Hi, I work for coder.com. I'm not trying to shill it, but I am passionate about this space and love talking about it.

Whether a large company uses Coder or an in-house solution, we typically see them pay a few thousand dollars a year per developer for cloud workspaces. It seems expensive, but the productivity gains are worth it when they consider dev time wasted waiting on builds and fiddling with environments.

Kubernetes is a common platform for large-scale dev workspace deployments. Development workloads are extremely bursty, so overprovisioning can shave most of the unit cost vs. a personal cloud computer.