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CoCalc vs Apache Zeppelin: catalog facts
CoCalc	Apache Zeppelin
Freemium Hosted plans and licences are offered; see the pricing page for current terms.	Free Free and open source from the Apache Software Foundation.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Notebooks, terminals, files and documents in one shared project Live collaborative editing with version history and recovery	Supports SQL, Scala, Python, R and Spark in one notebook Connects to any JDBC data source
Main use is through a hosted service that needs an account Claude Code support is an experimental preview	Needs to be installed and run as a server Setup for clusters and multiple users takes some configuration
Web application, Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
Account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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