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Google Cloud Workstations vs JupyterLab

Google Cloud Workstations

cloud.google.com

JupyterLab

jupyter.org

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FigureGoogle Cloud WorkstationsJupyterLab
Price from$0.05/moFree
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source—Yes
WebYesYes
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
APIYesYes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published31
Spec score · Coding Playgrounds8.4 (#33)9.1 (#9)
Founded19982014
Free planNoYes
PurposeCloud Workstations provides fully managed development environments aimed at security-sensitive enterprises.JupyterLab is a web-based interactive development environment for notebooks, code, and data.

Plans

Google Cloud Workstations

  • Workstation management fee$0.05 a month
  • Control plane$0.20 a month
  • Usage-based pricing — e2-standard-2 (us-central1)$0.17 a month

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JupyterLab

  • JupyterLabFree

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In their own words

Google Cloud Workstations

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JupyterLab

JupyterLab is a web-based environment for interactive work with notebooks, code and data. Its workspace brings notebooks, text editors, terminals and custom components together in tabs and splitters. Code consoles act as scratchpads, and kernel-backed documents can run code in files such as Markdown, Python, R and LaTeX. It supports the .ipynb format used by classic Jupyter Notebook, and can view and edit formats including Markdown, images, CSV, JSON, HTML, LaTeX and PDF. Visualization libraries include matplotlib and Plotly; interactive plots or widgets may require additional packages. Extensions can add themes, viewers, editors, output renderers and interface controls, but can execute code in the browser, server and kernel, so only trusted extensions are advised. Real-time collaboration can be enabled with jupyter_collaboration. JavaScript and HTML outputs from notebooks created elsewhere remain hidden until the notebook is trusted. JupyterLab is free, open-source software under a modified BSD license, installed with pip or via a Homebrew command for macOS and Linux. It runs on Linux, macOS, the web and self-hosted systems.

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