What Is Ona (formerly Gitpod)?
A cloud development environment platform rebranded from Gitpod in 2025 with an agent-first pivot.
Definition
A cloud development environment platform rebranded from Gitpod in 2025 with an agent-first pivot.
Ona provides automated, ready-to-code environments designed for both human developers and AI agents. There is no customer-managed self-hosted Ona: what exists is Ona-managed "runners" deployed into your own AWS or GCP VPC, an Enterprise-plan-only option in which source code and code execution stay inside your network while the control plane remains Ona's. That is bring-your-own-cloud, not self-hosting. OpenAI announced on 06-11-2026 that it was acquiring Ona, and Ona reports the deal closed on 08-10-2026. Ona has since announced that Ona Cloud shuts down on 10-31-2026 and that new Core subscriptions are no longer sold; the future of the Enterprise runner model has not been stated.
Where This Fits
This term is covered in depth on Ona (formerly Gitpod) Review.
Ona is a managed service with runners in your own cloud, not a self-hosted platform. What that distinction means, and what OpenAI ownership means.
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