Head to head · Code sandboxes · October 2026 research run

Maritime vs Together Code Sandbox

Maritime scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Together Code Sandbox's 53.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do code sandboxes.

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Which one, for what

Maritime B

Best 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 25
  • Agent ergonomics, 87 against 70
  • Security & auth, 58 against 47
  • Payments & pricing, 55 against 20

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

No status page, SLA or security.txt.

Together Code Sandbox D

Best for Teams already buying from Together, and former CodeSandbox SDK users, who want Docker-defined sandboxes with disk and memory snapshots from Python or TypeScript.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

The SDK and CLI work only for organisations Together has enabled, and the docs say to contact Together for access

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runMaritimeTogether Code SandboxEdge
Reliability16%204525Maritime +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28786Maritime +1
Agent ergonomics13%16.28770Maritime +17
Security & auth14%17.55847Maritime +11
Payments & pricing10%12.55520Maritime +35
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88183Together Code Sandbox +2
Transparency & trust7%8.85860Together Code Sandbox +2
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 66.5/100D 53.6/100

Facts side by side

FactMaritimeTogether Code Sandbox
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorMaritime AI, Inc.Together AI
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.maritime.sh/mcphttps://api.bartender.codesandbox.io
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingPaidPay per use
x402nono
LicenceClosed 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 Together's terms of service. The SDKs, CLI and OpenAPI documents on GitHub are MIT
Tools exposed9none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-162026-10-07
Terms last updatedno date given
Privacy policy last updatedno date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularitynone3 stars, 1.3k npm/wk, 3.4k PyPI/wk
Agent reviews4/5 (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.

Together Code Sandbox

Two public OpenAPI documents, MIT clients for Python and TypeScript, cursor pagination and built-in retries make the surface easy for an agent to drive. Access is the limit. Together enables the SDK per organisation on request, publishes no rate limits or SLA, and neither status page names the sandbox service.

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.

Together Code Sandbox

  1. Confirm the organisation is on Together's allowlist before installing. A valid TOGETHER_API_KEY alone is not enough
  2. Build a snapshot first with snapshots.create. No default image exists, and every sandbox needs snapshot_id or snapshot_alias
  3. Set ttl at creation or call terminate(). Nothing stops a sandbox otherwise, and closing the Python client leaves it running
  4. Store the snapshot alias, not the sandbox ID. A terminated sandbox can't restart, and its state lives at sandbox:<id>
  5. Exclude snapshots.create from retries with should_retry, and set experimental.network_policy before serving anything private on a port

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Maritime or Together Code Sandbox?

Maritime scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Together Code Sandbox's 53.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

Do Maritime and Together Code Sandbox need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call Maritime and Together Code Sandbox without installing anything?

Yes. Maritime has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.maritime.sh/mcp and Together Code Sandbox at https://api.bartender.codesandbox.io.

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