Maritime's logo artwork, from the company's website. Image: Maritime
In brief
Maritime, a Y Combinator Fall 2026 company, gives each AI agent its own isolated, persistent virtual machine, with an agent box priced at $1 a month per 2 GB of memory, according to its website.
Maritime sells a managed cloud for startups that build AI agents and want to give every customer one of their own. The San Francisco company has a team of three, according to YC Watcher. It is run by co-founders Maria Gorskikh and Aryaman Shrivastava. It announced the product on Y Combinator’s launch page on Oct. 9, describing a platform for running millions of agents, each on its own isolated, persistent virtual machine.
Maritime has not disclosed any funding in the coverage reviewed by AgenticFeed.
Running many agents means a lot of upkeep, founders say
The founders said they started Maritime after hosting hundreds of agents during research at MIT. Even at that scale, they wrote, their time went into getting environments running, keeping them up and debugging individual agents. They said they began work when OpenClaw was released and expect “a world with billions of AI agents,” with startups selling an agent to each customer.
Each agent gets its own machine and keeps its state
Maritime gives each agent a virtual machine where it can run code, install software and use a browser. The agent keeps its files, memory, installed software and logins between tasks, so it can pick up where it left off. Customers can choose Linux computers, Windows desktops or virtual Android phones, depending on the apps an agent needs.
Developers can run their agent code inside a Maritime machine, or keep the agent on their own servers and use Model Context Protocol, a standard for connecting tools to AI agents, to let it control a Maritime computer. Maritime also offers tools to inspect, debug and fix a single customer’s agent.
Agent boxes sleep when idle and wake in about a second
Maritime’s website lists two products. An agent box is a workspace that keeps its files, sleeps when idle and wakes in about a second. It costs $1 a month per 2 GB of memory. Sandboxes run untrusted or generated code once and are deleted with their disk when the task ends. They start at $0.011 an hour while awake. A free tier hosts three agents.
The YC launch post described the price as starting at $1 per agent a month. Maritime’s website now quotes the price per 2 GB of memory.
The low price depends on agents sleeping
In a Hacker News thread, a commenter asked how Maritime avoids losing money on an agent running at full power around the clock. Gorskikh replied that free and standard agents sleep automatically when idle and have usage limits. So the $1 price assumes agents are idle much of the time.
Several other YC startups sell agent computers too
Maritime is not alone. YC’s directory lists other 2026 companies building computers for agents, including machine0, which sells cloud VMs for agents by the minute, and Ascii, which makes “box,” described as affordable full-VM sandboxes. Maritime has not published customer numbers or revenue.
Source: Y Combinator, “Maritime: Fully managed cloud for running AI agents at scale,”
Additional sources: Maritime, “Company website.”; Hacker News, “Show HN: Maritime, a platform for running AI agents for $1 a month.”; YC Watcher, “Maritime · YC F26.”; Y Combinator, “Cloud Computing Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026.”
