Best Coding Playgrounds in 2026
Updated
136 coding playgrounds ranked on what their makers publish — plans and prices, free tiers, platforms and the facts on their own pages.
136ranked
13free plans on this page
$1/molowest paid tier
4 Oct 2026last checked
| # | Platform | Score | Why | From | Free plan | Paid from | Real-time collaboration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Vocareum | 7.0 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $10/mo | No | — | — | View |
| 27 |  Theia IDE | 6.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 28 |  Scratch | 6.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $2.92/mo | Yes | — | — | View |
| 29 | OneCompiler | 6.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | — | View |
| 30 |  ZYVA Cloud IDE | 6.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $10/mo | Yes | $10/mo | Yes | View |
| 31 |  Codeground AI | 6.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $9.99/mo | Yes | $9.99/mo | Yes | View |
| 32 | Arduino Cloud Editor | 6.7 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $1.67/mo | Yes | — | Yes | View |
| 33 |  MATLAB Grader | 6.7 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 34 |  YaliCode | 6.7 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $19/mo | Yes | $19/mo | Yes | View |
| 35 | Nextjournal | 6.5 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $299/mo | Yes | $299/mo | — | View |
| 36 |  Striqr | 6.5 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $1/mo | Yes | $5/mo | Yes | View |
| 37 | CodeHS | 6.5 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | $99/mo | — | View |
| 38 | AWS Cloud9 | 6.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | — | View |
| 39 | Compiler Explorer | 6.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | — | View |
| 40 |  Wolfram Cloud | 6.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | — | View |
| 41 |  Pickcode | 6.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | Yes | View |
| 42 |  PaizaCloud Cloud IDE | 6.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $9.80/mo | No | $9.80/mo | — | View |
| 43 | CoderPad | 6.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $6.67/mo | No | $80/mo | — | View |
| 44 |  JSFiddle | 6.3 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | €8/mo | Yes | — | — | View |
| 45 |  Code.org App Lab | 6.3 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | — | View |
| 46 |  Go Playground | 6.3 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | No | View |
| 47 | Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces | 6.2 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | — | View |
| 48 | JupyterHub | 6.2 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | — | View |
| 49 | Code.org Web Lab | 6.2 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | — | View |
| 50 |  Tencent Cloud Cloud Studio | 6.2 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | Yes | View |
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