Cloud Notebooks
Cloud Notebook Platforms
- Google Colab
- Free tier with GPU/TPU access
- Premium with better GPUs, even longer runtimes
- Kaggle Notebooks
- Free GPU/TPU access
- Integrated with Kaggle datasets and competitions
- Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab
- Free tier with 15GB storage and GPU access
- No AWS account required
- Databricks Community Edition
- Paperspace
- Acquired by DigitalOcean
- Saturn Cloud
- Free tier
- Dask integration for distributed computing
- Deepnote
- Collaborative notebooks with real-time editing
- Free tier with basic compute
- Hex
- Data apps from notebooks
- Free community tier
- Observable
- JavaScript-based notebooks
- Strong visualization capabilities
Less well maintained
- Notebooker
- JupyterHub alternative
Comparison Factors
- Cost Structure: Free tier limitations, pay-as-you-go vs. subscription
- Hardware Access: GPU/TPU availability and performance tiers
- Collaboration: Real-time editing, sharing, version control
- Integration: Pre-installed libraries, data source connections
- Persistence: Runtime limitations, idle shutdown policies
- Storage: Amount of free storage, data persistence between sessions
Blog Posts
- Scaling Jupyter Notebooks Across the World with AWS and Papermill
- Installing JupyterHub
- Automating Jupyter Notebooks with Papermill and Crontab
- The Five Ways to Schedule Jupyter Notebooks