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Code Ocean vs Spot by Flexera comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 19, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Code Ocean
Ranking in Compute Service
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Spot by Flexera
Ranking in Compute Service
9th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (20th), Server Virtualization Software (14th), Cloud Operations Analytics (1st), Cloud Analytics (2nd), Containers as a Service (CaaS) (3rd), Cloud Cost Management (5th)
 

Featured Reviews

KS
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Collaborative research workflows have become fully reproducible and streamline peer reviews
Code Ocean has resulted in an overall improvement in collaboration reliability in my organization, helping us improve reproducibility and audit requirements, which are essential for some of our research-heavy or regulated workflows or tasks, and has also shortened review cycles and increased confidence in the shared results. Our review cycles have been reduced by up to 20%, and while some improvements cannot be measured in metrics, the overall reproducibility and audit requirements have also been improved, allowing us to spend less time debugging environment issues and more time focusing on analysis and results. Overall, there is improvement in our return on investment. We don't have to go through all the long review cycles, and most of our extra efforts involved in managing access and improving environment consistency have been reduced, which has removed excess efforts that we needed to put in and allowed us to spend less time debugging environment issues.
KS
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Intelligent autoscaling has cut compute costs and now manages ephemeral workloads efficiently
I think overall Spot is quite good. The UI is powerful, but it can feel a bit dense for some new users. More guided onboarding would help teams adopt advanced features faster, and deeper insights into Kubernetes resource usage would be beneficial. Overall, it is a really good platform that is quite mature and stable. I chose a rating of nine because it may sometimes be a bit overwhelming for newcomers, and there are also a few areas in which the EKS Kubernetes level granularity is a little missing. Overall, I think Spot is a really good and stable tool.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Code Ocean is an excellent platform for collaborative and reproducible computing, particularly if your work involves sharing code, data, and results in a reliable and auditable way."
"The solution helps us to manage and scale automatically whenever there is a limit to the increase in the application workflow."
"Spot has positively impacted our organization by automating cloud resource management, which has significantly cut costs and improved efficiency."
"My compute costs have reduced, capacity and production output have increased, and my overhead for maintaining custom scripts or doing some of the tasks manually has been saved."
"Cost saving is the main benefit, and the manual effort required for reviewing and purchasing savings plans and other RIs is something we do not have to manage manually now, as we get automatic suggestions from Spot."
"The solution offers both block access and file access, making it a nice solution for customers."
 

Cons

"There is not much to dislike about Code Ocean, but I think the compute resources can sometimes be limited for very large or long-running workloads, and more flexible options or scaling compute may be beneficial."
"There are no particular areas for improvement I can identify."
"The solution doesn't have support from OCI, and it should start working to onboard OCI."
"I have not seen a return on investment yet."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
18%
Computer Software Company
14%
Healthcare Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
6%
 

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Code Ocean?
There is not much to dislike about Code Ocean, but I think the compute resources can sometimes be limited for very large or long-running workloads, and more flexible options or scaling compute may ...
What is your primary use case for Code Ocean?
On a day-to-day basis, I use Code Ocean to run, validate, and share code in a fully reproducible environment, mostly when working with data analysis and research-oriented code, where results need t...
What advice do you have for others considering Code Ocean?
I would highly recommend Code Ocean, as it is not something optional. Once you start using it, you will love it. Code Ocean is an excellent platform for collaborative and reproducible computing, pa...
What do you like most about Spot Ocean?
The solution helps us to manage and scale automatically whenever there is a limit to the increase in the application workflow.
What needs improvement with Spot Ocean?
I think overall Spot is quite good. The UI is powerful, but it can feel a bit dense for some new users. More guided onboarding would help teams adopt advanced features faster, and deeper insights i...
What is your primary use case for Spot Ocean?
My primary use case for Spot revolves around managing and optimizing my compute infrastructure across AWS, mainly EC2 and EKS on a daily basis, such as monitoring the workloads and ensuring that Ku...
 

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Also Known As

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Spot Ocean, Spot Elastigroup, Spot Eco
 

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