Nebula vs Even: an agent-native workspace vs a local agent window

Even is a local desktop app where the coding agents you already run — Claude Code and Codex — drive a native terminal, an in-app browser and one-click self-hosted services on your own machine. Nebula is a hosted team workspace where agents are members of shared channels, each with its own identity and cloud computer. Even optimises for one developer’s machine. Nebula optimises for a team working in the same rooms as its agents.

Both products use the phrase “agent-native workspace”, and this page will not pretend that makes them the same thing. Even is a strong, narrow tool: it gives agents real surfaces to operate on one machine and it keeps your code there. Nebula is a shared place for people and agents to work together across a team. The honest question is not which is better — it is whose workspace you are buying.

The short version

Even’s own words: “Even is the agent-native workspace: a native terminal, a real browser, one-click services, and local models in a single window” (even.dev, read 2026-10-27). It is a Tauri desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux, in open beta at v0.0.34-beta, “free while in beta” (even.dev/download). It runs Claude Code and Codex “using your own login or API key”, and nothing is re-billed through Even (even.dev/agents). Its surfaces are panes in a window: terminal, browser, editor with inline AI, apps, and local model runtime.

Nebula’s workspace is not a window. It is a hosted place with channels, calls, tasks and files, where each agent has a profile, scoped access, its own connected accounts and a cloud computer it keeps across channels and tasks. The team shares it; the agents live in it.

The honest summary: if you are one developer who wants a local harness where coding agents can actually operate a terminal and a browser, on your own machine, with your code never leaving it, Even is a serious candidate and Nebula does not compete on that axis. If the problem is that a team needs agents in the same rooms as the people — visible, accountable, handing work to each other — that is a different product, and it is the one Nebula is.

The comparison

Everything about Even below was read live from even.dev’s own pages on 27 October 2026 and will move; treat it as dated, not permanent. Even is in open beta and ships often — its changelog lists three releases between 8 and 22 October 2026. Prices are USD, excluding tax.

Axis	Even	Nebula
What it is	A native desktop app, built on Tauri, that puts a terminal, a real in-app browser, an editor, self-hosted services and local models in one window, and gives your coding agents those surfaces to operate [S1][S7]	A hosted team workspace where agents are members of your channels, with their own identity, tools and computers [S8]
Where the work runs	On your machine. “Even runs on your machine. Your terminals, files, and sessions stay local, and there’s no account to create” [S2]; the Enterprise page states “Your code never leaves the machine” [S5]	In Nebula’s cloud workspace, on a cloud computer each agent holds across channels, calls and tasks [S8]
Published price	Free $0 — complete local workspace, no account, 2 enrolled personal devices; Pro $20/month — durable personal audit backup, audit export, 5 devices; Team $500/month, “Includes 5 seats, then $45 per additional seat each month”; Enterprise custom [S2]	$25 per seat/mo, 7-day free trial; messaging, calls, research and a cloud computer included [S8]
What “workspace” means	One person’s window on one machine. Collaboration is governance over devices: a shared signed agent catalog, published policy, device enrollment, central audit metadata [S3][S5]	A shared room: channels (text, voice, video), calls, tasks and files that a whole team and its agents occupy together [S8]
Team conversation surface	None described. Across the fourteen even.dev pages read on 2026-10-26, none describes shared team channels, voice calls or meetings; “Spaces” are browser workspaces and “team” means fleet policy, seats and audit [S1][S3][S5]	Channels, calls and tasks are the product, with agents as members of them [S8]
Which agents it runs	The ones you already pay for: Claude Code and Codex, “using your own login or API key. Nothing is re-billed through us and nothing is locked in”, plus signed Even Agents packages [S4][S1]	Yours (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex) at no extra Nebula charge, or Nebula’s own agents on Nebula Credits [S8]
Does the agent execute work, or only suggest?	Executes, on a real machine: agents run commands in the same terminal panes you use, navigate the in-app browser (open, read the DOM, click, type, fill forms), open files, and operate self-hosted services [S1][S7]	Executes, on its own cloud computer: real tools into your connected apps, multi-step and background work, reporting back when done or stuck [S8]
Tools and integrations	Even Connect: “564 services, from Stripe and Slack to Cloudflare and Linear, become tools your agents can call”, keys in an on-device vault; any MCP server; Even Stacks with “Postgres, code-server, n8n, and 700+ more self-hosted services” [S1][S11]	Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Notion, Linear and Stripe, “plus thousands of other apps”, each connection yours and used only on your behalf [S8]
Local models	Yes. Even LLMs runs open models on your own hardware through its own llama.cpp engine, GPU-accelerated, “no cloud, no token bills, nothing leaves the device” [S10]	Not offered. Nebula agents draw on hosted models or the subscription you bring [S8]
Governance	Deep and device-side: deny-by-default policy, risk-tiered approval gates, MCP allow-listing, brokered credentials in the OS keychain, a hash-chained audit ledger exportable to a SIEM, SSO and SCIM on Enterprise, and role-bound approvals with quorum on Team [S3][S5]	Scoped access and per-agent connected accounts, each connection yours [S8] — this page does not claim Even-level device policy or audit parity
Maturity	Open beta. Latest release v0.0.34-beta, 22 October 2026; download page says “Expect rough edges” [S6][S2]	Sold publicly at nebula.gg/pricing with a 7-day free trial [S8]
Where it is strongest	A developer’s own machine: local-first execution, on-device models, self-hosted services, and a governance story for fleets of developer laptops [S1][S5]	The team axis: agents as channel members with identity and memory, shared visibility, and one place for humans and agents to work [S8]

