The 10 Best Coworking Spaces in Bali for Remote Workers

It's 9 AM in Canggu, a rooster is going off somewhere behind the building, and forty laptops are already open on Dojo's top floor while a barista calls out flat whites. This is what remote work looks like in Bali now. The island has been the engine room of the Southeast Asian nomad scene for years, and the coworking spaces have grown up alongside it: open-air bamboo pavilions over the rice paddies on one end, air-conditioned tech hubs with standing desks and podcast booths on the other.

I've worked from Bali on and off for four years and put my laptop on a desk in pretty much every space worth naming. These are the 10 best. Below you'll find the standouts in Ubud, Canggu, and Seminyak, with honest reviews, the prices people actually pay, and WiFi speeds I ran on my own laptop rather than copied off a brochure. Need bulletproof internet for a day of deploys? Want a jungle-view desk and a slower pace? Both are here.

City scores at a glance

City	Nomad Score	Budget	Cost	WiFi	Safety	Community	Climate
CangguIndonesia	7.4	$2,200/mo	6	6	7	10	7
UbudIndonesia	7.6	$1,800/mo	7	5	8	9	7

The Nomad HQ ratings, scored 0 to 10 across our 13 categories. Open a city guide for the full breakdown.

Why Bali for Remote Work?

The appeal runs deeper than the Instagram grid. Money goes a long way here: a comfortable month including accommodation, food, coworking, and a scooter lands around $1,200-1,800. The same life in London or Sydney costs three to four times that. Bali also sits at GMT+8, which is one of those quietly underrated perks. Your working day brushes up against both Australian morning hours and the European afternoon, so a team scattered across continents can still find an hour where everyone is awake.

The community is the other half of it. In a newer nomad town you might be one of five remote workers nursing a laptop in the only decent cafe. Bali has thousands of us at any given moment. Meetups, mastermind groups, founder dinners, co-living houses: they're everywhere, and they run constantly. You don't spend your first week hunting for your people. Show up to one Dojo happy hour and they find you instead.

Then there's the part that keeps people booking the return flight. A surf at dawn before the first call, yoga at lunch, a beach club at sunset. The food alone earns its reputation, from a cheap plate of nasi campur at a local warung to international restaurants that would still cost triple at home. None of it is frictionless. Power cuts happen, the wet season floods low roads, and the traffic in Canggu can ruin an afternoon. For most nomads the math still comes out heavily in Bali's favor.

Planning to hop between destinations? Check out why nomads are flocking to Tbilisi for a budget-friendly alternative, or see how Bali stacks up in our Medellín vs Chiang Mai comparison of top nomad hubs.

Ubud: The Creative Heart

Ubud sits inland, ringed by terraced rice paddies and jungle thick enough to swallow the sound of the nearest road. It pulls a different crowd than the coast: writers, painters, yoga teachers, and nomads who'd take birdsong over a beach bar any day. The coworking spaces lean into that. Expect open walls, a lot of plants, and the kind of quiet where you can actually hear yourself think. If your best work happens away from the noise, this is your half of the island.

Outpost Ubud is the flagship of the Outpost brand and still one of the most polished places to work on the island. It stacks across several levels looking out over the Campuhan river valley, with dedicated desks, private offices, and meeting rooms kitted out for real client work. WiFi clocks a steady 50-80 Mbps, and the generators kick in fast enough that an outage barely interrupts a sentence. Hot desks start at $150/month, dedicated desks at $250. The trick here is the coliving upstairs: roll out of bed, down a flight of stairs, and you're at your desk before the coffee finishes brewing. The crowd skews founder and remote team lead, people who came to ship.

Hubud ("hub in Ubud") is more or less where Bali's coworking story started, back when it opened in 2013. The building is an open-air bamboo structure that looks like it grew out of the ground, all curved beams and dappled light, and it's a genuine pleasure to work inside. WiFi sits around 30-50 Mbps, fine for most days but enough to make a heavy uploader sigh. Memberships run $130-200/month by plan. What you're really paying for is the calendar: skill-shares every week, fireside chats with founders, evening socials that spill into dinner. No space in Ubud is better for actually meeting people.

