Gitpod is now Ona, moving beyond the IDE

IDEs defined the last era. Agents define the next. As the work of programming moves from typing to product taste, decision making, and review, everything about how we create software changes. To thrive in the next decades, engineers will have to move beyond the IDE. And they deserve a power tool that makes that shift natural and exciting.

That's why we're re-founding the company as Ona: the mission control for your personal team of software engineering agents working across the entire software development lifecycle. Ona is sandboxed for high-autonomy, runs full VS Code in the browser and also works on your phone.

Start today for free and get $100 in free usage if you sign up for our Core tier in September.

With recent model improvements, software engineering agents can now handle well-scoped professional tasks effectively. Inside our own product engineering org, Ona Agents quickly surpassed Claude Code. Last week Ona co-authored 60% of our PRs merged on main and contributed 72% of lines of code merged. Customers report a 4× increase in throughput with Ona. Here is what makes Ona Agents different:

• Sandboxed for high-autonomy. Each Ona Agent runs in its own ephemeral environment with full OS-level isolation. No '--dangerously-skip-permissions' flags required. No shared worktrees. This eliminates cross-environment conflicts and enables reliable, secure autonomy. Use our cloud or run Ona in your own VPC.
• Work in parallel. Scope issues on your backlog, then delegate them to your personal team of agents. A unified, calm interface shows what's ready for review, what's in progress, and what's been modified.
• Professional edit and review. Move seamlessly between Ona’s conversational interface, VS Code in the browser, or if you're feeling nostalgic: your favorite desktop IDE.
• Keep momentum everywhere. Start on your phone, continue on your iPad, finish on your laptop.

Our CTO Chris put together a practical guide on how we get the most from Ona every day, and next week we’re hosting a live session with Kingland, a CMMI 5 organization, to share how they’ve scaled Ona in production. We’re at the beginning of what Ona can do, but it's clear that this is a new, exciting way to create software.

Ona Mission Control

Ona is architected as one platform where engineers explore, scope, delegate, code, review, and document software across the entire development lifecycle. It’s built on three core components:

Ona Environments

Every interaction with Ona happens inside API-first, sandboxed cloud development environments. They come pre-configured with all dependencies, tools, and connectivity to build software. Environments authenticate seamlessly with source control, registries, databases, secret managers, IDEs, and Ona Agents. They’re declarative, defined with devcontainer.json and automations.yml, and can run in our cloud or in your infrastructure - giving you complete control over source, secrets, network, and agents.

Ona Agents

Your personal team of professional software engineering agents. With private LLM access and MCP support, organizations can enable or disable capabilities as needed. Collaborate with Ona Agents through our conversational interface, VS Code in the browser, or take over instantly in your desktop IDE. Slash commands let you codify and share workflows from your best engineers - for example, our internal frontend favorite quickly became /review-like-mads.

Ona Guardrails

Our Enterprise offering is built for bank-grade security and compliance with full programmatic access via our SDK and API. Ona Environments keep your source code and secrets isolated and short-lived. Org-wide policies, RBAC, SSO, OIDC and command deny lists give you precision control. Every human and AI action is logged with detailed audit trails. Deploy in your own VPC with full control over domains, load balancers, certificates, and proxies and choose your own models through AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, or private APIs.

From Gitpod to Ona

After more than five years as Gitpod, we’ve outgrown our name. What began as a one-click online IDE for GitHub has evolved into cloud development environments used by 2 million developers. Just last quarter, we quadrupled Enterprise ARR YoY and secured a near 8-figure contract. We now serve the world’s major institutions including America's largest banks, Europe's leading financial and pharmaceutical companies and Asia's top sovereign wealth funds.

We’ve been diligently working towards Ona and are curious to see if you like what we've built.

Same people, different name, bigger ambition.

Welcome to Ona.