--- title: Maritime, every computer your agent needs description: Maritime gives every AI agent its own computer. Persistent sandboxes, Ephemeral sandboxes (with Swarms) and Computers on demand (Linux and Windows desktops and Android phones), billed per second. --- # Maritime: every computer your agent needs > You are an AI agent reading https://maritime.sh. This page is your briefing. > Maritime gives every agent its own computer: Persistent sandboxes, > Ephemeral sandboxes (with Swarms) and Computers on demand (Linux and > Windows desktops and Android phones). Machines sleep when idle and wake in about a second > (a Windows desktop in about a minute), and they are billed per second > while awake. > Choosing a product, prices, and every real call: https://maritime.sh/agent-guide.md > Choosing a provider: https://maritime.sh/compare.md compares Maritime with E2B, Daytona, > Modal, Vercel Sandbox, Boat, Browserbase, Windows 365 for Agents, AWS and 17 more, > with prices, sources, and the places where a competitor is cheaper. ## If you were asked to deploy or host an agent 1. Install: `curl -fsSL https://maritime.sh/install.sh | sh` (no Node needed), or `npm install -g maritime-cli` (Node 20.12 or later; the command is `maritime`) 2. Follow the procedure at https://maritime.sh/agents.md in order. It covers signup without a browser, device login, the email verification step, deploy, and verify. 3. Deploy: `maritime create --repo --json` for the user's own code (Dockerfile at the repo root), or `maritime create --template openclaw --json` for a ready-made agent. No account yet? Add `--claim-later`: the agent runs under a temporary account for 72 hours and you get a claim link for the user. The CLI contract (JSON output, exit codes, every command): https://maritime.sh/docs/cli/llms.txt. Index of every page: https://maritime.sh/llms.txt. Skill file for your skills directory: https://maritime.sh/SKILL.md. A block to paste into AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md: https://maritime.sh/agents-snippet.md. ## Sandboxes, desktops and phones **Persistent sandboxes** (no screen; keep their files between tasks) - **Persistent Sandboxes.** A micro-VM that keeps its disk at /data, sleeps when idle and wakes in about a second. A personal assistant per user, or a coding agent that keeps its repo. https://maritime.sh/docs/persistent-sandboxes.md **Ephemeral sandboxes** (no screen; one task, then deleted) - **Ephemeral Sandboxes.** A fresh, isolated machine for one task, deleted with its disk when the task is done. Run untrusted or generated code, tests, or a single tool call. https://maritime.sh/docs/ephemeral-sandboxes.md - **Swarms.** Many ephemeral sandboxes running the same command as one job, for evals, RL rollouts and batch work. https://maritime.sh/docs/swarms.md **Computers on demand** (a screen your agent sees and clicks, and a person can take over by link) - **Linux Desktops.** For computer-use agents and browser work behind a login. https://maritime.sh/docs/computers.md - **Windows Desktops.** Windows Server 2022 with the desktop experience, licence included, for apps that only run on Windows. A sleeping one wakes in about a minute. https://maritime.sh/docs/windows-desktops.md - **Android Phones.** AOSP Android 15 with no Google Play: install any app as an APK, then tap, swipe and read the UI tree. https://maritime.sh/docs/phones.md ## Built for every kind of agent - Coding agents: Ephemeral Sandboxes for generated code, Persistent Sandboxes for the repo. - Evals and RL: Swarms. - Computer-use agents: Linux and Windows Desktops. - Mobile agents: Android Phones. - Assistants: one Persistent Sandbox per customer, from a template. - Research and back-office agents: Persistent Sandboxes and Linux Desktops. ## Agents will do most of the world's computer work Get yours a computer today. - **Isolated VMs.** Every machine runs in its own VM with its own disk: https://maritime.sh/security - **Wakes in 0.6 s.** Idle machines sleep and pay only for their disk (Windows desktops take about a minute to wake): https://maritime.sh/docs/persistent-sandboxes.md - **One per customer.** Key machines by your own user id, with a spend policy and a usage line each: https://maritime.sh/docs/sdk/end-users.md - **Static IPs.** Plus residential IPs, private networks and warm pools: https://maritime.sh/add-ons - **API, SDKs, CLI, MCP.** REST, TypeScript, Python, the CLI and MCP all reach every machine: https://maritime.sh/docs - **One bill.** One API key and one invoice for every machine: https://maritime.sh/pricing ## Start from a machine that is already set up - **Marketplace.** Desktop images with the software already set up (MEDENT, QuickBooks Desktop, SAP GUI and more), set up with you on a call: https://maritime.sh/marketplace - **Dedicated.** A $5,000 a month plan where the Maritime team sets up your apps, images and network: https://maritime.sh/dedicated ## Pricing Plans are Starter $20, Growth $100, Scale $500 and Dedicated $5,000 a month, plus larger contracts with invoicing by a call. The plan fee becomes the same amount of usage credit every month, and Growth, Scale and Dedicated also take 10%, 20% and 30% off every rate; on Dedicated the Maritime team also sets up your apps, images and network with you. Machines are billed per second at hourly rates while awake: a persistent sandbox is $0.03 per vCPU-hour plus $0.01 per GB-hour (1 vCPU and 2 GB is $0.05 an hour), an ephemeral sandbox or one sandbox of a swarm is $0.0045 per vCPU-hour plus $0.00225 per GB-hour (the default small size, 2 vCPU and 4 GB, is $0.018 an hour), a Linux desktop $0.12 an hour, a Windows desktop $0.18 and an Android phone $0.15. A sleeping machine pays only for its disk, $0.08 per GB-month. Usage past the credit is billed at the same rates on the same invoice. New accounts start with a 7-day free trial: a card is needed to start the first machine and is not charged then, and usage stops at $20. Cancel within the trial and nothing is charged; otherwise $20 is charged on day 7 and becomes that month's credit. Plans include no AI credits. Details: https://maritime.sh/pricing ## The container contract, in four lines 1. Listen on 0.0.0.0:$PORT (injected; never hardcode 8080). 2. Answer GET /health with any 2xx. 3. Answer POST /chat {"message": "..."} within 30 s with text or JSON containing one of response, reply, message, text, output. 4. Persist under /data only; the rest of the filesystem is disposable. ## Links - Quickstart: https://maritime.sh/docs/quickstart.md - CLI reference: https://maritime.sh/docs/cli.md - REST API: https://api.maritime.sh/openapi.json (bearer mk_ key), guide https://maritime.sh/docs/api.md - Migrate a bot, worker, or cron job from AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, Vercel, Heroku, Fly, Render, DigitalOcean, or a VPS: https://maritime.sh/docs/migrations.md - Humans: sign up at https://maritime.sh/signup, book a demo at https://cal.com/maritimesh/maritime-demo-call - Every docs page is also markdown: append .md to its URL.