Maritime vs Smol Machines
Smol Machines costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Maritime runs Firecracker microVMs. Smol Machines runs microVMs.
Updated
Maritime
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 3 agents, forever
- Max session
- Not listed
Smol Machines
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Maritime
Smol Machines
- Storage
- Maritime: $2 per extra 5 GB per machine per month on Starter, $0.75 on Dedicated
- Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Maritime: 3 agents, forever
- Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Maritime: $20 / month
- Smol Machines: Pay as you go
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Maritime: Up to 500
- Smol Machines: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- Maritime: Firecracker microVM
- Smol Machines: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Maritime: TypeScript, Python
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Smol Machinessmolmachines
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Maritime: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Maritime: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.0162
- Storage
- Maritime: $2 per extra 5 GB per machine per month on Starter, $0.75 on Dedicated
- Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Maritime: 3 agents, forever
- Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Maritime: $20 / month
- Smol Machines: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Maritime: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Maritime: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Maritime: After 5 minutes
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Maritime: Not listed
- Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Maritime: Up to 500
- Smol Machines: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Maritime: Firecracker microVM
- Smol Machines: MicroVM
- GPU
- Maritime: Not listed
- Smol Machines: No
- Snapshots
- Maritime: Not listed
- Smol Machines: No
- Pause and resume
- Maritime:
- Smol Machines:
Developer
- SDKs
- Maritime: TypeScript, Python
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
- Integrations
- Maritime: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK
- Smol Machines: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Maritime: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Maritime: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Maritime
Smol Machines
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Maritime: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.082
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Maritime: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.165
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Maritime: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $0.330
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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.
Smol Machines fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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