Maritime vs Watasu

Maritime runs Firecracker microVMs. Watasu limits a session to 24 hours.

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Maritime

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

Watasu

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Maritime
Watasu
Storage
Maritime: $2 per extra 5 GB per machine per month on Starter, $0.75 on Dedicated
Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
Free tier
Maritime: 3 agents, forever
Watasu: Free Basic plan
Concurrent sandboxes
Maritime: Up to 500
Watasu: Up to 100

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Maritime: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Maritime: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed
Storage
Maritime: $2 per extra 5 GB per machine per month on Starter, $0.75 on Dedicated
Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
Free tier
Maritime: 3 agents, forever
Watasu: Free Basic plan
Paid plan from
Maritime: $20 / month
Watasu: Not listed
Billing
Maritime: Not listed
Watasu: Per second

Limits

Max session
Maritime: Not listed
Watasu: 24 hours
Idle stop
Maritime: After 5 minutes
Watasu: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Maritime: Not listed
Watasu: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Maritime: Up to 500
Watasu: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
Maritime: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed
BYOC
Maritime: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Maritime
Watasu
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Maritime: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Maritime: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Maritime: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed

Compute only, at list rates.

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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.

Watasu fits when

  • You need snapshots.

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