Per Month Of Failure

• ●Operator costs $20 per month for their Computer-Using Agent (CUA).
• ●On OSWorld benchmarks it scores only 38% success on complex desktop tasks.
• ●That means two out of every three tasks it attempts will fail.
• ●It's essentially paying for a fancy demo with no real reliability.

Anthropic Computer Use: Better Than OpenAI But Still Not Good Enough

Anthropic's Computer Use fares better with a 73% OSWorld score but still falls short. Their model is smarter on text but it's not a true desktop agent. It struggles with multi-step workflows, GUI navigation, and the kind of messy reality that real work involves. Anthropic charges based on their Claude API pricing which runs around $25 per million output tokens. Run a full day of automation and you're looking at hundreds of dollars in API costs alone.

The Hidden Costs No One Talks About

• ●RPA vendors charge extra for bots, users, and maintenance.
• ●Selector-based automation breaks when websites change even slightly.
• ●Computer use APIs bill you every time the agent sends an image or captures a screen.
• ●You end up paying for both the tool and the extra tokens required to make it work.

Why Coasty Exists

Here's the problem nobody wants to admit: most AI agents don't actually control desktops. They call APIs or pretend to be browsers. Coasty is different. It's a real computer use agent that runs on desktops, browsers, and cloud VMs. It doesn't just talk to services. It actually clicks, types, and navigates. On OSWorld it scores 82% which is higher than both OpenAI and Anthropic. That's not a rounding error. That's a massive gap in reliability and capability. Coasty also supports agent swarms so you can run multiple agents in parallel and scale up without rewriting your code. It has a free tier so you can try it before you commit. And it supports BYOK so you can bring your own key and avoid vendor lock in.

The Math Actually Works

Forget the hype. Look at the numbers. You're spending $150 per month on an RPA bot that breaks half the time. Switch to Coasty and you could run the same workflow with fewer bots, lower token costs, and higher success rates. You're not just saving money. You're actually getting more done. The people who figure this out first are going to leave everyone else in the dust.