# Morph Cloud vs Offscreen

> Offscreen scores 62.9 (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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Offscreen scores 62.9 (B) on agent readiness against Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Morph Cloud leads on reliability and schema & documentation. Both do code sandboxes.

- Morph Cloud: grade D, 50.8/100, rank #865 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/morph-cloud.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/morph-cloud.json
- Offscreen: grade B, 62.9/100, rank #456 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/offscreen.json
- Best code execution sandboxes for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/code-sandboxes/index.md
- All 153 sandboxes comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/code-sandboxes/index.md

## Which one, for what

### 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 55
- Schema & documentation, 72 against 67

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

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

### Offscreen (B)

Good for: A coding agent working on a macOS or iOS app on the developer's own Apple silicon Mac, which needs to run UI tests, the Simulator or the built app without taking the screen.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 74 against 61
- Security & auth, 62 against 39
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 20
- Maintenance & community, 66 against 58
- Transparency & trust, 56 against 25

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Free to start without a card
- Open source

Watch for: First commit 11 October 2026, version 0.0.5 and labelled beta, with JSON field names that may change before 1.0


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Morph Cloud | Offscreen | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 63 | 55 | Morph Cloud +8 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 67 | Morph Cloud +5 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 74 | Offscreen +13 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 39 | 62 | Offscreen +23 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | Offscreen +40 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 66 | Offscreen +8 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 25 | 56 | Offscreen +31 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **50.8 · D** | **62.9 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Morph Cloud | Offscreen |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |
| Vendor | Morph Labs | Mark Phelps |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloud.morph.so/api` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service with no published terms found. The Python and TypeScript SDKs are Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-01 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 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 | 3 stars, 339 npm/wk, 13k PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Offscreen.** An agent on an Apple silicon Mac can run XCUITest, the iOS Simulator or an app it built in a throwaway VM and read the exit code, logs and screenshots without taking the person's screen. The project is six days old at v0.0.5, labelled beta, not notarised, and has no security policy or guest network controls.

## Before you call either

### 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

### Offscreen

1. Read `.offscreen.toml` before running anything and use its `project` key and task names. Don't guess them
2. Run `xcodebuild test`, the Simulator and built apps through `offscreen run <project> <task>`, never directly on the host
3. Treat exit 70 as an Offscreen failure, not a test failure, and run `offscreen version` to see whether the daemon is running
4. Ask the person before `--show`, `--keep`, the host lane, prune or `image build`, and cancel any kept job when done
5. Read screenshots and `.xcresult` bundles from the directory `offscreen artifacts <job>` prints

## Questions

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

Offscreen scores 62.9 (B) on agent readiness against Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Morph Cloud leads on reliability and schema & documentation.

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

Morph Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://cloud.morph.so/api. No hosted endpoint is listed for Offscreen.

### Are Morph Cloud and Offscreen open source?

No open-source release is listed for Morph Cloud. Offscreen is open source (MIT).


## For agents

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

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