compare.json

[
  {
    "name": "jupyter",
    "title": "Online Jupyter Notebooks",
    "link": "/features/jupyter-notebook",
    "products": [
      { "key": "cocalc", "name": "CoCalc", "link": "https://cocalc.com" },
      {
        "key": "mybinder",
        "name": "MyBinder",
        "link": "https://mybinder.org/"
      },
      {
        "key": "colab",
        "name": "Colab",
        "link": "https://colab.research.google.com/"
      },
      { "key": "datalore", "name": "Datalore", "link": "https://datalore.io" },
      {
        "key": "deepnote",
        "name": "Deepnote",
        "link": "https://www.deepnote.com/"
      }
    ],
    "rows": [
      {
        "feature": "Programming languages",
        "cocalc": "Python, Sage, R, Octave, and many more",
        "mybinder": "Python, R, etc. and customizable",
        "colab": "Python 3",
        "datalore": "Python 3",
        "deepnote": "Python 3, Quip"
      },
      {
        "feature": "IPython Widgets",
        "cocalc": true,
        "mybinder": true,
        "colab": true,
        "datalore": true,
        "deepnote": true
      },
      {
        "feature": "File sharing between users",
        "cocalc": true,
        "mybinder": false,
        "colab": true,
        "datalore": true,
        "deepnote": true
      },
      {
        "feature": "Realtime collaboration: multiple people use the same notebook together",
        "cocalc": true,
        "colab": {
          "type": false,
          "note": "Colab used to have realtime sync, but it ended in 2017, when Google terminated their realtime API product.",
          "link": "https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2017/11/committed-to-storage-apis-retiring.html"
        },
        "mybinder": "Possible via experimental extension to JupyterLab.",
        "datalore": true,
        "deepnote": true
      },
      {
        "feature": "Persistence",
        "cocalc": true,
        "mybinder": false,
        "colab": "Notebook persists, but data and files do not.",
        "datalore": true,
        "deepnote": true
      },
      {
        "feature": "Large preinstalled software environment",
        "cocalc": {
          "type": true,
          "note": "1500+ Python libraries preinstalled; extensive R, Julia, Octave, and other packages.",
          "link": "https://cocalc.com/software/python"
        },
        "mybinder": "Limited",
        "deepnote": {
          "type": true,
          "note": "27 featured Python packages",
          "link": "https://docs.deepnote.com/environment/pre-installed-packages"
        },
        "datalore": "Python3, SQL, Scala, R, and Kotlin kernels; large pre-installed env with top data science packages"
      },
      {
        "feature": "Paid Plans",
        "cocalc": {
          "type": true,
          "note": " Basic - $2 person/month; Pro - scales linearly depending on the resources you need; Pay as you go access to all VM's that Google Cloud offers with uniquely powerful spot instance price discovery",
          "link": "https://cocalc.com/store"
        },
        "mybinder": { "type": false, "note": "Free only" },
        "colab": {
          "type": true,
          "note": "Pro - $9.99 person/month; Pro+ - $49.99 person/month",
          "link": "https://colab.research.google.com/signup/pricing"
        },
        "datalore": {
          "type": true,
          "note": "Pro - $19.90 person/month; Enterprise - $125 person/month",
          "link": "https://www.jetbrains.com/datalore/enterprise/"
        },
        "deepnote": {
          "type": true,
          "note": "Pro - $12 person/month; Enterprise - $99 person / month; plus an additional hourly fee for more powerful compute resources at about 7x the market rate",
          "link": "https://deepnote.com/pricing"
        }
      },
      {
        "feature": "Disk space",
        "cocalc": "3GB/project for free, and can buy up to 65TB disks via compute servers",
        "mybinder": "Ephemeral",
        "colab": "Uses your Google Drive storage",
        "datalore": "Limit of two simultaneously running notebooks",
        "deepnote": "5GB for free"
      },
      {
        "feature": "Memory",
        "cocalc": "1GB/project for free, and can buy TB's of RAM via compute servers",
        "datalore": "Limit of two simultaneously running notebooks",
        "deepnote": "several GB for free"
      },
      {
        "feature": "Idle timeout",
        "cocalc": "30 minutes for free; pay for more",
        "deepnote": "15 minutes for free; pay for more"
      },
      {
        "feature": "Network access",
        "cocalc": "Only for non-free projects; also compute servers provide network access",
        "colab": true,
