A look into Gitpod’s architectural journey and why the most exciting offerings have just arrived.
In October 2024, we launched Gitpod Flex. This was both a new product offering through our Flex tier, as well as a radically improved architecture. At the time, only users on our Free and Flex plans had access to this new foundation, while Enterprise users continued on what we now refer to as Gitpod Classic.
Today, we’re here to clarify and celebrate a key milestone: the Gitpod Flex architecture is now generally available, including in our Enterprise tier.
Most users just refer to Gitpod as Gitpod, rightfully so. To create clarity, we are dropping the name ‘Flex’ and referring to this latest version and architecture of Gitpod just as Gitpod.
With this change, we’re also introducing a Core tier in lieu of what was previously called Flex: available as a fully managed SaaS deployment, or self-hosted, for power users or smaller teams who want Gitpod-hosted compute with zero infrastructure overhead.
We understand the name ‘Flex’ might have implied it was either just a pricing tier or a completely new product. Under the hood, it represented a total replatforming of Gitpod that proved tricky to name.
To us, this wasn’t just a cosmetic upgrade, it was a full rethinking of how development environments should work.
If you’re still on Gitpod Classic, the benefits of migrating are immediate and significant:
For Enterprise users, you’ll still self-host Gitpod in your cloud account, with zero operational burden—we manage updates, scaling, and healing. And your data? It never leaves your VPC. And for those who are pay-as-you-go and want to continue hosting on Gitpod, Core will have you covered this summer.
With the architecture unified, Gitpod offers three clear ways to use the platform:
Gitpod isn’t just a self-hosted or SaaS product. It’s a way to automate and standardize development environments in whatever deployment works best for you: whether that be self-hosted or Gitpod-hosted or run in your local machine via Gitpod Desktop.
Whether you joined us recently or have been running on Gitpod Classic for years, now’s the time to experience Gitpod as it was always meant to be: faster, simpler, and ready for what’s next.
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