# Maritime vs Sprites (slim)

> Maritime scores 66.5 (B) to Sprites's 58.3 (C) for code sandboxes. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Maritime scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Sprites's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Sprites leads on reliability. Both do code sandboxes.

- Maritime: B 66.5, rank #318 of 1197 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/maritime.min.md
- Sprites: C 58.3, rank #663 of 1197 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprites.min.md
- Maritime, 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 74; Agent ergonomics, 87 against 68; Payments & pricing, 55 against 30. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.
- Sprites, good for Agents that need a long-lived machine with installed tools and files kept between sessions, and rollback by checkpoint. Ahead on Reliability, 55 against 45.

| Category | Maritime | Sprites |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 45 | 55 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 74 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 87 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Maritime | Sprites |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Maritime AI, Inc. | Fly.io |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.maritime.sh/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |
| 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 service under the Fly.io Terms of Service. The JavaScript, Go, Python and Elixir SDKs are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 9 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-04-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-09-24 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 158k npm/wk, 59k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (4) | none |