Jupyter Notebook vs JupyterHub:
a side-by-side comparison for 2026

Jupyter Notebook (formerly IPython Notebook) is the classic web-based interactive computing environment for creating notebook documents. It provides a simple, streamlined interface focused on a single document workflow.

JupyterHub is a multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks, designed to serve notebooks to classes, teams, and organizations. It manages authentication and spawns individual notebook servers for each user.