DevPod vs DevZero
DevPod
devpod.sh
DevZero
devzero.ioSide by side
| Figure | DevPod | DevZero |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $5/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 7 |
| Spec score · Cloud Development Environments | 8.7 (#5) | 9.1 (#2) |
| Company size | Wellfound lists Loft Labs as a 51–200-person startup headquartered in San Francisco. | Gartner lists the company at 11–50 employees, while G2 displays 25 employees on LinkedIn. |
| Funding | Wellfound lists $4.6 million raised in one seed round dated September 22, 2021. | Crunchbase lists two funding rounds, including a Series A, and names Madrona and Foundation Capital among three investors. |
| What it does | DevPod creates reproducible developer environments in containers defined by devcontainer.json files. | DevZero profiles, schedules and rightsizes Kubernetes workloads, including CPU and GPU resources, with zero-restarter optimization. |
Plans
DevZero
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Free inferenceFree
- Pro$5 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
- Inference EnterprisePriced on request
- Inference pay-as-you-goPrice not published
In their own words
DevPod
DevPod creates repeatable development environments in containers described by devcontainer.json. It can place those environments on the developer’s computer, a reachable remote machine, or a public or private cloud, while the client itself runs locally without a server backend. The software is open source and extensible, with maintained providers for Docker, Kubernetes, SSH, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and DigitalOcean; users can also add providers from GitHub, a URL, or a local provider.yaml file. It works with VS Code and the JetBrains suite, and other IDEs can connect over SSH. Prebuilds, automatic shutdown during inactivity, and Git and Docker credential synchronization are included. Machine providers use secure tunnels, including AWS Instance Connect, Google Cloud IAP, and Azure Bastion. DevPod is free, with desktop downloads for macOS, Windows, and Linux and a CLI for macOS, Windows, and Linux on AMD or ARM. Port forwarding depends on an IDE or SSH session.