Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs Maritime

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Maritime runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
8 hours

Maritime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
3 agents, forever
Max session
Not listed

What is different

7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Maritime
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
Maritime: $2 per extra 5 GB per machine per month on Starter, $0.75 on Dedicated
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
Maritime: $20 / month
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
Maritime: After 5 minutes
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
Maritime: Up to 500
Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
Maritime: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
Maritime: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Maritime: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
Maritime: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
Maritime: Not listed
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
Maritime: $2 per extra 5 GB per machine per month on Starter, $0.75 on Dedicated
Free tier
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Maritime: 3 agents, forever
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
Maritime: $20 / month
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
Maritime: Not listed

Limits

Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
Maritime: Not listed
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
Maritime: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Maritime: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
Maritime: Up to 500

Platform

Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
Maritime: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Maritime: Not listed
Snapshots
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Maritime: Not listed
Pause and resume
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:
Maritime:

Developer

SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
Maritime: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Maritime: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Maritime: Not listed
BYOC
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Maritime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Maritime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108
Maritime: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217
Maritime: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434
Maritime: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use LangChain.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001.

Maritime fits when

  • You use Claude Code or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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