Our take
Pick Coder if platform teams who will stay on Community $0 (unlimited self-hosted workspaces, 5 agents, GitHub/Discord support) while they Create workspace from a first template, then talk to sales for Premium when they need HA, workspace proxies, multi-org RBAC, and SLA support. Pick NetBird if infra teams who will stay on Cloud Free at €0 (5 users, 100 machines) or the $0 self-host binary while they add a first
Best for
Coder Workspaces you start at $0
NetBird Peers you start at €0
Free plan
Coder $0 · (“Free”). Open source. Unlimited self-hosted workspaces on infrastructure you own. Environments as code. Run Claude Code / Codex / Cursor inside ephemeral workspaces. VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Jupyter. Includes AI Governance. Community support on GitHub and Discord. FAQ: 5-agent cap on Community and Premium
NetBird $0 · bSD-3. You run the management + signal + TURN stack. Confirmed by the repo license. Hosting is your bill
Lowest paid
Coder Not published by the vendor
NetBird Cloud Team €6/user/mo
Next step up
Coder
NetBird Cloud Business €12
Coding agent
Coder Agents
NetBird
Runs where
Coder Local or hosted
NetBird Local; you host it
Watch out
Coder Community is $0 and a 5-agent cap
NetBird Cloud Free is 5 users and 100 machines
Last checked
Coder 2026-10-22 · coder.com/pricing
NetBird 2026-10-23 · netbird.io/pricing
platform teams who will stay on Community $0 (unlimited self-hosted workspaces, 5 agents, GitHub/Discord support) while they Create workspace from a first template, then talk to sales for Premium when they need HA, workspace proxies, multi-org RBAC, and SLA support.
Read the Coder pageinfra teams who will stay on Cloud Free at €0 (5 users, 100 machines) or the $0 self-host binary while they add a first peer, then buy Team at €6/user/month when they need unlimited users, enterprise IdP, and SCIM.
Read the NetBird page