Pluto.jl
Writing a notebook is not just about writing the final document — Pluto empowers the experiments and discoveries that are essential to getting there.
Pluto.jl 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.
Pluto.jl
Deepnote
Setup
No, you must host it yourself
Fully managed (setup in minutes)
Can you self-host?
Can you self-host?
You can self-host (setup in hours)
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
Julia
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?
Unknown
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?
Unknown
Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)
UI for building charts
Reactivity
Reactivity
Full, realtime reactivity
Full, realtime reactivity
No notebook scheduling
Notebook scheduling is built in
Management
Reproducibility
Reproducibility
Execution is reproducible by default
Environments are reproducible by default
Run notebooks in containers
File-based (use Git)
Version history is built in
File-based (use Git)
Multiple editors at the same time
Comments
Comments
File-based (use GitHub)
Comment on items within a notebook
Notebook organization
Notebook organization
File-based
View notebooks in a tree, like a wiki
Licensing
License
License
Open-source (MIT)
Proprietary
Price
Price
Free
Free tier
Pay for compute
Pay-per-user