Mode Notebooks
Native R & Python Notebooks. From SQL, explore your analysis using R or Python Notebooks.
Mode Notebooks vs Deepnote:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024
Comparing two data science notebooks.
Deepnote
Deepnote is a new kind of data notebook that’s built for collaboration — Jupyter compatible, works magically in the cloud, and sharing is as easy as sending a link.
Mode Notebooks
Deepnote
Setup
Fully managed (setup in minutes)
Fully managed (setup in minutes)
Can you self-host?
Can you self-host?
No, you must use a managed offering
No, you must use a managed offering
Features
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Not Jupyter-compatible
Jupyter-compatible
Programming languages
Programming languages
SQL
R
Python
Jupyter languages (e.g. Python, R)
SQL
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
Connect to databases (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, etc.)
Connect to data warehouses (Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, etc.)
Connect with Jupyter libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, psycopg2)
Connect to data warehouses (AWS, GCP, etc.)
Connect to databases (Postgres, MongoDB, etc.)
Provided file storage
What kind of data visualization can you do?
What kind of data visualization can you do?
UI for building charts
Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)
UI for building charts
Reactivity
Reactivity
No reactivity, you decide the execution order
Full, realtime reactivity
Notebook scheduling is built in
Notebook scheduling is built in
Management
Reproducibility
Reproducibility
Environments are reproducible by default
Environments are reproducible by default
Run notebooks in containers
No version history
Version history is built in
Multiple editors, one at a time (asynchronous)
Multiple editors at the same time
Comments
Comments
No support for comments
Comment on items within a notebook
Notebook organization
Notebook organization
View notebooks in a list
View notebooks in a tree, like a wiki
Licensing
License
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price
Price
Unknown
Free tier
Pay for compute
Pay-per-user