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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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Modelence
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI app builder that generates full-stack apps with auth, database and one-click production deploys from a prompt.
25K visits/mo
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Firebase Studio
✓ verifiedFree
Browser-based AI dev workspace by Google for full-stack apps; being sunset on 22 Mar 2027, no new workspaces.
531K visits/mo
Pricing
Community: $0 (open-source, self-hosted, unlimited workspaces)
Free trial available
Free: $0/mo ($5 App Builder usage)
Starter: $20/mo (1 production instance)
Pro: $100/mo (5 production instances)
No public pricing
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
- ✦Full-stack app generation from prompts
- ✦Built-in auth and user management
- ✦Managed MongoDB database
- ✦One-click production deploys and scaling
- ✦Editable, owned source code
- ✦Open-source web framework
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Standardize developer environments
- →Run AI coding agents securely on-prem
- →Enforce governance and compliance
- →Cut VDI costs
- →Speed up developer onboarding
- →Launching an MVP quickly
- →Building internal tools and admin apps
- →Shipping SaaS without a backend team
- →Prototyping product ideas
- →Prototyping apps from a prompt or mockup
- →Building full-stack apps in the browser
- →Collaborating and sharing preview URLs
- →Deploying and monitoring apps quickly
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