Deepnote
Ranked 5 of 7 computational notebooks by recommenders
Recommended as a polished, Apache 2 licensed data notebook with a hosted option. Critics call its claim to succeed Jupyter overblown.
Recommended as a polished, Apache 2 licensed data notebook with a hosted option. Critics call its claim to succeed Jupyter overblown.
28 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 16
- approval share
- 43%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Useful product that deserves attention
“They've built something genuinely useful and interesting but it's going go get a lot less attention than it deserves”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” “What they built looks great and I don’t disagree with their take in substance”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” “I really liked Deepnote the product when I last used it”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” Better Jupyter-style notebook interface
“We use the hosted version at my previous company to replace self-hosted Jupyter notebooks, and it's pretty great.”
Comment from 2 May 2026 in “Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks” “has had the single best jupyter interface for years now”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” Open source under Apache 2
“We worked hard to execute on our vision of a data notebook and I'm glad we finally got a chance to open source it.”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” “it's Apache 2 licensed, so actually open source and not just pretending for the cred”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” Reactive, readable format with clean diffs
“There was interesting stuff here: the human readable format, auto publication.”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” “Its reactivity is a very cool feature once used to”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” “there isn't random JSON blobs coming in PR diffs”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Overclaims being Jupyter's successor
“Self-declaring themselves to be the successor to a project that's still alive and that they seemingly have absolutely no legitimate claim to”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” “This whole post stinks of "we're losing to Jupyter so let's throw up a ridiculous Hail Mary"”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” “Bold and ridiculous to claim your random product is "the successor" of a well-known project”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” - Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source”
- Comment from 5 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source”
- Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source”
Launch post seems sloppy or LLM-written
“Seeing such pivotal announcement be poorly vetted slop doesn't really inspire confidence in the quality of their product.”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” “The note sounds as written by some manager/marketing guy that has 20 years to touch a line of code”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” “Merely retroactively changing the post doesn't inspire confidence”
Comment from 5 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” - Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source”
- Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source”
Fears open-sourcing precedes shutdown
“opensourcing it basically in today's world is a precursor to we're sunsetting it”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source” “it's very likely they will close the source to continue operating”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source”
Other computational notebooks people recommend
The four most recommended other computational notebooks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupyter Notebook | 67 | 39 | 63% | 12 | — | — |
| marimo | 53 | 7 | 88% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Pluto.jl | 21 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | Approved |
| Google Colab | 18 | 7 | 72% | 9 | — | Approved |
| DeepnoteThis page | 12 | 16 | 43% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
30 of the 31 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“We use the hosted version at my previous company to replace self-hosted Jupyter notebooks, and it's pretty great.”
“Merely retroactively changing the post doesn't inspire confidence”
“shit on an open source project but also declare your product a”
“there isn't random JSON blobs coming in PR diffs”
“it's not actually a successor”
“it’s gross and I’ll have no part of it”
“Its reactivity is a very cool feature once used to”
“Seeing such pivotal announcement be poorly vetted slop doesn't really inspire confidence in the quality of their product.”
“opensourcing it basically in today's world is a precursor to we're sunsetting it”
“Looks like a scummy ad for some subpar aislop product?”
“If it was that interesting and useful, more people would have likely paid for the original offering.”
“What they built looks great and I don’t disagree with their take in substance”
“This whole post stinks of "we're losing to Jupyter so let's throw up a ridiculous Hail Mary"”
“it's very likely they will close the source to continue operating”
“I really liked Deepnote the product when I last used it”
“their claim of being successor to Jupyter is definitely hyperbole”
“Self-declaring themselves to be the successor to a project that's still alive and that they seemingly have absolutely no legitimate claim to”
“The note sounds as written by some manager/marketing guy that has 20 years to touch a line of code”
“The depth of integration matters.”
“We worked hard to execute on our vision of a data notebook and I'm glad we finally got a chance to open source it.”
“thinking something is off and I do not need it”
“Bold and ridiculous to claim your random product is "the successor" of a well-known project”
“it’s what happens when people use LLMs to write their posts”
“This article is largely empty marketing.”
“This wording just misses the mark and sounds super tone deaf”
“They've built something genuinely useful and interesting but it's going go get a lot less attention than it deserves”
“it's Apache 2 licensed, so actually open source and not just pretending for the cred”
“has had the single best jupyter interface for years now”
“The hubris of this self declared successor.”
“There was interesting stuff here: the human readable format, auto publication.”
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