# What are the best alternatives to JuliaBox?

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**Created:** [April 8, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246 "2020-04-08T21:31:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![aerdely](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aerdely/32/37506_2.png) [@aerdely](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aerdely)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/1 "2020-04-08T21:31:58Z")

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Since **JuliaBox** sunset will take place on May 31st 😢 what are the best options to run **Julia** in the cloud for academic users? I don’t mind to pay a reasonable fee. Thank you in advance.

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**Author:** ![Oscar\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oscar_smith/32/25343_2.png) [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/2 "2020-04-08T21:33:09Z")

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If you have institutional support, you can get a server running a jupyter kernel.

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**Author:** ![aerdely](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aerdely/32/37506_2.png) [@aerdely](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aerdely)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/3 "2020-04-08T21:34:31Z")

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I do not have institutional support. Any alternatives?

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**Author:** ![ArchieCall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/archiecall/32/206_2.png) [@ArchieCall](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ArchieCall)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/4 "2020-04-08T22:11:55Z")

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repl.it

Not real fast but good in a learning environment.

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/5 "2020-04-08T22:27:54Z")

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[https://mybinder.org/](https://mybinder.org/) supports Julia, but the machines are not very beefy. It is the only free option I’m aware of.

[GitHub Codespaces using Visual Studio or browser](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-online/) is nice and works with Julia (after some config). You’ll get the VS Code UI with that and can use the Julia extension for it.

I believe [https://nextjournal.com/](https://nextjournal.com/) and [https://codeocean.com/](https://codeocean.com/) are also options.

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**Author:** ![jling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jling/32/212909_2.png) [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/6 "2020-04-08T22:35:28Z")

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> [@Julia on Google Colab: Free GPU-Accelerated Shareable Notebooks](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-on-google-colab-free-gpu-accelerated-shareable-notebooks/15319):
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> (Disclosure: While I work for Google, this is not an official Google product or announcement.) tl;dr: For Julia on Colab with GPUs, first open [this notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1zAkadxc_iJE_oj-TOdwHpfLU2oaNHJOS) and run the cell (takes ~15-20 minutes), then open [this one](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1AYj_TIE_zhy4LlY8Zc8PKBrkJkFcOrlf) to start using Julia. [Screenshot%20from%202018-09-21%2015-57-02] Recently, @denizyuret brought up on Slack that it would be nice if Google Colab supported Julia, especially for GPUs. I can’t promise anything about official or built-in support, but it turns out it’s possible to g…

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**Author:** ![j\_verzani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/j_verzani/32/8551_2.png) [@j\_verzani](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/j_verzani)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/7 "2020-04-08T22:59:21Z")

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Cocalc is an alternative with a very slow free option and modest pay option.

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 6:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/8 "2020-04-09T06:31:46Z")

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You could ask local IT to set up a Jupyter server. If you don’t have a large number of users, a commodity box will be sufficient. The setup is quite simple.

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**Author:** ![xiaodai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/xiaodai/32/15937_2.png) [@xiaodai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaodai)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 7:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/9 "2020-04-09T07:25:57Z")

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Check this list [https://github.com/xiaodaigh/awesome-data-science-notebook-engines](https://github.com/xiaodaigh/awesome-data-science-notebook-engines)

I think cocalc and NextJournal will work.

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**Author:** ![William\_Stein](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/william_stein/32/14273_2.png) [@William\_Stein](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/William_Stein)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/10 "2020-04-23T01:35:13Z")

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You are right, [https://CoCalc.com](https://CoCalc.com) fully supports Julia. We provide Jupyter notebooks with Julia 1.0, 1.3.1 and 1.4 kernels, and continue to ugrade and maintain our Julia support since it is in high demand by an increasing number of CoCalc users. We also provide command line terminal Julia, syntax highlighting and splitting for editing .jl files, X11 graphics, and a 1-click JupyteLab server. CoCalc is sufficiently open source that you can run your own server (see [GitHub - sagemathinc/cocalc-docker: Docker setup for running CoCalc as downloadable software on your own computer](https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc-docker)), but we currently don’t have Dockerfile recipes that include Julia pre-installed (pull requests welcome).

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**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/11 "2020-04-23T02:27:18Z")

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> [@William\_Stein](#):
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> Dockerfile recipes that include Julia pre-installed (pull requests welcome).

> **[GitHub - xiaodaigh/julia-data-science-base-docker-img: Julia Data Science...](https://github.com/xiaodaigh/julia-data-science-base-docker-img)**
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> Julia Data Science Docker with data science packages compiled for instant loading! - GitHub - xiaodaigh/julia-data-science-base-docker-img: Julia Data Science Docker with data science packages comp...

Add some magic from here would help.

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**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/12 "2020-05-21T14:48:26Z")

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You can use google colab but it takes maybe 10 minutes each time you start as julia has to install.

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**Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/13 "2021-02-04T16:30:23Z")

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You could also use GESIS notebooks notebooks.gesis[.]org (free for academic use) as an alternative, it builds on top of binderhub (mybinder) and the user sessions are persisted (the sweet spot between a binderhub and a jupyterhub 🙂 ).

Any binder-able Julia repo can be directly imported in persistent binderhub, Pluto.jl notebooks can also be created and saved on gesis notebooks.

To open a pluto.jl server(just like mybinder) you can use [this link](https://notebooks.gesis.org/services/binder/v2/gh/fonsp/pluto-on-binder/master?ulrpath=pluto), but sign up is required to persist your changes to the notebooks.

To open the demo Julia repo you can use [this link](https://notebooks.gesis.org/services/binder/v2/gh/binder-examples/demo-julia/master?filepath=demo.ipynb), sign up required.

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**Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-juliabox/37246/14 "2021-02-04T17:31:03Z")

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[https://notebooks.gesis.org/](https://notebooks.gesis.org/) is the Link