CoCalc
WebsiteYour best choice for teaching remote scientific courses.
CoCalc vs Pluto.jl:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024
Comparing two data science notebooks.
Pluto.jl
WebsiteWriting a notebook is not just about writing the final document — Pluto empowers the experiments and discoveries that are essential to getting there.
CoCalc
Pluto.jl
Setup
Fully managed (setup in minutes)
No, you must host it yourself
Can you self-host?
Can you self-host?
You can self-host (setup in hours)
You can self-host (setup in hours)
Features
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Jupyter-compatible
Not Jupyter-compatible
Programming languages
Programming languages
Jupyter languages (e.g. Python, R)
Julia
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
Connect with Jupyter libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, psycopg2)
Provided file storage
Unknown
What kind of data visualization can you do?
What kind of data visualization can you do?
Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)
Unknown
Reactivity
Reactivity
No reactivity, you decide the execution order
Full, realtime reactivity
No notebook scheduling
No notebook scheduling
Management
Reproducibility
Reproducibility
Environments are reproducible by default
Execution is reproducible by default
Version history is built in
File-based (use Git)
Multiple editors at the same time
File-based (use Git)
Comments
Comments
No support for comments
File-based (use GitHub)
Notebook organization
Notebook organization
View notebooks in a list
File-based
Licensing
License
License
Open-source (GNU AGPLv3)
Open-source (MIT)
Price
Price
Free tier
Pay for compute
Free