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Coder
✓ verifiedFreemium
Self-hosted cloud development environments and AI-agent governance, letting enterprises run coding agents on their own infrastructure.
208K visits/mo41 saves
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Firebase Studio
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Browser-based AI dev workspace by Google for full-stack apps; being sunset on 22 Mar 2027, no new workspaces.
531K visits/mo
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Relace
✓ verifiedFreemium
Specialized small AI models and infrastructure that give coding agents fast codebase retrieval and file-editing at high speed.
17K visits/mo
Pricing
Community: $0 (open-source, self-hosted, unlimited workspaces)
Free trial available
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Core features
- ✦Self-hosted workspaces with desktop and web IDEs
- ✦Coder Agents run coding agents on isolated infrastructure
- ✦AI Governance gateway for LLM usage control
- ✦SSO (OpenID Connect) and role/group sync
- ✦Audit logging and resource quotas
- ✦Multi-organization access controls
- ✦High availability and workspace proxies
- ✦Cloud workspaces for full-stack development
- ✦App Prototyping agent from natural language
- ✦Gemini AI for coding, debugging and docs
- ✦Repo import from GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket
- ✦Web previews and Android emulators
- ✦Deploy to Firebase App Hosting, Hosting or Cloud Run
- ✦Semantic code retrieval across large codebases
- ✦Fast Apply model for high-speed file edit merging
- ✦Lightweight repo push/pull built for agent workflows
- ✦Self-hosted and VPC-isolated deployment options
- ✦SOC 2 compliant hosted infrastructure
- ✦Playground for testing models before integration
Use cases
- →Standardize developer environments
- →Run AI coding agents securely on-prem
- →Enforce governance and compliance
- →Cut VDI costs
- →Speed up developer onboarding
- →Prototyping apps from a prompt or mockup
- →Building full-stack apps in the browser
- →Collaborating and sharing preview URLs
- →Deploying and monitoring apps quickly
- →Equipping a coding agent with fast codebase search
- →Merging AI-suggested file edits reliably at scale
- →Deploying code AI models in a compliance-restricted environment
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