Coder vs.
Microsoft Dev Box
Dev Box’s SaaS delivery model offers quick setup for Windows users but is highly focused on Azure features and only offers VDI access. 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
Microsoft Dev Box
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
Pay as you go
Per user, per year
Multi-cloud Capable
No
Yes
Workspace Platform
VMs with VDI
Kubernetes, Docker, VMs, amd64, arm64, fractional CPU/RAM, GPUs
Workspace Extensibility
Azure Web UI
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
Windows
Linux, Windows, macOS
Workspace Tooling
Any tool that Windows supports
Any tool that the workspace OS supports