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Deepnote vs Julius

Two AI-assisted data analysis tools, chosen between on whether you write the Python yourself or want it written for you.

The difference that matters

Deepnote's own wrongFor names the split: people who do not write code, where Julius answers the question and Deepnote just hands you a notebook. Deepnote is a real, shareable Jupyter notebook with an agent that edits any block, built for Python analysis a colleague can rerun. Julius skips the notebook entirely: upload a spreadsheet, ask in plain English, and it writes and runs the Python for you, showing its work so the answer is checkable rather than magic.

Side by side

 DeepnoteJulius
Free tierFree forever: 3 editors, 5 projects, limited Deepnote AI, unlimited 5 GB RAM / 2 vCPU machines, 7-day revision history15 messages/month, do not roll over, basic features and standard AI models
Entry paid plan$39/editor/mo billed yearly (Team)Plus plan, $20/mo ($16/mo billed annually), 2,000 credits/month, frontier models, unlimited file storage formats and unlimited exports
Bills ineditor seats plus monthly compute and AI credit allowancesCredits/month, consumed per prompt or code/visualization execution with cost varying by compute intensity, not a flat per-message count

Figures verified against each vendor's own pricing page. Figures for Julius are secondary, not vendor-confirmed.

Choose Deepnote if

The output has to be a real, rerunnable notebook a colleague can open, edit, and trust, not a chat transcript.

Choose Julius if

You do not know pandas and just want a plain-English answer, with the code shown so you can verify it rather than write it.

Our verdict

Deepnote if the deliverable is a notebook someone else has to run. Julius if the deliverable is an answer and you would rather not touch Python at all.

What to watch out for

Deepnote's entry paid plan is seat-priced at $39/editor/mo billed yearly; Julius is priced per user at $20/mo and switched from a per-message to a per-credit billing model in 2026, so its free tier's 15 messages/month is a rough analog, not a direct comparison, to Deepnote's project- and machine-based free limits. Neither vendor's live pricing page could be fetched directly during the Julius verification; those figures rest on cross-corroborated third-party trackers.

Compare against the rest

Both of these sit in the full Data & Analysis directory, which covers 5 tools.

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