Maritime

Overview

Maritime is an infrastructure platform that provides dedicated cloud virtual machines and operating systems designed specifically for autonomous AI agents. Backed by Y Combinator, the service allows developers to provision persistent agent workspaces, ephemeral code execution environments, and GUI-based desktops or mobile devices on demand. All machine types are accessible under a single account and unified API key, with management supported via a web dashboard, CLI, API, SDK, and Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Key Features

• Agent Boxes — Persistent micro-VM workspaces that preserve files and state, automatically suspend when idle, and resume execution in approximately one second.
• Ephemeral Sandboxes — Disposable execution instances supporting up to 16 vCPUs and 64 GB RAM that terminate and delete local disks upon task completion.
• Swarms — Coordinated compute clusters that distribute single commands across hundreds to thousands of sandboxes simultaneously for evaluations, reinforcement learning rollouts, and batch tasks.
• Cloud Desktops — Virtual Linux and Windows Server 2022 desktop environments with interactive graphical displays, programmatic keyboard and mouse inputs, and human-in-the-loop takeover capabilities.
• Virtual Android Phones — Cloud-hosted Android mobile instances that support direct APK installations for mobile-specific agent automation.
• Native Integration Interfaces — Management tooling that supports developer workflows through REST APIs, software development kits, command-line interfaces, and MCP servers.

Who It's For

Maritime is designed for AI engineers, researchers, and software teams developing autonomous coding, evaluation, workflow automation, and computer-use agents. It supports engineering organizations that require secure execution environments for untrusted code, as well as teams automating legacy desktop software, web applications behind logins, or mobile-exclusive interfaces. The platform serves startups through enterprise companies scaling multi-agent production workloads.

Notable Strengths

Maritime distinguishes itself by unifying heterogeneous execution environments—persistent workspaces, disposable sandboxes, Windows/Linux desktops, and Android devices—into a single API and billing framework. Its pricing structure is highly usage-aligned, billing machines per second while converting monthly tier fees directly into equivalent platform usage credits. Additionally, features such as human-takeover links and high-concurrency swarm execution specifically accommodate common operational bottlenecks in reinforcement learning and computer-use agent deployment.