Maritime: Cloud computers for any AI agent, customized your way
A San Francisco startup from Y Combinator's F26 batch launched on Product Hunt on November 5, 2026, according to the Product Hunt daily leaderboard. Its service gives AI agents their own cloud machines in three groups. Agent boxes keep an agent's files, sleep when idle and wake in about a second. Sandboxes handle one-off code runs and are deleted with their disk when a task ends. Computers on demand cover Linux and Windows desktops and Android phones, which agents can operate on screen while a human takes over through a link.
Pricing is metered and published in Maritime's own posts on X. Agent boxes cost $1 per month per 2 GB, sandboxes start at $0.011 per hour while awake, and Linux desktops, Android phones and Windows desktops bill at $0.12, $0.15 and $0.18 per hour, with per-second billing. The Windows option includes a Windows Server 2022 license and is limited to the Growth plan and above, according to the feature list on Maritime's site. Agents reach these machines through MCP or REST calls, and the Android machines run AOSP Android 15 with taps, swipes and APK installs.
Swarms run thousands of sandboxes from one command for evaluations, reinforcement learning rollouts and batch jobs. They start at $0.022 per hour per sandbox and remain invite-only for now. Maritime's Product Hunt page also says the company is onboarding its first beta users and invites early users to share what they are building.
Why it matters
For teams selling AI products in which each customer gets an agent, the appeal is isolation without building their own machine fleet. Maritime's Y Combinator listing names teams building AI employees and personal assistants as its target buyers. Pricing that tracks awake time rather than constant uptime could matter for fleets of mostly idle agents, since sandboxes and desktops bill only while running. Builders also gain a way to give an agent Windows or Android software without managing those environments themselves.
For investors, the category is getting crowded and price is becoming a lever. E2B, Daytona, Modal and Fly.io Sprites all sell agent runtimes, and a rival called box claims $0.036 per hour, which it says is about ten times cheaper than E2B, Daytona and Modal. Buyers will probably test wake latency, data durability and reliability before committing, so runtime cost and operational proof will weigh heavily in diligence. Founders pricing agent products should model the runtime cost per customer now, before rivals reset expectations.
Key points
- 1Maritime launched on Product Hunt on November 5, 2026, ranking fifth on the platform's daily list that day.
- 2Agent boxes keep files, sleep when idle, wake in about a second and cost $1 per month per 2 GB.
- 3Sandboxes start at $0.011 per hour while awake and are deleted with their disk when a task ends.
- 4Linux desktops cost $0.12 an hour, Android phones $0.15 and Windows desktops $0.18, billed per second.
