# Maritime vs Morph Cloud

> Maritime scores 66.5 (B) to Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D) 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 Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Morph Cloud leads on reliability. Both do code sandboxes.

- 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
- Morph Cloud: grade D, 50.8/100, rank #892 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/morph-cloud.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/morph-cloud.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

### 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:
- Schema & documentation, 87 against 72
- Agent ergonomics, 87 against 61
- Security & auth, 58 against 39
- Payments & pricing, 55 against 20
- Maintenance & community, 81 against 58
- Transparency & trust, 58 against 25

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

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

### Morph Cloud (D)

Good for: Agents that need to checkpoint and fork a running machine with memory intact, for parallel attempts, evaluations or reinforcement learning rollouts.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 63 against 45

Watch for: No terms of service, privacy policy, DPA or subprocessor list found on morph.so or cloud.morph.so


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Maritime | Morph Cloud | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 63 | Morph Cloud +18 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 72 | Maritime +15 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 61 | Maritime +26 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 39 | Maritime +19 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 55 | 20 | Maritime +35 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 58 | Maritime +23 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 25 | Maritime +33 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **66.5 · B** | **50.8 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Maritime | Morph Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Maritime AI, Inc. | Morph Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.maritime.sh/mcp` | `https://cloud.morph.so/api` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | 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. | Proprietary hosted service with no published terms found. The Python and TypeScript SDKs are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 9 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-09-01 |
| 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 |  |  |
| Popularity | none | 3 stars, 339 npm/wk, 13k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (4) | none |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Morph Cloud.** Pause and snapshot keep memory and running processes, and one call branches an instance into several copies. A public OpenAPI file covers 69 operations. No terms of service, privacy policy or security page was found, the free plan includes no compute credit, and the changelog holds one entry from November 2024.

## Before you call either

### 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.

### Morph Cloud

1. Set `ttl_seconds` and `ttl_action` when starting an instance. Nothing in the docs stops an instance with no TTL from billing MCUs
2. Pass `auth_mode: api_key` when exposing an HTTP service. The default is `none`, which makes the URL public
3. Enable `wake_on_ssh` before calling exec on an instance that may be paused. There is no separate exec wake setting
4. Use `/api/instance/list` and `/api/snapshot/list` with `page` and `limit` (default 50, maximum 1,000). The plain list routes return everything
5. On a 503 from snapshot, branch, pause or reboot, wait for the `Retry-After` value before repeating the call

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Maritime or Morph Cloud?

Maritime scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Morph Cloud leads on reliability.

### Do Maritime and Morph Cloud need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call Maritime and Morph Cloud without installing anything?

Yes. Maritime has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.maritime.sh/mcp and Morph Cloud at https://cloud.morph.so/api.


## For agents

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

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