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Notebooks & data apps
13 tools compared: how each is priced, where it runs, and what to consider instead.
| Tool | Pricing model | Free tier | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dash Open-source Python (and R/Julia) framework for building production analytics web apps on top of Plotly charts. | Free tier + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Datalore JetBrains' cloud and on-premises Jupyter-compatible notebook with built-in smart coding assistance and collaboration. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| Deepnote Cloud notebook platform built for teams, with real-time collaboration, built-in AI assistance, and shared data connections. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| Evidence Open-source "BI-as-code" framework that turns SQL and Markdown files into version-controlled static reports and dashboards. | Free tier + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Google Colab Free, browser-based Jupyter notebooks from Google with on-demand GPU/TPU access and zero local setup. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| Gradio Open-source Python library for wrapping a model or function in a shareable web UI in a few lines of code. | Free tier + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Kaggle Notebooks Free, browser-based Jupyter notebooks from Kaggle with weekly GPU/TPU quotas, tied directly to its datasets and competitions. | Free | Yes | No |
| marimo Open-source reactive Python notebook stored as plain .py files, designed to fix reproducibility problems in Jupyter. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Observable JavaScript-native notebooks and static-site framework built for reactive, interactive data visualizations. | Free tier + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Posit Workbench Enterprise server for running RStudio, Jupyter, and VS Code sessions on shared infrastructure with centralized admin control. | Quote only | No | No |
| Project Jupyter Open-source notebook interface for mixing live code, output, and narrative text, the base standard most other data notebooks build on. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Quarto Open-source scientific and technical publishing system that renders code, text, and figures into papers, reports, and websites. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Streamlit Open-source Python framework for turning scripts into shareable data apps and dashboards without front-end code. | Free tier + paid | Yes | Yes |