Coder

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 features withheld

yes — the enterprise/ tree - audit logs, groups/RBAC, AI seat tracking - is governed by LICENSE.enterprise rather than the AGPL root, and that license forbids circumventing the license key protecting those features

Coder OSS is AGPL-3.0 except for a directory named enterprise, governed by a separate LICENSE.enterprise that gates audit logging, group and role-based access control, and AI seat tracking behind a license key. Because that carve-out lives inside the published repository itself rather than only in a hosted service sold beside it, Coder is open core rather than fully open source.

• https://api.github.com/repos/coder/coder/git/trees/main?recursive=1 recorded 2026-08-12

  Full untruncated recursive tree, 13,459 entries. A top-level enterprise/ directory holds the paid surface - enterprise/audit/ with postgres and slog backends, enterprise/aiseats/tracker.go, enterprise/cli/licenses.go, enterprise/cli/features.go, enterprise/cli/group*.go - and a second top-level LICENSE.enterprise sits beside the root LICENSE.

• https://github.com/coder/coder recorded 2026-06-04

  AGPL-3.0 Community Edition + Premium paid tier (compare-plans), self-hosted workspaces

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coder/coder/main/enterprise/aiseats/tracker.go recorded 2026-09-29

  Publicly served source file under the enterprise directory of the repository, whose comment reads "SeatTracker records current AI seat state for users."

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coder/coder/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-29

  The root license file is the AGPL text, headed "GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE" and "Version 3, 19 November 2007".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coder/coder/main/LICENSE.enterprise recorded 2026-09-29

  The enterprise license applies to software under the directory named "enterprise" and forbids working around the key: "You may not move, change, disable, or circumvent the license key functionality".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coder/coder/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

  The README points to the paid tier with "Learn about paid features built for large teams" and states "Dedicated support is included in Coder Premium."

GitHub stars are the only adoption signal published for Coder OSS's self-hosted edition, and a star is not a use, so this describes attention rather than confirmed usage. There is no download channel to measure instead: the project's old Docker Hub image is deprecated in favor of GitHub Container Registry, which publishes no pull count.

• https://api.github.com/repos/coder/coder recorded 2026-08-13

  14,143 stargazers; repository public and unarchived; no download or install count is exposed by the API.

• https://github.com/coder/coder recorded 2026-06-04

  ~13.4k stars; self-hosted CDE used by enterprises; no usage figure

• https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/codercom/coder recorded 2026-08-13

  Deprecated image - full_description reads "Looking for v2 releases? We now publish our images on GitHub's container registry"; pull_count 31,179 lifetime, last_updated 2024-08-20.

Coder OSS is a persistent, governed dev-environment platform, with each workspace a Terraform-provisioned VM, container or Kubernetes pod, so isolation and cold start depend on the backing template rather than a purpose-built sandbox. Coder Agents runs the agent loop in the control plane rather than the workspace, which is a governance feature rather than an isolation improvement.

• https://coder.com/docs/admin/templates recorded 2026-09-29

  The templates docs index describes "Create a Coder template with Terraform to define the infrastructure for your workspaces." and template settings that control how "workspaces autostart, autostop, and stay available".

• https://coder.com/docs/user-guides/workspace-lifecycle recorded 2026-09-29

  The workspace lifecycle page states "Persistent resources stay provisioned when the workspace is stopped" and "ephemeral resources are destroyed and recreated on restart".

• https://github.com/coder/coder recorded 2026-06-04

  Terraform-defined persistent workspaces, Wireguard tunnel, AI-agent workspace support

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coder/coder/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

  The README says "Workspaces are defined with Terraform, connected through a secure Wireguard® tunnel, and automatically shut down when not used" and that "Coder Agents runs a native AI coding agent whose loop executes in the control plane on your infrastructure, with no API keys in workspaces."