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Guardian vs Shark Magic

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Guardian compared with Shark Magic
DetailGuardian logo Guardian Shark Magic
What it doesHuman authority infrastructure for autonomous AI Serverless sandboxes that bill only for the seconds your agent's code runs
StageNot given MVP
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inNot given MX
Pricing modelFreemium Freemium
PricingFree: $0 per month with 2 connections, 1 agent, 500 protected actions per month. Developer: $99/month with 25,000 billable executions included, then $0.001 per billable execution with $500 default overage cap. Business: Contact Sales for paid pilots and enterprise contracts. Shark Pro $5/month includes $5 of usage; Shark Studio $25/month includes $25; Shark Scale $100/month includes $100. Commands run at $0.12 per compute-hour, billed per second only while running. Services: 2 vCPU / 2 GiB at $0.03/h; 4 vCPU / 4 GiB at $0.06/h. Storage $0.08/GiB-month with first 5 GiB f
Key features
  • Cryptographically signed receipts and verifiable evidence
  • Multi-party approval for organizational authority
  • Open-source SDK, MCP server, and framework adapters
  • Authority lifecycle management from grant to revocation
  • Supported integrations with payments and cloud accounts
  • Individual, family, business, and enterprise deployment options
  • Enforcement at tool execution boundaries
  • Persistent Space for agent files and databases
  • Pay only for compute time while command runs, not idle or thinking time
  • HTTP API with Python and TypeScript SDKs
  • CLI for devbox with Claude Code and Codex support
  • Sleeping services that wake in milliseconds
  • Fork Spaces fast without booting VM
  • API key isolation outside VM with egress proxy
  • Fast file search with sharkfn 300–600× faster than ripgrep
  • Integration with LangChain, LangGraph, smolagents, and Prefect
What makes it different
  • Write-once signed decisions verifiable by auditors without trusting the vendor
  • Controls sit at the point where AI systems take consequential actions
  • One company integrating security and compliance disciplines
  • Open-source cores and published research allow vendor review
  • Human authority never transferred to the agent
  • Billing only for seconds code actually runs, not idle or thinking time
  • Lowest cost compared to alternatives for agent infrastructure
  • Persistent Storage with fast Space fork and file access without VM boot
  • No GPU required, works with unmodified existing agent harnesses
  • Sleeping services wake in milliseconds with zero idle billing
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)3 no change since last checkNot checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)00
Citation Flow (Majestic)260
Referring domains (Majestic)180

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