Coder
Self-hosted infrastructure for governed developer workspaces and AI coding agents, accessible through IDEs, the web, CLI, and API.
About Coder
Coder provides self-hosted development infrastructure for developer workspaces and AI coding agents on an organization’s own cloud, on-premises, or air-gapped systems. Platform teams can provision isolated environments, connect developers through desktop or browser-based IDEs, and expose workflows through a web interface, command-line tool, and API. Its AI governance capabilities centralize authentication, model and provider approval, prompt and tool-call logging, token and spend visibility, and network controls for agent activity. The Community edition supports unlimited workspaces, templates, and members within one organization, while Premium adds enterprise controls such as audit logging, multi-organization access, quotas, high availability, workspace proxies, role-based access, and ticketed support with an SLA. Coder fits organizations that want development and agent execution close to protected source code and internal systems, but adopting it also means operating self-hosted infrastructure and evaluating an annually billed per-user Premium plan for advanced governance and scale features.
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Best use cases
Provision isolated workspaces for developers and approved coding agents on company-managed infrastructure.
Centralize model approval, prompt and tool-call logs, token visibility, and agent activity for governed AI adoption.
Standardize development environments with templates while supporting browser, desktop IDE, CLI, and API access.
Compare before choosing
Choose Coder when self-hosted control matters more than avoiding infrastructure operations.
Community covers one organization and community support; Premium adds enterprise governance, availability, and support features.
The platform supports multiple IDEs and agent choices, while advanced access controls and audit functions belong to Premium.
Features
Govern AI coding agents
Run approved coding agents in isolated, self-hosted workspaces with centralized visibility into prompts, models, tool calls, token use, and activity.
Standardize developer workspaces
Provision repeatable environments from templates and let developers connect with supported desktop or web-based IDEs, the web interface, CLI, or API.
Control enterprise development access
Apply identity, role, quota, audit, availability, and network controls when development environments must remain on company-managed infrastructure.
Pros
- Self-hosting keeps developer and agent execution on infrastructure the organization controls.
- Community provides unlimited workspaces, templates, and members in one organization without a license charge.
- Support for browser and desktop IDEs, plus web, CLI, and API access, fits varied engineering workflows.
Cons
- Self-hosted deployment requires the organization to operate and maintain the underlying infrastructure.
- Audit logging, high availability, quotas, workspace proxies, and advanced role controls require Premium.
- Premium is billed annually per user, so enterprise adoption introduces a recurring seat-based cost.
Pricing Plans
Community
- Unlimited workspaces and templates
- Unlimited members within a single organization
- Desktop and web-based IDEs
- Web UI, CLI, and API access
- AI coding agent tasks
- OpenID Connect single sign-on
- Community support through Discord and GitHub
Premium
- Everything in Community
- Ticket-based global support with SLA
- Multi-organization access controls
- Organization and user resource quotas
- Audit logging
- High availability with multiple server replicas
- Workspace proxies for global relays
- Group and user role-based access controls
* Pricing information is for reference only. Please refer to the latest announcement on Coder's official website.