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Looking for a Gitpod alternative?
Gitpod renamed itself Ona, turned to coding agents for enterprises, and has been part of OpenAI's Codex team since August 2026. If you used Gitpod to open a repository in the cloud from a link, pyrovue does that part, and installs and starts the project for you.
Side by side
What changed, and what pyrovue covers.
| What | pyrovue | Ona (formerly Gitpod) |
|---|---|---|
| What it is now | Run any public repo, or your private GitHub ones, in a box from a link | A platform for coding agents and dev environments, sold to enterprises |
| Open a repo from a link | pyrovue.com/github.com/OWNER/REPO, or paste the URL | Through Ona's environments and agents |
| A repo with no config | Detects the stack, installs it, starts it, checks the preview | Dev container configuration plus agents |
| Individual plans | Hobby free, Pro $14 a month | Ona's billing docs say new Core subscriptions are closed; Core was listed from $20 a month |
| Billed on | Box-hours | OCUs: one an hour for a 4 vCPU and 16 GB environment, one to eight per agent task |
| Ownership | Independent | Part of OpenAI: announced on 11 June 2026, closed on 10 August 2026 |
Prices and plans as published on 17 October 2026. They change, so check the vendor's own pricing page before you decide.
Moving over
What carries across.
Gitpod's habit of putting a link in front of a repository URL works the same way here: put pyrovue.com/ in front of github.com/OWNER/REPO. A .gitpod.yml isn't read, but most repos don't need a config at all; for the ones that do, the same commands go in a pyrovue.json.
If you used Gitpod as your daily editor, pyrovue is a lighter tool: a browser editor and terminal rather than a full IDE. If you used it to try projects, review pull requests or run demos, that is exactly what pyrovue is for.
From .gitpod.yml
The same commands, in pyrovue.json.
{
"setup": ["npm install"],
"start": "npm run dev",
"port": 3000
}init commands become setup, the command that serves the app becomes start, and the port you used to expose becomes port.
Questions
Asked often.
pyrovue.json when you want to be explicit.Run the repo you bookmarked and never tried.
Hobby is free and needs no card. Paste a link and your first box is up in about a minute.