Maritime vs OpenPond Sandboxes

OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Maritime runs Firecracker microVMs. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Maritime

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

OpenPond Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Maritime
OpenPond Sandboxes
Storage
Maritime: $2 per extra 5 GB per machine per month on Starter, $0.75 on Dedicated
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Maritime: 3 agents, forever
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Paid plan from
Maritime: $20 / month
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Idle stop
Maritime: After 5 minutes
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Concurrent sandboxes
Maritime: Up to 500
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
SDKs
Maritime: TypeScript, Python
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Maritime: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
Maritime: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Storage
Maritime: $2 per extra 5 GB per machine per month on Starter, $0.75 on Dedicated
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Maritime: 3 agents, forever
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Paid plan from
Maritime: $20 / month
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Billing
Maritime: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Maritime: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Maritime: After 5 minutes
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Maritime: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Maritime: Up to 500
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Maritime: Firecracker microVM
OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Maritime: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Maritime: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Maritime:
OpenPond Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Maritime: TypeScript, Python
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Maritime: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Maritime: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Maritime: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Maritime
OpenPond Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Maritime: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Maritime: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Maritime: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Maritime fits when

  • You use MCP, Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

OpenPond Sandboxes fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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