Coder
by Coder · Self-hosted development environments for developers and AI coding agents
49 — BenchRank score out of 100
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Overview
Coder provides self-hosted development environments, called workspaces, that developers and AI coding agents work in, reached through web and desktop IDEs, a web UI, a CLI and a REST API. Templates standardise those environments, and the Premium tier adds governance controls such as audit logging, resource quotas and multi-organisation access.
- Best for
- Enterprises wanting developers and AI coding agents to work in governed, self-hosted environments
- Pricing
- A free open-source Community tier; Premium is billed annually per user but no figure is published, so you start a trial or contact sales.
- Runs on
- Self-hostedCLI
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Free tier gives unlimited workspaces, templates and members
- Runs on your own infrastructure rather than a vendor cloud
- Web and desktop IDEs incl. VS Code, JetBrains, Jupyter, Cursor
- Premium adds audit logging and multi-organisation access control
Trade-offs
- Premium pricing is not published; you must start a trial or contact sales
- Community is limited to one platform and one external auth integration
- Audit logging, high availability and resource quotas are Premium-only
- Self-hosted only, so you supply and operate the infrastructure
Pricing
Published plans from Coder’s own pricing page, in USD. Usage charges and add-ons may apply on top.
| Plan | Monthly | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Community | — |
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| Premium | Contact sales |
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How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
- MCP support
- 0 out of 100
- API quality
- 5 out of 100
- Documentation
- 100 out of 100
- Agent friendliness
- 98 out of 100
- Pricing transparency
- 35 out of 100
- Changelog
- 100 out of 100
- Marketing site structure
- 65 out of 100
- Operational trust
- 30 out of 100
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
- Openness
- 25 out of 100
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