Open Source Google Colab Alternatives
A curated collection of the 1 best open source alternatives to Google Colab.
The best open source alternative to Google Colab is Deepnote. If that doesn't suit you, we've compiled a ranked list of other open source Google Colab alternatives to help you find a suitable replacement.
Google Colab alternatives are mainly Business Intelligence & Reporting but may also be Machine Learning Infrastructure. Browse these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Google Colab.
Open source data notebook that swaps the ipynb format for a readable YAML file and runs inside VS Code, Cursor or Windsurf.
Deepnote is a drop-in replacement for Jupyter, built around a notebook format that survives version control. The messy JSON of an ipynb file gives way to a readable YAML file, one notebook per file, carrying its integrations and settings with it, so diffs stay focused enough to review.
Compatibility is kept deliberately. Deepnote uses its own kernel built on the Jupyter kernel, so existing notebooks keep working and you can move between the two. Notebooks are assembled from blocks rather than plain code cells, and reactive execution re-runs dependent blocks whenever their inputs or data change.
The repository holds the open pieces of that system.
- Blocks package: TypeScript types and utilities for code, SQL, text, markdown, input, visualization, image and separator blocks, including Python code generation.
- Convert CLI: bidirectional conversion between the Deepnote format and Jupyter, Quarto, percent Python and Marimo, as a command line tool or a programmatic API.
- Editor extensions: published extensions bring Deepnote notebooks into VS Code, Cursor and Windsurf.
- Snapshots: a snapshot file separates outputs from source for a cleaner history, with a content hash recording which code produced each output.
- Roundtrip fidelity: notebooks from Colab, SageMaker, Kaggle or Azure ML keep their platform-specific metadata when exported back.
One npx command converts an existing notebook for opening in your editor. The open source project targets local work, while a cloud service adds team collaboration and managed compute, free for students and educators. Planned work includes running the cloud interface locally, a local AI agent and bring-your-own model keys.
