Coder OSS

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(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)

AGPL-3.0 OSI core (Community Edition) with a separate proprietary Premium/Enterprise tier, which makes it open core. The core counts as gated on a named mechanism rather than merely because a paid tier exists. coder/coder carries two top-level licenses: the root AGPL-3.0 and LICENSE.enterprise, the latter scoped by its own text to the "directory named enterprise". That directory is in the published tree but not under the open license, it contains the audit log, group/RBAC and AI seat-tracking implementations, and the enterprise license forbids circumventing the license key that unlocks them. The carve-out sits inside the repository itself, rather than the whole product shipping open with a service sold beside it.

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

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

• 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://raw.githubusercontent.com/coder/coder/main/LICENSE.enterprise recorded 2026-08-12

  Scopes itself to "any software and associated documentation files under Coder Technologies Inc.’s ("Coder") directory named "enterprise"", and states under Limitations: "You may not move, change, disable, or circumvent the license key functionality in the software, and you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software that is protected by the license key." Production use additionally requires agreement to Coder’s Terms of Service.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coder/coder/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-12

  Root license is the GNU Affero General Public License v3, verbatim, governing everything the enterprise carve-out does not name.

No published install or active-user count for the open source edition; GitHub stars are the only concrete signal - 14,143 on the one declared repo, which falls in the >10K star band. A star is not a download, so a star-based reading is capped at level 3, and 3 is where this sits, on broad enterprise positioning plus the star base, with actual usage unverified. There is no download channel to band on instead: the codercom/coder Docker Hub repository is deprecated, its description redirecting to GitHub Container Registry, with 31,179 pulls in total since 2021 and no push since 2024, and GHCR publishes no pull count. A star count moves daily, so the figure is a snapshot rather than evidence of change.

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

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

• 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://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.

Strong as a persistent governed dev-environment platform, but a poor fit for what this category asks - safely running arbitrary agent-generated code in an ephemeral sandbox. Isolation and cold-start depend on the Terraform template backing the workspace rather than on a purpose-built sandbox, so 3. It belongs more with dev environments than with the agent sandboxes around it. Coder Agents runs the agent loop in the control plane so that no model credentials sit in the workspace, but that is governance rather than isolation strength or cold-start, so the band holds at 3.

• 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 2026-08-13

  Terraform-defined workspaces on EC2 VMs, Kubernetes pods or Docker containers; Wireguard tunnel; idle shutdown; Coder Agents executing the agent loop in the control plane with no LLM credentials in workspaces, plus centralized model governance and audit logging.