        "datalore": true,
        "mybinder": true,
        "deepnote": true
      },
      {
        "feature": "Public Google-indexed searchable publishing of files",
        "cocalc": "Paid",
        "mybinder": false,
        "datalore": true,
        "deepnote": true
      },
      {
        "feature": "Self hosting",
        "cocalc": {
          "note": "Docker image, Kubernetes Helm charts, on Prem compute servers",
          "type": true,
          "link": "https://doc.cocalc.com/on-premises.html"
        },
        "mybinder": true,
        "colab": {
          "note": "Docker image local runtimes",
          "type": true,
          "link": "https://research.google.com/colaboratory/local-runtimes.html"
        },
        "datalore": {
          "type": true,
          "link": "https://www.jetbrains.com/datalore/enterprise/"
        },
        "deepnote": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "Open source",
        "cocalc": {
          "type": false,
          "note": "Partial (noncommercial MS-RSL). Commercial license available.",
          "link": "https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc"
        },
        "mybinder": true,
        "colab": {
          "type": false,
          "note": "Some components are open",
          "link": "https://github.com/googlecolab"
        },
        "datalore": false,
        "deepnote": {
          "type": false,
          "note": "Some of their modifications to upstreams projects are open source",
          "link": "https://github.com/deepnote"
        }
      },
      {
        "feature": "GPUs",
        "cocalc": {
          "type": true,
          "note": "YES -- pay as you go via compute servers and on prem",
          "link": "https://doc.cocalc.com/compute_server.html"
        },
        "mybinder": "Only when self hosted",
        "colab": "Yes, for free and paid.",
        "datalore": "Datalore Professional and when self-hosted",
        "deepnote": true
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "latex",
    "title": "Online LaTeX Editors",
    "link": "/features/latex-editor",
    "products": [
      { "key": "cocalc", "name": "CoCalc", "link": "https://cocalc.com" },
      {
        "key": "overleaf",
        "name": "Overleaf",
        "link": "https://www.overleaf.com/"
      },
      {
        "key": "authorea",
        "name": "Authorea",
        "link": "https://www.authorea.com/"
      },
      {
        "key": "papeeria",
        "name": "Papeeria",
        "link": "https://papeeria.com/"
      }
    ],
    "rows": [
      {
        "feature": "Realtime collaboration and sync",
        "cocalc": true,
        "overleaf": "Limited number of collaborators",
        "authorea": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "PDFLaTeX rendering engine",
        "cocalc": true,
        "overleaf": true,
        "authorea": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "XeLaTeX rendering engine",
        "cocalc": true,
        "overleaf": true,
        "authorea": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "LuaTeX rendering engine",
        "cocalc": true,
        "overleaf": true,
        "authorea": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "Run Python, R and other scripts as part of compilation",
        "cocalc": {
          "type": true,
          "note": "CoCalc is particularly good at this."
        },
        "overleaf": { "type": true, "note": "But limited." },
        "authorea": false,
        "papeeria": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "R/Knitr",
        "cocalc": true,
        "overleaf": "Limited - very few packages, limited syntax, no caching, slow",
        "authorea": false,
        "papeeria": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "SageTex",
        "cocalc": true,
        "overleaf": false,
        "authorea": false,
        "papeeria": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "PythonTex",
        "cocalc": true,
        "overleaf": false,
        "authorea": false,
        "papeeria": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "Upload files",
        "cocalc": true,
        "overleaf": true,
        "authorea": true,
        "papeeria": true
      },
      {
        "feature": "Forward and inverse search",
        "cocalc": true,
        "overleaf": true,
        "authorea": null,
        "papeeria": true
      },
      {
        "feature": "Multifile support",
        "cocalc": true,
        "overleaf": true,
        "authorea": null,
        "papeeria": true
      },
      {
        "feature": "WYSIWYG",
        "cocalc": {
          "type": true,
          "note": "This is WYSIWYG collaborative markdown editor, with LaTeX math support."
