🆚 CodePen vs. CodeSandbox

Type

Code sharing technology
Code sharing technology

About

CodePen is an online social development environment and community for front-end designers and developers to write, test, share, and showcase HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code directly in a browser.

It features an in-browser editor with real-time live preview, supports embedding shared code snippets, community interaction through follows and comments, portfolio-style profiles and collections, preprocessors such as Sass and Babel, and collaborative editing and IDE-like Projects.

CodeSandbox is an online code editor that allows developers to create, share, and collaborate on web applications right in the browser.

Headquarters

Bend, Oregon, United States
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Ad-supported
Starter
(2GB, 2 person Collab Mode)
$12/month
Developer
(10 GB, 6 person Collab Mode)
$19/month
Super
(20 GB, 10 person Collab Mode)
$39/month
Free version ✔️Up to 40 hours of monthly VM credits
Pro$12+/month
Builder$170+/month
EnterpriseCustom

Categories

Code Sharing › Rank #1
Code Sharing › Rank #4

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

CodePen technology is 5 times more popular than CodeSandbox.
Total websites

Market share

Code Sharing

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

CodePen is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Poland, while CodeSandbox is more popular in the Cayman Islands.
United States
United Kingdom
Poland
India
Canada
Germany
Australia
Vietnam
France
Italy

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

CodePen is more popular among sites focused on business, Internet services, and marketing and merchandising, while CodeSandbox is more commonly used on finance and banking sites.
Business
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Real Estate
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware
Technical/Business Forums
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
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Name
Rank
#1,027
#13,266
#26,758
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See also

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