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 Tuple if engineering teams who will use the 14-day trial, then stay on $30/user/month while they share a first desktop — not a custom
Best for
Gitpod A cloud env you start at a public $
Tuple A pairing call you start at a public $
Free plan
Gitpod $0 · 3 parallel environments. Up to 4 vCPU / 16GB / 80GB
Tuple No free plan
Lowest paid
Gitpod Ona hourly $0.12
Tuple Engineering teams $30/user/mo
Next step up
Gitpod Core from $20/mo
Tuple
Coding agent
Gitpod Session prompt card
Tuple
Watch out
Gitpod Product UI is Ona
Tuple There is no permanent $0 seat
Last checked
Gitpod 2026-10-23 · gitpod.io/pricing
Tuple 2026-10-23 · tuple.app/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 pageengineering teams who will use the 14-day trial, then stay on $30/user/month while they share a first desktop — not a custom invoice first unless they need PO / SSO at scale, and not a forever-free seat (there isn’t one except donated OSS licenses).
Read the Tuple page
