What is Ona used for?

Ona, formerly Gitpod, runs cloud development environments and background software engineering agents that work inside your own VPC. It is a good fit for delegating routine engineering tasks to agents, moving agents off developer laptops and standardizing governed agent execution.

How much does Ona cost?

Paid plans for Ona start at $20 per month, and there is no free plan.

No. Ona is proprietary (closed-source) software. Open-source alternatives to Ona include Coder, code-server and OpenHands.

Yes. Although Ona is closed source, it can be self-hosted on your own servers, and the vendor also offers a hosted version.

What are some alternatives to Ona?

Ona competes with GitHub Codespaces, CodeSandbox and Replit. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Ona alternatives.

Ona: features, pricing and alternatives

About Ona

Ona is the successor to Gitpod, a cloud development environment provider, and it now centers on running AI software engineering agents in the cloud. The homepage describes an enterprise software factory in which tasks go in and pull requests come out, handled in the background from any device.

Automations let teams trigger agent fleets from pull requests, schedules or webhooks using repeatable workflows. Each agent gets a full cloud environment with the team's tools, network access and permissions, not just a bare sandbox. The security model highlights running in your own VPC with network control, audit trails, scoped credentials and kernel-level policy enforcement, and it can standardize how Ona, Codex and other agents are run.

Ona is a proprietary commercial product with a pricing page, a demo request flow and documentation. It supports a managed experience while allowing deployment inside a customer's cloud network.

Key features

Background agents that turn tasks into pull requests
Automations triggered by PRs, schedules or webhooks
Full cloud environments for each agent
Runs in your VPC with network control
Audit trails and scoped credentials
Kernel-level policy enforcement

Good fit for

→Delegating routine engineering tasks to agents
→Moving agents off developer laptops
→Standardizing governed agent execution

Tags: cloud-ide; ai-agents; gitpod; dev-environments; security; automation; vpc

Ona: questions and answers

What is Ona used for?: Ona, formerly Gitpod, runs cloud development environments and background software engineering agents that work inside your own VPC. It is a good fit for delegating routine engineering tasks to agents, moving agents off developer laptops and standardizing governed agent execution.
How much does Ona cost?: Paid plans for Ona start at $20 per month, and there is no free plan.
Is Ona open source?: No. Ona is proprietary (closed-source) software. Open-source alternatives to Ona include Coder, code-server and OpenHands.
Can I self-host Ona?: Yes. Although Ona is closed source, it can be self-hosted on your own servers, and the vendor also offers a hosted version.
What are some alternatives to Ona?: Ona competes with GitHub Codespaces, CodeSandbox and Replit. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Ona alternatives.