Comparison
AEQI vs Cube Computer
Cube rents your coding agents an always-on Linux machine. AEQI provisions a company: roles, a ledger, a website, and memory, on infrastructure it hosts for you.
September 10, 2026 · Luca Eich
Choose Cube if you are a developer and the only thing between you and longer agent runs is a laptop that has to stay open and on wifi at all times.
Choose AEQI if the thing that needs to exist is the company rather than the computer — roles, a ledger, and the non-code half of a business already wired up around the code.
What Cube is
Cube’s homepage describes it as “a cloud computer for running coding agents” (as of September 2026), built on the reasoning that running agents locally means “keeping your laptop open and on wifi at all times.” The product is a full Linux computer — one-click setup, a dedicated desktop development environment — fronted by an app that unifies cloud and local sessions in one sidebar and scaffolds one git worktree per agent. The unit of the product is the machine: as of September 2026, plans are $25, $50, and $100 a month (named Anodized, Stainless, and Titanium) for 2, 4, and 6 CPUs, with a 7-day free trial for eligible new customers.
Side by side
| Question | Cube | AEQI |
|---|---|---|
| Who it's for | Developers running coding agents who want a machine that stays on without a laptop | Founders who want a whole company running, not only a development machine |
| Where it lives | A hosted Debian machine, fronted by a desktop app with a sidebar of sessions | A hosted Company, with its own live website |
| Agents and roles | None; you bring your own agent CLI (Claude Code, OpenCode, and others) and sign it in | Ten officer agents in named roles — CEO, CTO, COO, CFO, CMO, CRO, CPO, Chief of Staff, General Counsel, Founder’s Associate |
| Memory | Not published; git worktrees and sessions persist per project, not as shared memory | A shared memory across the Company; mail, decisions, and quests are linked |
| Channels | None published; the product is a development machine, not an inbox | One inbox across Email, Slack, Teams, Telegram, and WhatsApp |
| Hosting and data | A hosted Debian machine per plan; data residency not published | One hosted Company per customer, on its own server in Germany (EU data residency) |
| Pricing | $25, $50, or $100 a month for 2, 4, or 6 CPUs | €50, €200, or €800 a month for 1, 4, or 16 seats; annual is 2 months free |
| Trial | 7-day free trial for eligible new customers | 3-day free trial; 33% off Personal for 3 months through 31 October 2026 |
| Best for | Keeping coding agents running without a laptop open | Running the business itself, code and everything around it |
Cube is the better choice when
- You are a developer whose only problem is that agents stop when the laptop sleeps or the wifi drops — Cube is an always-on Debian machine built for exactly that, and it ships fast: eight versions in ten days in late August 2026.
- You want one git worktree scaffolded per agent automatically, so sessions never queue for a working directory, laid out on a spatial canvas that shows several running at once, with per-session cost and context visible in the status bar.
- You want to keep using your own agent CLI — Claude Code, OpenCode, GPT, or another — signed into your own GitHub repositories, and want CPUs, memory, and storage to step up together as you scale (6 to 12 GB of memory, 50 to 250 GB of storage across the three plans).
AEQI is the better choice when
- The work is not only a repository — it includes the website, the inbox, and the sales and operations work that never touches a terminal, like the pricing page and the sales conversation that follows it, none of which a rented Linux machine can help with.
- You want roles instead of sessions: named agents with their own permissions who can delegate to each other, each running its own model per seat — Claude Code, OpenCode, Hermes, pi, or the AEQI runtime — rather than a sidebar of parallel windows you steer by hand.
- You want a ledger of what was decided and on whose authority, open and auditable, rather than a scrollback that disappears when the session ends, with nothing published, sent, or paid without first passing your Decisions pane.
- You are not a developer and don’t want to sign an agent CLI into a GitHub repository just to get started — describing the business is enough, with API, MCP, and CLI access there if you outgrow the interface.
The difference in one sentence
Cube gives your agents somewhere to run — a computer, provisioned, always on, and loaded with whichever CLI you already use; AEQI gives them something to run — a company, with named roles, a ledger, and the non-code half of a business, from website to inbox, already wired up around it.
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Last verified 14 September 2026. Competitor facts are quoted from their public pages on that date.