Coder vs.
Gitpod
While both solutions offer a wide array of capabilities and both offer a self-hosted option, the Coder ethos of self-maintaining Cloud Development Environments is the main differentiator. This allows regulated and security-minded organizations to run fully isolated and fully data sovereign CDEs. For a full breakdown of the importance of self-maintained CDEs check our recent post on the subject.
Features
Gitpod
Coder
Open Source
Yes
Yes, even premium features
Delivery Model
SaaS or Self-hosted in AWS VPC
Self-hosted, any cloud, any platform
Self-maintained
No
Yes
Data Sovereignty
No
Yes
Full Isolation
No
Yes
Cost Model
Pay as you go for SaaS, Fixed cost + usage for Self-hosted
Per user, per year
Multi-cloud Capable
No
Yes
Workspace Platform
Kubernetes
Kubernetes, Docker, VMs, amd64, arm64, fractional CPU/RAM, GPUs
Workspace Extensibility
YAML, similar to Docker Compose
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