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Compare Coder to Ona

The self-hosted Ona alternative

Ona (formerly Gitpod) is now part of OpenAI, and Ona Cloud shut down in October 2026. Nothing migrated automatically. If you’re on Enterprise, the changes since the acquisition are a good reason to ask who controls your platform and what happens if their priorities change.

Coder gives your team a development platform you fully control. The control plane, workspaces, and agents all run on your infrastructure, in any cloud, on-premises, or air-gapped. Bring your Dev Containers, keep Codex, and add any agent or model you want.

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Why look for an Ona alternative?

  • Ona Cloud is gone.Ona Cloud shut down in October 2026, and nothing migrated automatically. Your environments need a new home.
  • Own the whole platform, control plane included.Ona Enterprise keeps sign-in, settings, and guardrails in Ona’s hosted management plane. Coder runs every piece on your infrastructure.
  • Use any agent and any model.Ona recommends Codex Agent, which needs OpenAI model access on your runners. Coder runs Codex, Claude Code, and other agents with any model provider.
  • Run anywhere, including air-gapped.Ona Enterprise runs only on AWS or GCP. Coder runs on any cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, or air-gapped.

Platform Governance & Scale

Build your AI Operating Layer

Replacing Ona is a platform decision, not a tool swap. Choose secure infrastructure for AI-powered development that grows with you from developer environments to agents at scale.

One infrastructure bet

Coder isn’t tied to one cloud, model, or tool. Platform teams define environments as code, connected to private repositories and internal tools. New AI tools mean a template update.

Scale AI on one platform

Run Claude Code, Codex, Coder Agents, or your own agents in your developers’ workspaces under one set of AI Governance policies. Scale up without replatforming.

Governed and cost-controlled

AI Gateway logs every prompt and tool call by user, centralizes model credentials, and caps token spend with budgets. Autostop and quotas control compute costs.

Plan your move
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We have 7,000 engineers. Before Coder, less than 5% of their time was spent coding. With Coder, that’s now 20%. We’ve seen a 224% ROI on our investment in labor costs alone.
VP of Developer Experience

Switch to Coder in three steps

Your Dev Containers come with you, so you’re not rebuilding your environments from scratch.

  1. Install Coder on your infrastructure

    Deploy Coder in your own cloud or data center, then start from a Coder Registry template for Kubernetes, VMs, or Docker.

  2. Point workspaces at your Dev Containers

    Turn on the Dev Containers integration and workspaces build from the devcontainer.json files you already use with Ona.

  3. Invite your developers and agents

    Connect your Git provider and identity provider, invite your team, and add the agents and models you approve, including Codex and Claude Code.

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Architectural differences at a glance

DimensionCoderOna
Hosting model
Self-hosted, so it runs as long as you run it
Ona Cloud shut down in October 2026
Control plane, policy, and audit
Your infrastructure, alongside your workspaces and agents
Ona’s hosted management plane
Execution environment
Your infrastructure, wherever it runs
Your AWS or GCP account (Enterprise)
Supported infrastructure
AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises
AWS and GCP only
Air-gap capable
Yes
No documented option
Internet dependency
None required for fully self-contained deployments
Runners must connect to Ona’s management plane
Environment definition
Terraform templates, with Dev Container support
Dev Container configuration
Agents
Coder Agents, Codex, Claude Code, and others
Codex Agent recommended; Anthropic harness deprecated
Model choice
Any provider, including self-hosted models
OpenAI (or compatible) model access required on your runners; Vertex AI integrations deprecated

What you get with Coder

A development platform for your developers and their AI agents that runs entirely on infrastructure you control.

Fully self-hosted

The control plane, workspaces, and agent loop all run on your infrastructure, so your environments never depend on someone else’s hosted service staying up.

Any cloud, on-premises, or air-gapped

Run Coder on AWS, Azure, or GCP, in your own data center, or fully disconnected from the internet. You pick the infrastructure that fits your security model.

Any agent, any model

Keep Codex if your team likes it. Run Claude Code and other agents side by side in governed workspaces, or use Coder Agents with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Azure, AWS Bedrock, or self-hosted models.

Bring your Dev Containers

Your existing devcontainer.json files work in Coder’s Linux workspaces, so you’re not starting from zero.

One platform for developers and agents

Developers and agents share the same Terraform-defined workspaces, access controls, and audit logs. Your platform team runs one system, not separate stacks.

Start open source, scale with Premium

Coder Community is free and open source (AGPL v3), with unlimited workspaces. Premium adds AI Governance, high availability, multi-org RBAC, audit logging, and SLA-backed support.

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FAQs

Is Coder a hosted service like Ona Cloud?
No. Coder is self-hosted, so you run the control plane and workspaces in your own cloud, on-premises, or air-gapped. Your platform team operates it, and in return your environments, source code, and agents stay under your control instead of depending on a vendor’s hosted service.
I’m on Ona Enterprise. Does the shutdown affect me?
Isn’t Ona Enterprise already in our VPC?
Do my Dev Container configurations carry over?
Can I keep using Codex?
Can we use Claude with Coder?
Why not move to Codex Cloud?
How does cost compare with Ona Enterprise?
How do we get started?