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

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