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

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