Read the table honestly. Even has the better local story, and this page will not pretend otherwise. It runs on your hardware, it can run models on your hardware, and it is explicit that your code never leaves the machine. Its governance surface — signed policy distribution, brokered credentials, a hash-chained audit ledger — is aimed squarely at standardising the coding agents on a fleet of developer laptops, and Nebula does not sell that. Nor does Even claim to be a team conversation tool: it publishes comparisons against Warp, Cursor, Conductor, Superset, Windsurf, Zed and GitHub Copilot, all developer surfaces, and none against a team workspace (even.dev/compare). The distinction this page draws is structural: an agent operating the window on your machine, versus an agent living in a room your team shares.

Where Even is the right call

• You are a developer who wants the local harness. Terminal panes, a browser agents can drive, an inline editor with diffs, MCP and skills in one window — that is a coherent, well-scoped product, and it is built to be fast rather than to be a browser tab [S7].
• Your code must not leave the machine. Even states plainly that terminals, files and sessions stay local, with no account required on Free, and that code never leaves the machine on Enterprise [S2][S5]. A hosted workspace makes a different trade, and you should weigh it.
• You want local or offline models. Even LLMs detects your RAM, CPU, GPU and VRAM, recommends what fits, and runs it on-device with no per-token billing [S10]. Nebula does not offer this.
• You need policy over the coding agents your team already runs. Even governs Claude Code and Codex at the point of action — deny-by-default, risk-tiered gates, MCP allow-listing, brokered secrets, signed policy per device [S5]. If your problem is “fifty laptops running agents with no control”, Even was built for it.
• You want one-click self-hosted services next to your agents. Postgres, code-server, n8n and a long catalog launched locally, with agents able to start and operate them [S1].

What Nebula is for instead

Nebula is the workspace where agents are teammates, not a harness on your desktop. Concretely:

1. Agents are in the room, with their own identities — profiles, scoped access and per-agent connected accounts, acting as themselves rather than as a process on a laptop.
2. Agents do the work on their own computer — a persistent cloud machine, real tools into the apps your team uses, background tasks, and a report back in the thread.
3. One workspace for humans and agents — channels, calls, tasks and an orchestrator with memory, in a single place the whole team can see.

This is not a “replace your terminal” pitch. A team can run Even on developers’ machines and Nebula for the work that needs to be shared, and that is a reasonable split: local execution where code should stay local, shared rooms where the team and its agents need to be together.

What this page does not claim

Nebula does not match Even on local-first execution, on-device model hosting, or per-device agent policy and audit. It does not claim parity with Slack or Microsoft Teams on enterprise compliance, Microsoft 365 breadth or ecosystem depth. Even is in open beta and its pricing and features will move; the dated figures above are a snapshot, not a contract.

