Maritime vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. Maritime runs Firecracker microVMs. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.

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Maritime

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

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Maritime
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Paid plan from
Maritime: $20 / month
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
Idle stop
Maritime: After 5 minutes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
Concurrent sandboxes
Maritime: Up to 500
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Isolation
Maritime: Firecracker microVM
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
SDKs
Maritime: TypeScript, Python
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Maritime: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Maritime: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
RAM, per GiB-hour
Maritime: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Storage
Maritime: $2 per extra 5 GB per machine per month on Starter, $0.75 on Dedicated
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Free tier
Maritime: 3 agents, forever
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Paid plan from
Maritime: $20 / month
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
Billing
Maritime: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second

Limits

Max session
Maritime: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Idle stop
Maritime: After 5 minutes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Maritime: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Maritime: Up to 500
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
Maritime: Firecracker microVM
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
GPU
Maritime: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Snapshots
Maritime: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Pause and resume
Maritime:
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:

Developer

SDKs
Maritime: TypeScript, Python
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Maritime: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Maritime: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
BYOC
Maritime: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Maritime
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Maritime: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Maritime: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Maritime: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Maritime fits when

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

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use LangChain.

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