Paperspace Notebooks is a hosted, browser-based Jupyter IDE for data exploration and machine-learning development, with GPU-enabled compute.
Best Notebook Software in 2026
For interactive work that combines code with notes or analysis, notebook software offers different ways to run, share and maintain projects. Compare execution model and supported languages with the notebook formats you need; GPU compute may also be relevant to your work. Deepnote, Datalore and JupyterLab are among the options to consider. Real-time collaboration and version history can help you assess how each fits…
Pluto.jl is a free, open-source reactive notebook for the Julia programming language, designed for education.
Datalore is a collaborative data science platform for exploring, analyzing, visualizing, and sharing data.
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Google Colab
Google Colab lets users write and execute Python in a browser without configuration, with access to GPUs and notebook sharing.
Free planWebAPIExtensionSelf-hosted7.6Free plan - 5

JupyterLab
JupyterLab is a free, web-based interactive environment for working with notebooks, code, and data.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxmacOS7.6Free plan - 6
Deepnote
Deepnote is an AI workspace for data analysis, exploration, and machine learning.
Free planWebAPIExtensionLinux7.2From $3,920 a month - 7

marimo
marimo is an open-source reactive Python notebook for reproducible experiments, data work, and building apps.
Free planWebAPIExtensionLinux7.1Free plan - 8

Hex
Hex is a hosted data platform for exploring information, asking questions, and building data applications.
Free planWebAPI7.0From $36 a month - 9

Apache Zeppelin
Apache Zeppelin is a web-based notebook for interactive data analytics and collaborative documents.
Free planWebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.9Free plan - 10

Kaggle Notebooks
Kaggle Notebooks is a free cloud environment for reproducible, collaborative machine learning analysis.
Free planWebAPI6.9Free plan - 11

Observable
Observable is a notebook platform for analyzing and visualizing data, explaining ideas with code, and building data-driven workflows and custom apps.
Free planWebSelf-hosted6.9From $22 a month - 12

Nextjournal
Nextjournal is a notebook for reproducible research and data-driven work, available as a hosted web service or for self-hosting.
Free planWebSelf-hosted6.8From $299 a month - 13

Saturn Cloud
Saturn Cloud is a platform for operating GPU infrastructure as metered AI services.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.8$0.09 usage-based - 14

JupyterHub
JupyterHub lets organizations provide computational environments to groups without requiring each user to install and maintain an individual setup.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.6Free plan - 15
SageMath
SageMath is a free, open-source mathematics system for calculations across subjects such as algebra, calculus, number theory, cryptography, numerical…
Free planWebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.6Free plan - 16

JupyterLite
JupyterLite is a free, open-source JupyterLab distribution that runs in a browser, without a dedicated application server.
Free planAndroidWebLinuxSelf-hosted6.5Free plan - 17

Mathematica
Mathematica is a technical computing system for computation, programming, visualization, and related workflows.
WebLinuxmacOSWindows6.5 - 18

Dnote
Dnote is a free, open-source terminal notebook for storing commands, snippets, and insights and retrieving them with full-text search.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.2Free plan - 19
Polynote
Polynote is a free, open-source notebook application with first-class Scala support.
Free planWebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 20

BinderHub
BinderHub is open-source software for creating shareable, interactive computing environments from code repositories.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 21
Quiver
Quiver is a macOS notebook for programmers that combines text, code, Markdown, LaTeX and diagrams in one note.
macOS6.0$9.99 one-time - 22

Kubeflow Notebooks
Kubeflow Notebooks provides interactive development environments for AI, machine learning, and data workloads, running notebook containers directly…
WebSelf-hosted5.9 - 23

nteract
nteract is a free local notebook environment for Jupyter workflows involving people and AI agents.
LinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows5.7 - 24

Oracle Machine Learning Notebooks
Oracle Machine Learning Notebooks is a hosted notebook environment accessed through the web.
Web5.0 - 25
Kubeflow Pipelines
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