JetBrains Space Alternative
Coder is an open-source solution that takes a platform-agnostic approach to remote development architecture that enables software development on infrastructure designed by you which is always under your control. By leveraging Terraform, Coder lets developers run an IDE on any compute platform including on-prem, AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, Kubernetes, Docker, and more, with workspaces running on Linux, Windows, or Mac.
| Feature | JetBrains Space | Coder |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery Model | SaaS + On-Prem (Dev environments are not supported) | OSS + Self-Managed |
| Cost | Pay JetBrains | Pay your cloud |
| Internet Access Required | Yes | No |
| Latency and Data Sovereignty | EU Ireland region (eu-west-1) | Self-Hosted |
| Security isolation model | Linux Virtual Machines | Unopinionated, 100% configurable and depends upon how you design your solution |
| Environments | EC2 | All Terraform resources, all clouds, multi-architecture: Linux, Mac, Windows, containers, VMs, amd64, arm64 |
| IDE | JetBrains Suite | Anything (vim, emacs, theia, code-server, openvscode-server, entire jetbrains suite inc gateway remote development, visual studio code desktop, visual studio for mac, visual studio for windows) you choose to install and deploy |
| Last Updated | 14/12/2022 | Please file a GitHub issue if any information is out of date. |