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

Project Jupyter exists to develop open-source software, open-standards, and services for interactive computing across dozens of programming languages. There's a number of vendors offering Jupyter notebooks as a managed service.

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.