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 StackBlitz if front-end engineers who will stay on Personal at $0 (unlimited public projects, 1MB uploads) while they open a first Vitejs
Best for
Gitpod A cloud env you start at a public $
StackBlitz A WebContainer editor you start at a public $
Free plan
Gitpod $0 · 3 parallel environments. Up to 4 vCPU / 16GB / 80GB
StackBlitz $0 · /month. Fully browser-based IDE. Unlimited public projects. Open and edit public GitHub repositories. Up to 1MB of file uploads per project. Community support
Lowest paid
Gitpod Ona hourly $0.12
StackBlitz Pro $18/mo, monthly only
Next step up
Gitpod Core from $20/mo
StackBlitz
Coding agent
Gitpod Session prompt card
StackBlitz
Watch out
Gitpod Product UI is Ona
StackBlitz Personal stays public projects + 1MB uploads
Last checked
Gitpod 2026-10-23 · gitpod.io/pricing
StackBlitz 2026-10-23 · stackblitz.com/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 pagefront-end engineers who will stay on Personal at $0 (unlimited public projects, 1MB uploads) while they open a first Vitejs IDE, then Pro at $18/month billed annually ($25 monthly) when they need unlimited uploads and localhost / CORS backends — not Teams $55 / $60 per member unless they need private collections for up to 10 users.
Read the StackBlitz page
