Dock vs Morph Cloud
Morph Cloud and Dock both treat the agent machine as something you keep and branch. Morph leads on memory-state branching; Dock leads on the guardrails around the machine.
Side by side
Morph Cloud in its own words: “Cloud Computers for Every Agent.”
| Capability | Dock | Morph Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Isolation | Firecracker microVMs on KVM bare metal (Standard, Premium); gVisor containers for the Nano tier. | Virtual machines. |
| Persistence | Archive snapshots the filesystem; resume keeps the same dock identity. Stopped docks incur no compute charge. | Instances do not expire without a TTL; pause preserves memory state. |
| Snapshots and forks | Branch any snapshot into independent, writable docks with recorded lineage. | Infinibranch: near-instant copies of instance state. |
| Docker inside | Root, systemd, and Docker inside every dock. | Docker-in-Docker on devboxes. |
| SSH | Native SSH and SCP, plus REST, TypeScript and Python SDKs, and the dock CLI. | SSH, browser terminal, and editor integrations. |
| Desktop | Full desktop or browser-only sessions with control locking for human takeover. | Remote desktop guide and a separate browser product. |
| Network egress | Deny by default on every dock; allowed destinations set per Environment, enforced on the host. | Not stated. |
| Secrets | Vault Gateway: the agent uses an approved credential without the secret entering the guest. | Secrets manager on devboxes; brokering not stated. |
| Audit | Flight Recorder: runs, prompts, commands, file changes, network decisions, and cost in one timeline. | Not stated. |
Where Dock is different
- Documented guardrails
- Egress policy, credential brokering, and audit are part of the product, not left to the guest.
- Workspace controls
- Roles, budgets, and approvals for teams running many agent machines.
Where Morph Cloud is strong
- Memory-state branching
- Branching with full memory state is Morph's core primitive and is mature.
- Wake on access
- Machines can wake on SSH or HTTP, and there is a dedicated browser product.
Choose Dock if
you need network policy, credential brokering, and an audit trail around persistent agent machines.
Choose Morph Cloud if
branching live memory state is the center of your workload today.
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