# Gitpod Reviews **Vendor:** Gitpod **Category:** [Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-platform-as-a-service-paas) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About Gitpod Gitpod is a developer platform that provides on-demand, pre-configured cloud development environments (CDEs) that automatically integrate into any tool, library, or dependency required for creating software. Getting started with Gitpod simply requires adding a .gitpod.yml file to the root of any repository or prefix any GitLab, GitHub or Bitbucket URL with gitpod.io/#. Gitpod CDEs are best for organizations that are looking to drastically cut onboarding time for developers, increase the productivity of their teams or secure their development supply chains. Gitpod CDEs are available in two deployments: Dedicated and Cloud. Gitpod Dedicated is hosted within your VPC and managed by Gitpod, enabling maximum security with minimal overhead. Gitpod Cloud is managed and hosted by Gitpod and is best for any teams that want to get started with zero installation and have less security or compliance requirements. ## Gitpod Reviews ### 1. Great platform for faster and reliable codespaces. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Full Stack Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** Gitpod provides very fast VMs for using our codespaces on very end machines. It has allmost all of our Git platforms to connect and start coding with them. It has many code editors to launch their high end codespaces on them for our development. It also supports browser version of code editors to directly code through any browser and from anywhere we want. **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** Its charges a bit high for limited time of VMs usage. **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gitpod has provided very high end VMs for our coding, which helps us launch very resource intensive code editors on any browser. It easily connects with all of our git providers, which helps us keep our code updated and managed from anywhere. It has all the code editors we want to code on, which makes our overall development process very simpler and easier. ### 2. Cloud IDEs: fast onboarding and isolated reproducible environments **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robbert H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** * Onboarding people is a matter of granting them access to gitlab repos, as soon as they have that, they can start coding. No need to deal with Windows laptops where you need admin for everything :D * One unexpected benefit was that the environments are not only reproducible, they're also isolated: you can work on 2 branches at the same time by spinning up 2 gitpod workspaces. * Prebuilds ease the pain of waiting for workspace boot. * We could shut down our previous notebook solution thanks to gitpod using a vscode notebook plugin. **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** The web IDE is close, but not quite the same as regular desktop experience, for example copy pasting shortcuts don't seem to work and of course there's some workspace boot time. **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** Onboarding users, reproducible environments (config in the repo itself). It benefits me personally because as a platform engineer, I have to spend less time configuring users' environments. Just click the gitpod button and code away. ### 3. Easy to set up, happy engineers and excellent support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jelle D. | Lecturer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** Gitpod allows engineers to focus as much of their time as possible on delivering business value. With Gitpod, engineers don't have to worry about installing tools and can start coding right away. Gitpod workspaces boot up in seconds, run in the cloud (right next to your data) and thus also give you the power of cloud machines. Big enterprises typically don't gave very good engineering laptops, which is also solved by using a Cloud IDE such as Gitpod. As an internal developer platform team, it allows us to onboard new engineers much faster than before. Where in the past people had to go through 20 documentation pages with all the tools that needed to be installed, this can now be provided by the platform team as a script in the .gitpod.yml configuration file. **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** In general you see that the market is still quite young for cloud IDEs and that you can't use all the features of Jetbrain products yet. Next to that, plugins on the marketplace sometimes don't work. **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Slow enterprise laptops - Secure connectivty to data systems (data doens't have to be on personal laptops anymore) - Onboarding people instantly without losing time - Helping to bridge the disconnect between the "experimentation" and "industrialization" phases of the data product lifecycle. People can now run Jupyter notebooks right next to their code in an IDE. This promotes better writing of functions and prevents copy pasting code after the machine learning model experiments are done. In the past, when people finished developed a machine learning model in a notebook, they had to go to the next step, which is industrializing the code and making sure the predictions are run everyday or in real-time. People often had to copy paste code from a notebook to an IDE. ### 4. Elevate Your Development Workflow with Gitpod: A Game-Changer for Efficiency and Collaboration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hannes D. | Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** Gitpod transforms our development workflow, making onboarding a breeze, enabling secure data access for BYOD setups without the need for a VPN, and enforcing best practices. Most importantly, it turbocharges engineer efficiency. Our engineers can be productive and deploy to production from day one and don't lose time with inconsistent environments. As a result, I (platform engineer) don't have to offer as much support, this having more focus time myself. The initial dedicated SAAS setup, was up and running in no time. And the support we receive troughout the process has been tremendous. **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** I am an intelij user and setting up the integration wasn't as easy as it was for VS code. **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Slow onboarding - No Data access for BYOD - Inconsistent development environments ### 5. Avoid, use one of the larger players **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John A. | Founder, CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** Not much at this point. Devcontainers