        },
        "overleaf": {
          "type": true,
          "note": "This is only a partial WYSIWYG-like mode."
        },
        "authorea": true,
        "papeeria": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "Equation editor",
        "cocalc": false,
        "overleaf": false,
        "authorea": true,
        "papeeria": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "AI Formula Assistant",
        "cocalc": {
          "type": true,
          "note": "Generate LaTeX formulas from natural language descriptions using AI",
          "link": "https://cocalc.com/features/latex-editor#a-ai-formula"
        },
        "overleaf": {
          "type": true,
          "note": "AI Assist add-on generates equations from prompts or images (paid feature with limited free uses)",
          "link": "https://www.overleaf.com/learn/how-to/AI_Assist"
        },
        "authorea": false,
        "papeeria": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "Bibliography",
        "cocalc": {
          "type": true,
          "note": "Only BibTex via LaTeX (nothing sophisticated)"
        },
        "overleaf": true,
        "authorea": true,
        "papeeria": { "type": true, "note": "Limited" }
      },
      {
        "feature": "Preloaded journal templates",
        "cocalc": {
          "type": false,
          "note": "However, you can easily upload a template from a journal."
        },
        "overleaf": true,
        "authorea": true,
        "papeeria": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "Self hosting",
        "cocalc": true,
        "overleaf": true,
        "authorea": false,
        "papeeria": false
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "terminal",
    "title": "Online Linux Terminal",
    "link": "/features/terminal",
    "products": [
      { "key": "cocalc", "name": "CoCalc", "link": "https://cocalc.com" },
      {
        "key": "cloud",
        "name": "GCE/AWS/Azure Clouds"
      },
      {
        "key": "lxd",
        "name": "LXD.org",
        "link": "https://linuxcontainers.org/"
      },
      {
        "key": "webminal",
        "name": "Webminal",
        "link": "https://www.webminal.org/"
      }
    ],
    "rows": [
      {
        "feature": "Free access for unlimited time",
        "cocalc": true,
        "cloud": { "type": false, "note": "Limited trial with credit card" },
        "lxd": true,
        "webminal": true
      },
      {
        "feature": "Full Linux",
        "cocalc": {
          "type": true,
          "note": "Compute servers provide full root access to a dedicated virtual machine and ability to run any Docker containers.",
          "link": "https://doc.cocalc.com/compute_server.html"
        },
        "cloud": true,
        "lxd": true
      },
      {
        "feature": "Count of of pre-installed packages, by running 'apt list --installed | wc -l' or 'rpm -qa | wc -l'",
        "cocalc": "~ 9500",
        "cloud": null,
        "lxd": "~ 200",
        "webminal": "~ 700"
      },
      {
        "feature": "Copy/paste",
        "cocalc": true,
        "cloud": true,
        "lxd": true
      },
      {
        "feature": "Periodic backups of your data",
        "cocalc": true,
        "cloud": true,
        "lxd": false,
        "webminal": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "Persistence of your data",
        "cocalc": true,
        "cloud": true,
        "lxd": false
      },
      {
        "feature": "Ease of setup and configuration",
        "cocalc": "Easy",
        "cloud": "Hard",
        "lxd": "Very Easy",
        "webminal": "Medium"
      },
      {
        "feature": "Root access",
        "cocalc": true,
        "cloud": true,
        "lxd": true,
        "webminal": { "note": "Limited" }
      }
    ]
  }
]