Infrastructure / Deployment

Coder OSS

Open-source platform for provisioning remote dev environments (Terraform-defined workspaces on K8s, VMs, or bare metal), increasingly used as the substrate for self-hosted agent execution environments. Picked over GitHub Codespaces when teams want full BYOC control and have aggressively repositioned in 2026 toward AI-agent workspaces. ~13.3k stars, very active (2,055 commits in 90d).

coder/coder, v2.33.6 released 23 May 2026. Self-hosted Cloud Development Environment platform (Terraform-defined workspaces, Wireguard tunnel); now marketed as 'Secure environments for developers and their agents' with native AI-agent workspace support. Verified live on GitHub June 2026. NOTE: primarily a CDE/workspace manager rather than an ephemeral agent code-execution sandbox.

Openness

4 high confidence

4.0

license: AGPL-3.0(OSI, Community Edition)
source: public(GitHub)
commercial-tier: Premium/Enterprise paid features for large teams under separate Coder enterprise license
core-gated: gated

AGPL-3.0 OSI core (Community Edition) with a separate proprietary Premium/Enterprise tier => open_core, calibrated identically to the Ray anchor (O4 open_core).

https://github.com/coder/coder recorded 2026-06-04
AGPL-3.0 Community Edition + Premium paid tier (compare-plans), self-hosted workspaces

Adoption

3 low confidence

3.0

No published install/active-user count for the OSS edition; ~13.4k GitHub stars is the only concrete signal. Stars-fallback caps at level 3; placed at 3 (not higher) on broad enterprise positioning + star base, but reach is unverified by usage_volume.

https://github.com/coder/coder recorded 2026-06-04
~13.4k stars; self-hosted CDE used by enterprises; no usage_volume figure

Capability

3 medium confidence

3.0

Strong as a persistent governed dev-environment platform but a poor fit for the deployment litmus 'safely run arbitrary agent-generated code in an ephemeral sandbox' - isolation/cold-start depend on the infra template, not a purpose-built sandbox; scored 3. Belongs more in a dev-environment shelf than the agent-sandbox sub-segment.

https://github.com/coder/coder recorded 2026-06-04
Terraform-defined persistent workspaces, Wireguard tunnel, AI-agent workspace support

Unchanged since 2026-07-30 (last edited, not re-checked)