The Gitpod alternative that keeps your keys°
Looking for a Gitpod alternative? Here is the honest comparison for a builder who wants to own their agent — keys, code, and compute.
Where jurniti is different
- Always-on agent tenants with harness installs instead of ephemeral developer workspaces.
- Firecracker product story aimed at production agents holding keys.
- Flat monthly agent SKUs rather than workspace-hour economics.
| jurniti | Gitpod | |
|---|---|---|
| Isolation | Per-tenant Firecracker microVM (KVM hardware boundary); 1 vCPU = 1 physical core. | Cloud workspace isolation (Gitpod has described VM-level isolation on newer runners). Still a CDE category, not a multi-harness agent platform. |
| Pricing | Flat $25–$99/mo, no metered surprises. | Gitpod Classic pay-as-you-go sunset Oct 15, 2025 per gitpod-io/gitpod README; current free/Core/Enterprise packaging lives under the Ona/Gitpod product evolution — re-verify seats on ona.com/gitpod.io before quoting a fixed monthly price. Verified 2026-07-28 from public README + product posts. |
| Model keys | BYOK inside your VM — model traffic never traverses jurniti. | CDE secret management for human sessions. Not an always-on agent BYOK product. |
Where Gitpod is strong
- Mature cloud development environment workflows for human coding.
- Strong fit for standardized team devcontainers and onboarding.
- Enterprise packaging for org-wide CDE rollout.
When to pick one — or both
Pick Gitpod/Ona when the user is a human developer who needs a standardized cloud IDE. Pick jurniti when the user is an agent that must stay running with hardware isolation.
Pick jurniti when your agent holds production credentials, runs code an LLM returned, and you want a real per-tenant hardware boundary with your keys inside your VM — at a flat monthly price.
Run Claude Code on a real Firecracker microVM. Provision in ~3 minutes after payment. If it is not worth it within 30 days, email us and we refund you.
jurniti vs Gitpod — questions
For cloud IDEs, no. For always-on Claude Code / OpenClaw microVMs, yes — different category that sometimes appears in the same 'remote dev' shopping tab.
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Competitor facts are sourced and re-verified (last checked 2026-07-28). Gitpod is a trademark of its owner, named here only for comparison.