Replit is a software creation platform where users can build applications with natural-language prompts and an AI agent.
Best Cloud Development Environments in 2026
Cloud development environments provide hosted workspaces for software development. Compared on workspace configuration, persistent storage, and prebuilds, these options also vary across JetBrains support, GPU workspaces, VCS hosts, and self-hosted availability. Replit, GitHub Codespaces, and PaizaCloud Cloud IDE are among the names to explore. Think about how you want development workspaces provisioned, what project…
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Kloudlite is a cloud development environment platform that links developer workspaces with application services, so code changes can be tested…
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DevZero
DevZero is a Kubernetes optimization platform for workload rightsizing, node autoscaling, and security scanning.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI8.0From $5 a month - 5

Daytona
Daytona provides an isolated runtime for running AI-generated code and agent workflows, with sandbox creation stated at under 90ms.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.9Free plan - 6
GitHub Codespaces
GitHub Codespaces provides configured cloud development environments hosted by GitHub.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.9Free plan - 7

Coder
Coder is a self-hosted platform for AI coding agents and cloud development environments on infrastructure you control.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPIExtensionLinux7.7Free plan - 8

Okteto
Okteto provides isolated, production-like environments on a team's infrastructure where developers and AI agents can build, run, and test changes…
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxmacOS7.7Free plan - 9
PaizaCloud Cloud IDE
PaizaCloud Cloud IDE is a browser-based development environment with an editor, web server, database server, and terminal in a cloud workspace.
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux7.7From $9.80 a month - 10

RunCode.io
RunCode.io provides cloud development workspaces with VS Code in a browser, while builds and tests run on the cloud machine.
Free planAndroidiOSWebExtension7.6From $0.03 a month - 11

DevPod
DevPod creates reproducible development environments in separate containers defined through devcontainer.json.
Free planOpen sourceLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows7.4Free plan - 12

Bunnyshell
Bunnyshell creates temporary, production-like environments for pull requests, making it an environment platform for engineering teams.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.5From $0.01 a month - 13

Google Cloud Workstations
Google Cloud Workstations provides managed development environments for security-sensitive enterprises.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.5 - 14
SourceLair
Web6.5From $10 a month - 15

Citrix SecurSpaces
Citrix SecurSpaces provides self-serve, containerized Linux development environments for developers.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.4 - 16

Eclipse Che
Free planWebLinuxSelf-hosted6.4Free plan - 17

AWS Cloud9
AWS Cloud9 is a browser-based IDE for writing, running, and debugging code, with an editor, debugger, and terminal.
Free planWebLinux6.3Free plan - 18
CodeSandbox
CodeSandbox is a web and iOS service for creating development environments that run code, with an SDK for starting those environments programmatically.
iOSWeb6.2 - 19

Ona
Ona is an enterprise software factory for running governed background agents in cloud development environments.
iOSWebAPISelf-hosted6.2From $20 a month - 20

Binder
Binder provides shareable, interactive computing environments that can be launched from publicly available code repositories.
Free planWebSelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 21

Devsy
Devsy provides standardized developer workspaces for developers and AI coding agents.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.0 - 22
Koding
Koding lets organizations create and share automated development environments on infrastructure they control.
WebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.0 - 23
Microsoft Dev Box
Microsoft Dev Box gives developers self-service access to cloud workstations configured for coding.
AndroidiOSWebLinux6.0 - 24
Orchard
Orchard is a free, open-source, self-hosted development environment that provisions ready-to-code workspaces, called groves, from Git repositories.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.0 - 25

Codesphere
Codesphere combines software-development lifecycle tools in a platform deployable on-premise, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments.
WebAPISelf-hosted5.6


