RenkuLab
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Plans and prices
From RenkuLab's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Public resource pool | Free | Free resource tier; public pool sessions pause after 2 hours idle and shut down after 2 weeks |
The facts
Each one read from RenkuLab's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- Browser sessions
- Containerized browser based sessions support environments such as VSCode, Jupyter, and RStudio, and can display Streamlit or Shiny dashboards.checked 11 Oct 2026
What it does
- Code integrations
- Renku projects can connect to GitHub.com, GitLab.com, or similar Git repositories; private repositories require connecting the corresponding account.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Projects support members and groups, and public session launch links can be used to share interactive demos and apps.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom compute
- Users who need more compute than the public resource classes provide can request a custom resource pool under a contract.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Data connectors
- RenkuLab supports cloud storage connections including S3, Azure Blob, sftp, and WebDAV, with data mounted in sessions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Data handling
- Data is mounted into a session rather than copied, and no data is transferred until it is accessed in that session.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- full_stackchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Full-stack runtime
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- Renku is described as a platform for collaborative data science developed at the Swiss Data Science Center for researchers building projects from data, code, and compute resources.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Open source and deployment
- Renku is developed under the Apache 2.0 license and can be deployed on cloud infrastructure offering Kubernetes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Private projects
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Renku is a collaborative data science platform that brings together data, code, and compute resources from different sources.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Reproducible environments
- Renku can build Docker images from users’ software requirements so collaborators use the same software stack.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Session limits
- Public resource pool sessions pause after two hours without CPU use and are automatically shut down if not resumed within 14 days.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Sharing controls
- access_controlchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Support
- The Renku documentation links users to a community forum and lists [email protected] as an email contact.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free access
- The flagship RenkuLab instance is open to everyone with a publicly accessible free resource tier.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Lausanne and Zurich, Switzerlandchecked 19 Oct 2026
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