Coder

Coder belongs in the catalog because it solves a real platform problem for engineering organizations moving beyond local-machine sprawl and improvised remote development. The official product is not just browser IDE access. It is a platform for standardized development workspaces, policy controls, templates, and infrastructure-level governance that still preserves a developer-first workflow.

That matters more in the AI era because teams increasingly need secure, reproducible environments for both humans and coding agents. Coder’s open-source Community edition keeps it credible for technical evaluation, while Premium is where the enterprise controls, support, and multi-org management story becomes commercially meaningful. The key buying question is not whether Coder can open an editor in the cloud. It is whether your team benefits enough from centralized developer infrastructure to justify adopting it as a platform layer.