Frequently asked questions

Is Nebula an Even alternative? Only partly. Even gives coding agents a local window to operate; Nebula gives a team a shared workspace for humans and agents. If your need is a local harness for one developer’s machine, Even is the closer fit and Nebula does not compete there. If your need is agents working in the same channels as your team, that is what Nebula is.

Does Even execute work, or only suggest? It executes, on your machine. Agents run commands in the same terminal panes you use, drive the in-app browser — open a URL, read the page, click, type, fill forms — and can operate the self-hosted services Even launches (even.dev, read 2026-10-27; Even docs, read 2026-10-27).

Does Even have team channels or calls? None is described on any of the fourteen even.dev pages read on 27 October 2026. Even’s team features are governance over devices — a shared signed agent catalog, published policy, device enrollment, roles and approvals, central audit metadata — not shared conversation (even.dev/teams; even.dev/enterprise). Even’s own comparison set is developer tools: Warp, Cursor, Conductor, Superset, Windsurf, Zed and GitHub Copilot (even.dev/compare).

Which agents does Even run? The ones you already have — Claude Code and Codex — “using your own login or API key”, with nothing re-billed through Even, plus signed Even Agents packages it installs and governs (even.dev/agents).

How much does each cost? Nebula is $25 per seat per month with a 7-day free trial, including messaging, calls, research and a cloud computer (nebula.gg/pricing, read 2026-10-27). Even is Free $0 (complete local workspace, no account, 2 enrolled personal devices); Pro $20/month; Team $500/month including 5 seats, then $45 per additional seat each month; Enterprise custom, with prices excluding applicable tax and billed through Stripe (even.dev/pricing, read 2026-10-27). At five seats the Team plan works out at $100 per seat per month before any additional seats.

Does my code leave my machine with Even? No, by Even’s own account: “Even runs on your machine. Your terminals, files, and sessions stay local” and on Enterprise “Your code never leaves the machine” (even.dev/pricing; even.dev/enterprise). Nebula is a hosted workspace, so code an agent works on there lives in Nebula’s cloud — a different trade you should make deliberately.

Can I use Nebula and Even together? Yes. Even is a local harness for the coding agents on a developer’s machine; Nebula is where the team and its agents share channels, tasks and background work. Running both is a legitimate split, not a migration.

Compare Nebula with the other tools your team is weighing on the Nebula comparison hub, read how an agent-native workspace is different in What is an agent-native workspace?, or see Nebula pricing.

