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Maritime

The cloud built for AI agents. Every agent gets its own persistent micro-VM: a real Firecr

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Maritime is a managed cloud for hosting persistent AI agents, each running in its own Firecracker micro-VM with a disk that survives sleep, restart, and redeploy. Machines sleep when idle and wake in about a second, so agents keep files, memory, logins, and packages between sessions without staying resident.

Agents can install libraries, run headful Chrome, clone repos, execute generated code, and serve apps or APIs. Each machine includes a vCPU, 2 GB RAM, and 5 GB SSD. Deployment works through a dashboard, CLI, and TypeScript and Python SDKs, with an API for creating agents programmatically. A Computers module provides a persistent Linux desktop driven over MCP, with live viewing and takeover. A marketplace offers integrations for messaging channels (iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord), persistent user memory, and agent identity.

Maritime is aimed at developers and startups building agents, including one-per-customer setups. A free plan covers 3 agents without a card; paid plans (Starter, Growth, Scale, Dedicated, Enterprise) add machine slots, concurrent-awake limits, and add-ons for extra RAM, SSD, and always-on machines. Billing is flat per machine with no metering of messages, tokens, sessions, or compute time.

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