Blaxel alternative
Maritime is cheaper ($0.022 against $0.1656 an hour for a 4 GB sandbox, and $1 a month against $0.0828 an hour for a 2 GB agent box) and adds desktops, Windows and Android. Blaxel resumes in about 25 ms.
Maritime gives every AI agent its own computer: agent boxes that stay online, sandboxes for code, Linux and Windows desktops it clicks, and Android phones.
Blaxel pricing vs Maritime, same sizes.
List prices for one machine awake for one full hour. Disk and egress are left out.
| Provider | 1 vCPU, 2 GB per hour | 2 vCPU, 4 GB per hour | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maritime sandbox | $0.011 | $0.022 | Any size up to 16 vCPU and 64 GB, priced per vCPU and GB. Ends with its disk when idle, or pause it and pay $0.08 per GB-month of disk. |
| Maritime agent box | $0.00137 | $0.00274 | $1 a month per 2 GB of memory, 1 vCPU, awake or asleep, with unlimited awake hours and 5 GB of disk. The 4 GB box ($2 a month) is shown in the 2 vCPU, 4 GB column by memory. |
| Blaxel | $0.0828 | $0.1656 | Billed on memory only, $0.0414 per GB-hour; CPU scales with memory. Snapshots $0.20 per GB-month. |
Blaxel prices from blaxel.ai/pricing, checked October 26, 2026. Maritime prices from the pricing page.
Blaxel plans: Pay as you go, with up to $200 of free credit. HIPAA add-on $250 a month. Support plans from $800 a month plus 3% of usage.
What Maritime has that Blaxel does not.
Blaxel sells fast-resuming micro-VM sandboxes, batch jobs, MCP server hosting and volumes, on Linux. Maritime gives every agent its own computer: sandboxes, persistent agent boxes, Linux and Windows desktops, and Android phones, on one API.
Windows desktops
Maritime: $0.18 an hour while awake, licence included, with screenshot, click, type, files and human takeover. Requires Growth, Scale or Dedicated once the plan has been paid; not Starter or the free trial.
Blaxel: Linux. Windows is not stated as a sandbox system, and no desktop was found.
Android phones
Maritime: $0.15 an hour while awake. AOSP Android 15 with tap, swipe, ui_tree, install_app and an adb tunnel.
Blaxel: No Android machine.
Persistent agent boxes
Maritime: $1 a month per 2 GB, awake or asleep, with unlimited awake hours and 5 GB of disk. Keeps /data until you delete it.
Blaxel: Standby keeps memory and processes and resumes in under 25 ms. A running 2 GB sandbox is $0.0828 an hour.
Per-end-user spend caps
Maritime: End users are records keyed by your own id, with one agent each, per-user spend caps, short-lived eu_ tokens for their browser, and a usage report for rebilling.
Blaxel: Not stated.
Private network
Maritime: Reach a system inside a customer's office through a small connector on their side, no VPN, on every plan including the free trial.
Blaxel: Egress allow and deny lists. Static egress IPs in private preview; private networking on the Custom plan.
HIPAA without an add-on
Maritime: HIPAA attestation, and a BAA on request, with hosting in the United States or Germany.
Blaxel: HIPAA add-on $250 a month.
Where Blaxel is better.
Pick Blaxel if one of these matters more to you than the list above.
- Resume speed: under 25 ms from standby, with memory and processes kept. A Maritime agent box wakes in about a second.
- A larger free credit: up to $200. Maritime's trial needs a card and caps usage at $20 for 7 days.
- More concurrency for free: 10 sandboxes at once. Maritime Starter allows 5 machines awake at once (Growth 25, Scale 60).
- Four regions: Oregon, North Virginia, London and Frankfurt. Maritime runs in the United States and Germany.
What a month costs.
Arithmetic from the rates above. A month is 730 hours. Maritime numbers include the $20 Starter plan, whose fee comes back as usage credit; Starter allows 5 machines awake at once.
Short-lived code execution: 1,000 sandbox-hours a month at 2 vCPU and 4 GB, no more than 5 at once
- Maritime sandboxes1,000 h x $0.022, $2 past the $20 Starter credit$22
- Blaxel1,000 h x $0.1656$165.60
Maritime and Blaxel, briefly.
- How much does Blaxel cost?
- Blaxel sandboxes bill $0.0414 per GB of memory per hour, with CPU scaling with memory: $0.0828 an hour at 2 GB and $0.1656 at 4 GB (blaxel.ai/pricing, checked 2026-10-26). It is pay as you go, with up to $200 of free credit. Snapshots are $0.20 per GB-month and volumes $0.12.
- Blaxel vs Maritime: which is cheaper?
- At list prices, yes. A Maritime sandbox with 2 vCPU and 4 GB is $0.022 an hour; Blaxel is $0.1656 an hour for 4 GB (blaxel.ai/pricing, checked 2026-10-26). A 1 vCPU, 2 GB Maritime agent box is $1 a month, awake or asleep, against Blaxel's $0.0828 an hour for 2 GB.
- Does Maritime include HIPAA like Blaxel?
- Yes, with no add-on: HIPAA attestation, and a BAA on request. Blaxel offers HIPAA as a $250 a month add-on.
- Where is Blaxel the better choice?
- Blaxel resumes from standby in under 25 ms with memory kept, gives up to $200 of free credit, allows 10 sandboxes at once for free, and runs in four regions.
These sources were read on October 26, 2026. Later price checks are dated where stated. Prices change; check the source before you decide. The full comparison of 25 providers, with every source, is at maritime.sh/compare.md.
Start with a free trial.One API key, one bill.
7 days, a card is required, usage capped at $20. Cancel within the trial and nothing is charged. Starter $20, Growth $100, Scale $500 and Dedicated $5,000 a month. Each fee comes back as the same amount of usage credit. Every plan pays the same rates.
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