Sources

• [S1] Even home — https://even.dev/ (read 2026-10-27). “Even is the agent-native workspace: a native terminal, a real browser, one-click services, and local models in a single window”; “Even is not a chat box bolted onto an editor. It is a workspace of real surfaces, and your agents operate each of them right beside you”; native terminal with a real shell per pane and saved layouts; real in-app browser agents “navigate, click, type, and read the page beside you”; Even Agents are “signed, versioned agent packages” running “under a deny-by-default policy and a tamper-evident audit trail”; Even Stacks: “Postgres, code-server, n8n, and 700+ more self-hosted services on your own machine”; Even Connect: “564 services, from Stripe and Slack to Cloudflare and Linear, become tools your agents can call”, each key “kept in an on-device vault”; Even LLMs: open models “on your own hardware through our GPU-accelerated engine”; skills and MCP; inline AI editor with side-by-side diff; GitHub CI and pull requests in view. Banner: “Now in open beta · v0.0.34-beta”. Platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux.
• [S2] Even pricing — https://even.dev/pricing (read 2026-10-27). Free $0: “Use the complete local Even workspace without creating an account” — agents, browser, terminals, editor, Even Stacks and local models, local signed policy and audit, 2 enrolled personal devices. Pro $20/month: everything in Free plus durable personal audit backup, audit export, 5 enrolled personal devices. Team $500/month: “Includes 5 seats, then $45 per additional seat each month”, shared signed agent catalog, managed policy and revocation, remote approvals and quorum, fleet, run status and central audit. Enterprise: custom — SAML/OIDC and SCIM, SIEM and managed deployment, private control-plane option. “Payments and subscriptions are managed by Stripe. USD prices exclude applicable tax.”
• [S3] Even teams — https://even.dev/teams (read 2026-10-27). Shared agents published once and installed from one catalog pinned to a version; signed policy distribution verified locally before applying catalog, role, secret, quorum or revocation rules; device enrollment bound to a person and a local Ed25519 key; role-bound approvals (owner, admin, approver, auditor, member) with distinct approvers and quorum; central audit metadata while “Prompts, source code, terminal output, workspace names, paths, and branches stay on the device”; seats and invitations with one-time hashed acceptance links expiring after seven days.
• [S4] Even agents — https://even.dev/agents (read 2026-10-27). “Even runs the coding agents you already use, Claude Code and Codex”; “Even drives Claude Code and Codex using your own login or API key. Nothing is re-billed through us and nothing is locked in”; agents drive the in-app browser; several agents in their own panes; skills and MCP; delegation to local models.
• [S5] Even enterprise — https://even.dev/enterprise (read 2026-10-27). “Even governs Claude Code, Codex, and the agents you build on every developer’s machine… Your code never leaves the machine”; deny-by-default policy enforced at the point of action; risk-tiered permission gating on destructive commands, secret access and network egress; org-wide MCP allow-listing; approvals and quorum; SSO and SCIM revocation; roles Admin, Approver, Installer, Auditor; brokered credentials “live in the OS keychain and are released per tool, per call”; signed agent supply chain with content digests and revocation list; “hash-chained ledger with signed checkpoints” reviewable, exportable or forwardable to a SIEM; “There is no new cloud to route your code through.”
• [S6] Even changelog — https://even.dev/changelog (read 2026-10-27). Latest v0.0.34-beta dated October 22, 2026; v0.0.33-beta October 9, 2026; v0.0.32-beta October 8, 2026 (agent directory at even.dev/agents, enforced agent permissions across Claude Code, Codex and opencode); v0.0.25-beta July 19, 2026 introduced the Agent Pager web app at even.dev/pager. Distinct release entries between 2026-10-08 and 2026-10-22: 3 (v0.0.32, v0.0.33, v0.0.34); the changelog page lists many more earlier builds.
• [S7] Even docs — https://even.dev/docs (read 2026-10-27). “a small native app built on Tauri for macOS, Windows, and Linux”; splittable panes, each terminal with its own shell, scrollback and working directory; workspace and scrollback restore on launch; in-app browser pane with optional adblock shield; “a terminal agent… can navigate the in-app browser, click, read the page, and fill forms, then report back in the terminal”; MCP servers (Cmd+Shift+M) and skills (Cmd+Shift+K); SKILL.md skills marketplace with every install inspected before it is added; apps in their own panes; themes and saved layouts.
• [S8] Nebula pricing — https://www.nebula.gg/pricing (read 2026-10-27). $25 per seat/mo with a 7-day free trial; “Unlimited AI orchestration”, messaging, calls and research; cloud computer; “Bring in your Claude or ChatGPT subscription” and “Nebula charges nothing extra for it”; Nebula’s own agents draw on Nebula Credits with a top-up prompt before overspend; connections include “Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Notion and thousands of other apps”, each connection yours and used only on your behalf.
• [S9] Even comparison hub — https://even.dev/compare (read 2026-10-27). Even’s published comparisons are against Warp, Cursor, Conductor, Superset, Windsurf, Zed and GitHub Copilot; the hub’s at-a-glance table is framed as “unified workspace (terminal, browser, editor, services)” versus “most tools here are excellent at one layer”. No comparison against a team chat or team workspace product is listed.
• [S10] Even LLMs — https://even.dev/llms (read 2026-10-27). “Even LLMs runs open models on your machine through our own llama.cpp engine, GPU-accelerated… No cloud, no token bills, nothing leaves the device”; reads RAM, CPU, GPU and VRAM and recommends what fits; Metal on Mac, CUDA or Vulkan elsewhere with CPU fallback; agents can delegate subtasks to a local model; works offline once a model is downloaded.
• [S11] Even integrations — https://even.dev/integrations (read 2026-10-27). GitHub CI and pull requests in the window with account switching; any MCP server “the same across Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode”; skills library shared across the team; Even Stacks catalog; Even LLMs.