in general are great **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** When we started using gitpod, we were pretty happy. Throughout 2023 though, we've come to loathe our decision to choose gitpod over larger players like github codespaces or jetbrains space. Just this year, they have: - Doubled prices (more than doubled for most use cases, in fact) - Support has gone down the drain. We sent in our most recent tech question 9 days ago, still have not gotten an answer (and I can provide screenshots if needed) - Dropped their open source. We use their SaaS product, but this leaves a horrible taste in our mouths. For years and years, they got lots of help/support/feedback from the community, precisely because they maintained an open source product that could be used by nonprofits, academics, etc. who might not have the funds to pay for SaaS. In one fell swoop, they dropped all of those folks. Now they're purely profiting off the backs of all that help the got from the community We wish we had gone with a different company, and as soon as we can get the time to migrate, we will. **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud dev containers for software development ### 6. The only cloud development platform worth exploring **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anup J. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** Gitpod is the simplest way to ensure that all development environments are at parity and have no differences. Gitpod is almost beautifully fast. It's instantaneous to startup and cheap to build out on your own. The custom Dockerfile ensures that endlessly complex development setups can be built into the Gitpod systems. The configurations system ensures that plugins which are notorious for having compatibility issues can be transferred across setups with relatively little pain **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** The config system is somewhat confusing. There's no reason to have a text file-based config system and the config system should automatically build itself from development enviroment. Also Gitpod task execution system does weird things while runnig commands. **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** its ensures that new members on the team don't have their time wasting in have to adapt to complex development environment and can help them to contribute immediately to the team ### 7. Super easy environment to develop, test, and run scripts **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam T. | Director Of Marketing, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** It takes a few seconds to spin up a clean, customized dev server/environment that I can access from anywhere in my browser. Uses VScode for the browser-based IDE, which is great. Runs on top of GitHub. **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** There have been a few bugs (eg Python environments not auto-running pip install requirements) but they haven't been anything I couldn't work around. No other problems, really. **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to almost instantly setup a clean environment complete with browser-based IDE, dev server, and needed software. Saves a lot of time and hassle, especially since I tend to work on a number of small projects at once. ### 8. Feature rich, inventive in browser IDE **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr Kamlesh P. | Professor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** I can set up and start working on almost any codebase hosted on a git platform within minutes, without having to worry about the RAM that IDEs like VS Code or IntelliJ gobble up. It has the same integration support as provided by the local IDEs. By just adding a prefix, I can create a gitpod workspace for any github repo. It also leaves the workspaces open for a considerable period, meaning that I don't have to worry about losing uncommitted changes. **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** Java support is limited on Gitpod. I cannot switch IDEs - it is either VS Code or IntelliJ, for all repos associated with a user. Build scripts are often hard to tweak when buggy **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** In absence of a RAM rich laptop, Gitpod ensures that it utilizes the speed of cloud servers to provide cloud IDE services, thereby greatly speeding up the development process. Any code on Github or another SCM system can be loaded into a Gitpod workspace, worked upon and committed, with builds taking seconds rather than hours ### 9. Regarding the user experience of Gitpod **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** Best part is I could easily work on any machine as there are no limitations regarding configuration capabilities. Integration with Github makes life easy for us. **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** To first connect github still requires some technical work that could be hard for all users. I think the user interface could be further improved than the existing. **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using almost all open source softwares and came upon this while searching. My usage was limited to understand how the thing actually it works and in future it might be helpful for me to integrate with my codes. ### 10. Best open source developer platform for remote development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** I am using gitpod from last one year and its Best open source developer platform for remote development.If you have already worked with VS Code, Gitpod will be very familiar to you. It has all the power of VS Code from your browser, connects seamlessly to your repository and you can test your code with its CI system. A nice feature is being able to do code reviews directly from the IDE. **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** If your gitpod is in ideal condition for more than 5mins it automatically stops the workspace. That is no exact disadvantage but on ther alternatives this functionality is rare. **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using gitpod to work on client given tasks in their repository. Its kind of client vm. Because we dont need to install any sofware or any tool to use client repository or to work on their repository. And we can also connect our jira ticket to it. ### 11. Code just about anywhere with Gitpod **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avinash U. | DevOps Engineer-I, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** Gitpod provides a cloud developer environment to run most kinds of web applications on the browser without worrying about the infrastructure. Gitpod can also be highly customised and comes with an IDE. There are powerful machines provided