# Daytona vs Maritime

> Maritime scores 66.5 (B) to Daytona's 64.3 (B) for code sandboxes. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-21

Maritime scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Daytona's 64.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Daytona leads on reliability and security & auth. Both do code sandboxes.

- Daytona: grade B, 64.3/100, rank #403 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/daytona.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/daytona.json
- Maritime: grade B, 66.5/100, rank #318 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/maritime.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/maritime.json
- Best code execution sandboxes for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/code-sandboxes/index.md
- All 171 sandboxes comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/code-sandboxes/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Daytona (B)

Good for: Agents that need a choice of machine, including Windows desktops and GPUs, and operators who want least-privilege keys.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 60 against 45
- Security & auth, 63 against 58

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: The container class shares the host kernel. Only the VM classes get their own

### Maritime (B)

Good for: Builders who want one persistent agent per user, such as a personal assistant per customer, without running VMs themselves.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 87 against 55
- Payments & pricing, 55 against 50

Also in its favour:
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 4.0 against 3.0 out of 5

Watch for: No status page, SLA or security.txt.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Daytona | Maritime | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 45 | Daytona +15 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 87 | even |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 87 | Maritime +32 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 58 | Daytona +5 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 55 | Maritime +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 81 | Maritime +1 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 58 | Maritime +2 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **64.3 · B** | **66.5 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Daytona | Maritime |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Daytona | Maritime AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.daytona.io/api` | `https://mcp.maritime.sh/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs and API clients), AGPL-3.0 (CLI) | Closed hosted service under Maritime's Terms of Service (Maritime AI, Inc.), last updated 17 May 2026. The TypeScript and Python SDKs are MIT-licensed. |
| Tools exposed | none | 9 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-08-22 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-22 |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 6 stars, 706k npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 4/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Daytona.** API keys with per-action scopes, so an agent can create sandboxes without being able to delete them. The container class shares the host kernel. Only the VM classes get their own.

**Maritime.** Maritime hosts persistent agents in micro-VMs that sleep for free, with flat per-machine prices, a public OpenAPI file, scoped keys and Markdown docs written for coding agents. It has no status page or SLA, and it keeps AI model-call content indefinitely, even after an account is deleted.

## Before you call either

### Daytona

1. Pick a Linux VM class for untrusted code or when memory must survive a pause. Container sandboxes stop and archive instead
2. Set autoStopInterval yourself. The 15-minute idle default can stop a sandbox while the agent is still thinking
3. Give the agent a key without `delete:sandboxes` if it shouldn't destroy work
4. Read `Retry-After-{throttler}` on a 429 before retrying sandbox creation
5. Check the organisation's tier before relying on outbound calls from inside the sandbox

### Maritime

1. Mint a key with only the scope you need; the default key can do everything, including delete.
2. Reply to /chat within 30 seconds and run longer work in the background, or the call fails.
3. Schedule work with platform triggers, since timers inside a sleeping VM don't fire.
4. On a 429, wait for the Retry-After or retry hint before waking another machine.
5. Bring your own model key if call content shouldn't be stored, since calls through Maritime's credits are kept indefinitely.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Daytona or Maritime?

Maritime scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Daytona's 64.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Daytona leads on reliability and security & auth.

### Do Daytona and Maritime need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call Daytona and Maritime without installing anything?

Yes. Daytona has a hosted endpoint at https://app.daytona.io/api and Maritime at https://mcp.maritime.sh/mcp.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-maritime.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-maritime.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "daytona", "b": "maritime"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare daytona maritime`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/daytona.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/maritime.json

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