Lightning AI Studios vs Python Playground
Lightning AI Studios
lightning.aiPython Playground
python-playground.comSide by side
| Figure | Lightning AI Studios | Python Playground |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $20/mo | $3/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 9 | 5 |
| Spec score · Coding Playgrounds | 9.3 (#6) | 8.6 (#28) |
| Deployment options | full_stack | none |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Full-stack runtime | Yes | No |
| Private projects | Yes | Yes |
| Real-time collaboration | Yes | No |
| Sharing controls | access_control | access_control |
| Support | Lightning lists email, Discord, and Twitter as support channels, and a dedicated Slack channel for enterprise support. | Support is provided by email at [email protected] and through the Playground Manager support form. |
Plans
Lightning AI Studios
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Pro$20 a month
- Pro (annual)$20 a month
- Pro (monthly)$50 a month
- Teams$119 a month
- Teams (annual)$119 a month
- Teams (monthly)$140 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
Python Playground
- Free PlanFree
- Monthly Plan$5 a month
- Annual Plan$36 a year
- Pro Plan$59 a month
- Pro Plan$59, paid once
In their own words
Lightning AI Studios
Lightning AI Studios is a cloud workspace for training models, running inference, building agents and AI apps, and coding collaboratively. Its persistent environments save installed packages, custom Python versions, and downloaded files. Studios offer browser-accessible VS Code and JupyterLab, plus AI copilots for AI and machine-learning work, including CUDA and PyTorch debugging. Teams can collaborate in real time on private projects, use a full-stack runtime, and deploy full-stack applications. Users can connect S3 buckets and EFS volumes through Lightning Drive, import models from Hugging Face and GitHub, or connect local IDEs such as VS Code, Cursor, and PyCharm over SSH. An SDK supports workflow automation. The Free plan is free and includes one active Studio, 50 GB persistent storage, and up to two concurrent GPUs; that Studio requires a restart every four hours. Pro and Teams plans have higher storage and GPU limits. Enterprise offers deployment in a customer VPC using AWS or GCP cloud credits.
Python Playground
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