Best self-hosted Software Development - IDE & Tools apps

An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.

13 open source Software Development - IDE & Tools tools you host on your own server — with full control of your data and no per-user cost.

code-server

★ 78,020

code-server runs VS Code on a server and serves it through the browser, so you code from any device with the same environment everywhere. Ideal for developing from a tablet, or centralizing your setup on a powerful homelab server.

Software Development - IDE & Tools MIT

Langfuse

★ 29,546

LLM engineering platform for model tracing, prompt management, and application evaluation. Langfuse helps teams collaboratively debug, analyze, and iterate on their LLM applications such as chatbots or AI agents.

Software Development - IDE & Tools MIT

JupyterLab

★ 15,206

Web-based environment for interactive and reproducible computing.

Software Development - IDE & Tools BSD-3-Clause

Coder

★ 13,591

Remote development machines on your own infrastructure.

Software Development - IDE & Tools AGPL-3.0

Eclipse Che

★ 7,151

Open source workspace server and cloud IDE.

Software Development - IDE & Tools EPL-1.0

RStudio Server

★ 5,016

Web browser based IDE for R.

Software Development - IDE & Tools AGPL-3.0

Judge0 CE

★ 4,258

API to compile and run source code.

Software Development - IDE & Tools GPL-3.0

Lowdefy

★ 2,982

Build internal tools, BI dashboards, admin panels, CRUD apps and workflows in minutes using YAML / JSON on an self-hosted, open-source platform. Connect to your data sources, host via Serverless, Netlify or Docker.

Software Development - IDE & Tools Apache-2.0

Azimutt

★ 2,136

Visual database exploration made for real world databases (big and messy). Explore your database schema as well as data, document them, extend them and even get analysis and guidelines.

Database ManagementSoftware Development - IDE & Tools MIT

LiveCodes

★ 1,457

Feature-rich client-side code playground for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Typescript, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP and 90+ other languages.

Software Development - IDE & Tools MIT

Atheos

★ 671

Web-based IDE framework with a small footprint and minimal requirements, continued from Codiad.

Software Development - IDE & Tools MIT

RapidForge

★ 39

Lightweight platform for building webhooks, scheduled tasks and pages. Implement your logic with Bash or Lua.

Software Development - IDE & Tools Apache-2.0

RepoFlow

Simplify package management for npm, PyPI, Docker, Go, Helm, and more. Try it for free with 10GB storage, 10GB bandwidth, 100 packages, and unlimited users in the cloud, or self-hosted for personal use only.

Software Development - IDE & Tools ⊘ Proprietary

Frequently asked questions

What are the best self-hosted Software Development - IDE & Tools tools?

Among the 13 options, the most popular include code-server, Langfuse, JupyterLab. Compare license, platform and popularity in the list below.

Is there a free open source alternative for Software Development - IDE & Tools?

Yes — all 13 tools on this page are open source and you run them on your own server, with no monthly fee.

Where can I host a Software Development - IDE & Tools app?

On a home server (homelab) or a cheap VPS from ~€4/mo. See the suggestions on this page.