Our take
Pick Gitpod if engineers who will stay on Free (3 parallel envs) while they open a first Ona session, then Core from $20/month (up to 100 members, unlimited parallel on the sunset story) when they need the paid org tile — not hourly Large $0.46 unless they size a session up. Pick OrbStack if mac developers who will stay on Free at $0 for personal containers while they open a first nextbigthing group, then Pro at
Best for
Gitpod A cloud env you start at a public $
OrbStack A local container window you start at a public $
Free plan
Gitpod $0 · 3 parallel environments. Up to 4 vCPU / 16GB / 80GB
OrbStack $0 · card: personal, non-commercial use. Run containers, run Linux machines, community support. No card to try
Lowest paid
Gitpod Ona hourly $0.12
OrbStack Pro $8/user/mo yearly
Next step up
Gitpod Core from $20/mo
OrbStack
Coding agent
Gitpod Session prompt card
OrbStack
Watch out
Gitpod Product UI is Ona
OrbStack Free is personal / non-commercial
Last checked
Gitpod 2026-10-23 · gitpod.io/pricing
OrbStack 2026-10-23 · orbstack.dev/pricing
engineers who will stay on Free (3 parallel envs) while they open a first Ona session, then Core from $20/month (up to 100 members, unlimited parallel on the sunset story) when they need the paid org tile — not hourly Large $0.46 unless they size a session up.
Read the Gitpod pagemac developers who will stay on Free at $0 for personal containers while they open a first nextbigthing group, then Pro at $8/user/month or $96/year when the work is commercial — not Enterprise first unless they need a custom quote.
Read the OrbStack page
