# DeltaBox Lite vs Maritime

> Maritime scores 66.5 (B) to DeltaBox Lite's 52.3 (D) for sandbox fs. 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 DeltaBox Lite's 52.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. DeltaBox Lite leads on payments & pricing. Both do sandbox fs.

- DeltaBox Lite: grade D, 52.3/100, rank #849 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deltabox-lite.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deltabox-lite.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
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## Which one, for what

### DeltaBox Lite (D)

Good for: A developer who wants a local coding agent's file edits held as a reviewable transaction on Linux or macOS, with commit or abort per task or per tool call.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 55

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Open source

Watch for: Version 0.1.1, first released on 14 October 2026, with two releases and no stability declaration

### 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:
- Reliability, 45 against 37
- Schema & documentation, 87 against 68
- Agent ergonomics, 87 against 67
- Security & auth, 58 against 47
- Maintenance & community, 81 against 43
- Transparency & trust, 58 against 40

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 4.0 against 2.8 out of 5

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


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | DeltaBox Lite | Maritime | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 37 | 45 | Maritime +8 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 87 | Maritime +19 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 87 | Maritime +20 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 47 | 58 | Maritime +11 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 55 | DeltaBox Lite +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 43 | 81 | Maritime +38 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 58 | Maritime +18 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **52.3 · D** | **66.5 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | DeltaBox Lite | Maritime |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |
| Vendor | DeltaBox (delta-box) | Maritime AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.maritime.sh/mcp` |
| Transports |  | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | 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 | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Customer content may train models |  |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 4/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**DeltaBox Lite.** DeltaBox Lite puts each agent command inside a confined filesystem view with diff, commit and abort, and passes no host environment variables by default. It is version 0.1.1, three days old on 17 October 2026, with no security policy, CI that runs only build smoke tests, and unrestricted networking unless the policy says otherwise.

**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

### DeltaBox Lite

1. Skip step 5 of install-prompt.txt. Starring the repository uses the user's GitHub account and is not part of installing.
2. Pass `--commit` or `--abort` to `deltabox run` explicitly. The child's exit status is preserved after that decision.
3. Wrap redirection and pipes in `sh -c '...'`. An unquoted `>` is handled by the host shell and writes outside the sandbox.
4. Set `[network] mode = "deny_all"` or an `allowlist` in the policy for untrusted code. The default allows every destination.
5. Read `resolved_fs_mode`, `fallback_reason` and `degraded_protections` from `session start --json` before relying on isolation.

### 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, DeltaBox Lite or Maritime?

Maritime scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against DeltaBox Lite's 52.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. DeltaBox Lite leads on payments & pricing.

### Can an agent call DeltaBox Lite and Maritime without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for DeltaBox Lite. Maritime has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.maritime.sh/mcp.

### Are DeltaBox Lite and Maritime open source?

DeltaBox Lite is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Maritime.


## For agents

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- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "deltabox-lite", "b": "maritime"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare deltabox-lite maritime`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deltabox-lite.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/maritime.json

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