Coder vs.
GitHub Codespaces
Codespaces’ SaaS delivery model offers quick setup for projects hosted on GitHub but is tightly coupled to GitHub’s tooling and choice of cloud provider. Coder’s self-hosted, infrastructure agnostic model affords regulated and security-minded organizations to run fully isolated and fully data sovereign CDEs. This flexibility also affords organizations to balance their usage across multiple clouds, finely tune resource allotment and use their preferred tooling and providers. Coder’s 100% open source releases allow for top-to-bottom code review for the entire platform.
Features
GitHub Codespaces
Coder
Open Source
No
Yes, even premium features
Delivery Model
SaaS
Self-hosted, any cloud, any platform
Self-maintained
No
Yes
Data Sovereignty
No
Yes
Full Isolation
No
Yes
Cost Model
On-demand, per hour
Per user, per year
Multi-cloud Capable
No
Yes
Workspace Platform
Docker
Kubernetes, Docker, VMs, amd64, arm64, fractional CPU/RAM, GPUs
Workspace Extensibility
Devcontainers
Terraform templates,full support for Terraform providers, if there is a provider for your use case, you can incorporate it into your workspace
Workspace OS
Linux
Linux, Windows, macOS
Workspace Tooling
Linux tools
Any tool that the workspace OS supports