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Garden vs Telepresence: catalog facts
Garden	Telepresence
Freemium The CLI is open source; Garden Cloud is a separate hosted service with additional…	Free Free and open source.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Command line
One configuration for development, testing and CI environments Works with Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi and local scripts	Skips the build, push and deploy cycle for each code change Works with local editors, debuggers and profilers
Configuration model takes time to learn Some features, such as team caching, rely on Garden Cloud	Needs components installed in the cluster Requires access to a running remote cluster
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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