Every free notebooks & data science tier that clears our bar in 2026: 6 offers meet the criteria and 4 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 8 of them: on 5 the page we cite did not answer, and on 3 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Best Free Notebooks & Data Science Tools

Every free notebooks & data science tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-30.

6 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 2 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, and we publish no durability signal for 3. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page. They are listed in an order that rotates daily. Here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 476 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 10 notebooks & data science offers →
1
Deepnote stable
Free

Data science notebook platform, Jupyter-compatible with real-time collaboration in the cloud — Free includes… Up to 3 editors, Up to 5 projects, Limited Deepnote AI, Unlimited Basic machines with 5 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, 7 day revision history. Deepnote AI includes 10 completions per month. Deepnote Agent includes 5 calls per month. Generate code includes 5 calls per month. Edit code includes 5 calls per month. Explain code includes 5 calls per month. Best for unlimited usage needs.

2
Free

Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, prefect.io/cloud reads: Free Hobby tier: 2 users, 5 workflows, managed infrastructure. We are not publishing our stored PrefectCloud terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-08-28: The free tier now includes 2 users, 5 workflows, and managed infrastructure. Previously 5 deployed workflows and 500 minutes of serverless compute credits per month. Source ↗

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: The free tier now includes 2 users, 5 workflows, and managed infrastructure. Previously 5 deployed workflows and 500 minutes of serverless compute credits per month. Source ↗
3
Free

Collaborative computation platform (formerly SageMathCloud) — browser-based Ubuntu with Python, LaTeX, Jupyter, SageMath, R, and Julia pre-installed. 1 project, 1 GB disk, shared CPU. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

4
Free

Data integration tool that syncs between apps. It can create live dashboards and reports, transform and manipulate values, and collect and back up insights. The free plan is limited to one user, data connection, data source, and data destination. Also requires manual data refresh. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-12, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

5
Free

A hosted Apache Superset service. Forever free for teams of up to 5 users, featuring unlimited dashboards and charts, a no-code chart builder, and a collaborative SQL editor. Best for unlimited usage needs. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-19, we could read no amount, tier or rate on the page, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

6
Hex stable
Free

Collaborative data platform for notebooks, data apps, and knowledge libraries. Community plan: up to 5 notebooks, up to 5 published apps, Small compute (4 GB RAM, 0.5 CPU), unlimited users, connect any data source, notebook agent trial (limited AI agent access). Best for unlimited usage needs.

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-05 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: The free tier (Community plan) still exists. The details have changed. Previously 'Small compute (2 GB RAM, 0.25 CPU)' for the free tier. The current pricing page shows 'Extra small 2 0.25 Free' and 'Small 4 0.5 Free' as compute profiles available for free. Also states 'Free trials are limited to Medium compute'. The free tier now has restrictions on published apps (up to 5) and shared collections (up to 3). Source ↗

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

−1
Free

Free Jupyter notebooks with GPU access (T4 when available). Sessions up to 12 hours. Python with pre-installed ML libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn). Dynamic resource limits based on availability. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 2 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-10 — page content too short (likely JS-rendered SPA); a rendering client read 32 characters), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Python notebooks by Jetbrains. Includes 10 GB of storage and 120 hours of runtime each month. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-14, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks. It is a free public service. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-10, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Cube helps data engineers and application developers access data from modern data stores, organize it into consistent definitions, and deliver it to every application. The fastest way to use Cube is with Cube Cloud, which has a free tier limited to 1,000 queries per day. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-26, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-26, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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2026-09-30
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best-of:Notebooks & Data Science
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6

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
Deepnote Free Data science notebook platform, Jupyter-compatible with real-time collaboration in the cloud — Free includes… Up to 3 ed... stable 2026-09-25
PrefectCloud Free As of 2026-08-28, prefect.io/cloud reads: Free Hobby tier: 2 users, 5 workflows, managed infrastructure. Our stored PrefectCloud terms are superseded and withheld. watch
discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown
2026-09-22
cocalc.com Free Collaborative computation platform (formerly SageMathCloud) — browser-based Ubuntu with Python, LaTeX, Jupyter, SageMath... not published
page states no amount · 2026-09-10
2026-09-10 / 2026-08-15
Coupler Free Data integration tool that syncs between apps. It can create live dashboards and reports, transform and manipulate value... not published
read not reconciled · 2026-09-12
2026-09-12 / 2026-08-02
Preset Cloud Free A hosted Apache Superset service. Forever free for teams of up to 5 users, featuring unlimited dashboards and charts, a ... not published
change not established · 2026-09-19
2026-09-19 / 2026-08-04
Hex Free Collaborative data platform for notebooks, data apps, and knowledge libraries. Community plan: up to 5 notebooks, up to ...
read found the page different · 2026-09-05
stable 2026-09-05

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free notebooks & data science tool in 2026?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 6 free notebooks & data science offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Which of these free notebooks & data science tiers have held their terms?

6 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 2 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, and we publish no durability signal for 3. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.

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