by Gitpod and with most necessary tools preinstalled. The environment creation time is quick and very cost effective. Gitpod also allows to save environment in case it is customised and is required to be persisted. Gitpod can also be integrated with local Visual Studio Code, allowing to work on the local IDE but with a remote environment. **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** The lack of stateful environments is an inconvinience at times i.e, you will need to install gloabl dependencies each time your environment times out even though it is not deleted. The terminal behaves abnormally at times. It would be great to see workspaces from another git provider when logged in from a git provider i.e, we cannot see workspaces from GitLab when logged in through GitHub, makes it inconvinient to switch accounts frequently. Gitpod lacks Windows environment, making it futile for Windows based web applications. **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gitpod solved issues with local development environments by spinning up new environments for each application. Gitpod's team feature allows better collaboration with teammates and increased productivity due to not having to debug environment issues. ### 12. Gitpod disguised as git features in IDE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** Gitpod is an extension used in Visual Studio Code & Web browsers. All the basic features available in GIT are easily accessible in IDE. No need to switch between GIT UI & IDE while any commit is done in GIT. **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** Not much to be disliked about this extension. The recent commit that is done in GIT will be shown as soon you pull the changes. The changes will be shown parallelly which is annoying. **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** No need to switch between screens for the changes done. All the basic features with the comment & commit message are the highlight of the code changes done previously. Very helpful with the developer & the project manager's perspective. ### 13. Best IDE experience in the browser, functionally, aesthetically and productively **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dushyant P. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** - Blazing fast installation of dependencies like node modules which otherwise takes hours on PCs with considerably less RAM - Shortcut to directly open a Github repo as a Gitpod project so that I don't need to clone something to run it and see - Constantly being upgraded for more features, including extensions and functions - Keeps your work safe even if you're inactive for a bit and haven't committed code. **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** - Working with Java projects is complex. I have never been able to do it satisfactorily - I lose all my changes if I mistakenly forget to commit and close the browser tab. It does not prompt me to commit changes - Uploading images/files is sometimes slow and confusing **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working on multiple RAM-consuming projects with a PC built to support a fraction of those, Gitpod has been a savior for me. I dedicate me being able to set up my blog to Gitpod, since my computer just used to hang up every time I tried. Features are also regularly incorporated and I find almost all extensions, features in Gitpod that I find on VS Code locally. For me, open source takes a great deal of my priority, and it's very easy to set up and run github repos directly, without going through the hassle of cloning them on local and wait for hours for it to set up. ### 14. Best Remote Development Idea **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** especially when we are doing work from home gitpod is best for collaborating workspace for helping to do coding on cloud-based IDE like VsCode. **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** right now it is good for my perspective. as I used it when I am doing work from home. **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** definitely, it solves so many problems like dependencies of code and saves installation time for development IDE. ### 15. Awesome VSCode on Browser **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** gk b. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** ease of use when you want the IDE on web and collaborate with team, comes integrated with GitLab, GitHub and Bitbucket **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** expanding of Folders in Explorer is a bit slow, but files load faster while selecting it on explorer **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick Editing while merging changes, solving merge conflicts, reviewing changes more quickly. ### 16. Awesome - VSCode in web **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Gitpod?** It has almost all the features that vscode desktop app provides. Most helpful while reviewing/merging code. **What do you dislike about Gitpod?** The terminal is a bit slow - but that's expected since its online **What problems is Gitpod solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in peer-reviewing code changes, fixing merge conflicts, and ease of doing quick fixes. ## Gitpod Discussions - [How good is Gitpod?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-good-is-gitpod) - [Is Gitpod an IDE?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-gitpod-an-ide) - [What is the use of Gitpod?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-use-of-gitpod) - [View Gitpod pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/gitpod/reviews?open_modal_url=%2Fit%2Fproducts%2Fgitpod%2Fwishlists%3Fhost_path%3D%252Fproducts%252Fgitpod%252Freviews%26source%3Dsticky_header_pin§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-14+18%3A30%3A07+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=fa7295dc-008e-4b23-8bc9-f49b17f82923&secure%5Btoken%5D=02cba299b784f43f869b3df3e424d2072d20445ee2736ec2e7b2de6947370aa2&format=llm_user) ## Gitpod Features **Development** - Application Deployment - Development Tools - Development Environment - Language Support - Testing **Database** - Database Management - Analytics - Auto Scaling - Backup / Recovery - Storage **Infrastructure** - Networking - Virtual Machines - Security ## Top Gitpod Alternatives - [DigitalOcean](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (738 reviews) - [AWS Lambda](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lambda/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (923 reviews) - [Agentforce 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform)](https://www.g2.com/products/agentforce-360-platform-formerly-salesforce-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,780 reviews)