The Nook is the cheap one I keep going back to. It's a cafe and coworking hybrid wedged into the rice fields, open-air, with green stretching out past your screen in every direction. The casual look undersells it: WiFi holds 25-40 Mbps, outlets are everywhere, and the food and coffee are good and cheap. Day passes are $5-8 and fold into a food and drink minimum, so there's no real membership to buy. It runs like a cafe that happens to tolerate laptops all day. Bring your own headphones, skip it if you need a phone booth or a meeting room, and otherwise enjoy one of the best desk views in Bali.

Canggu: The Nomad Capital

If Ubud is the quiet half, Canggu is where the volume is. A sleepy surf village a decade ago, it's now the busiest nomad zone in Bali, packed with a density of coworking spaces, cafes, and co-living houses you won't match in many cities on earth. The beach is a short ride away, the social scene never really stops, and the whole place has quietly rewired itself around remote work. The catch: traffic can be brutal, the crowds keep growing, and the "authentic Bali" postcard has mostly been replaced by smoothie bowls and Australian brunch. Plenty of nomads decide that's a fair price for the convenience.

Dojo Bali is the heavyweight, probably the most famous coworking space in Southeast Asia, and the one that opened this article. It sprawls over a multi-story building on the main strip: an open-air top floor, air-conditioned rooms below, private offices, phone booths, a podcast studio, an event space. The internet is the kind you stop thinking about, a rock-solid 70-100 Mbps on dedicated fiber with failover. Hot desks start at $180/month, dedicated desks at $280, with private offices for teams. The real draw is the relentless social calendar: happy hours, skill workshops, founder meetups, dawn surf trips. If you want to be at the dead center of nomad Bali, this is the address.

Outpost Canggu carries the same polish as its Ubud sibling, now with the ocean nearby. It's quieter than Dojo and more head-down, which is exactly why a certain kind of nomad picks it. You get ergonomic chairs, standing desks, and air conditioning cold enough to matter once you've spent a week sweating through your shirt elsewhere. WiFi runs 50-80 Mbps with a backup line. Hot desks are $160/month, dedicated desks $260. The rooftop is the part people remember: ocean on the horizon, a good spot to take a call or stare into the middle distance until an idea shows up.

BWork Bali is the new kid, and it arrived with a reputation for the fastest internet on the island. It's tucked into Berawa, the calmer end of Canggu, and it feels less like a tropical coworking space than a Singapore tech office that took a wrong turn and stayed. WiFi holds 80-120 Mbps on enterprise-grade gear. Hot desks start at $170/month. The thing that sells it is the meeting rooms: properly lit, properly soundproofed, the rare Bali space where you can take a four-hour call day without apologizing for a scooter roaring past mid-sentence. If your week is mostly video, work here.

Tribal Bali is a hostel and coworking hybrid built for younger nomads and thinner wallets. The work area mixes indoor desks with shaded outdoor ones, and the energy is loud and friendly in the way only a hostel can be. WiFi averages 30-50 Mbps, enough for most of what you'll throw at it. Coworking starts at $100/month, and bundling a bed with your desk gets the combined cost down to something that almost feels like a typo. The pool earns its keep too: there are afternoons when a 15-minute swim does more for your output than another coffee. Solo and want an instant social circle? Start here.

Seminyak & Beyond

Ubud and Canggu hog the conversation, but the south has its own scene. Around Seminyak, Kerobokan, and Denpasar you'll find coworking that's often cheaper and noticeably less crowded. Seminyak is Bali's upscale shopping and dining stretch, more polished and a good deal less backpacker than Canggu. The desks here fill up with a different mix: Indonesian entrepreneurs, expat business owners, and nomads who'd rather skip the smoothie-bowl scrum and just get on with it.

Kumpul is a homegrown Indonesian brand with a lovely space near Seminyak. The design is warm rather than corporate, Balinese carved wood meeting clean modern desks, with open seating, semi-private nooks, and fully enclosed offices to pick from. WiFi runs 40-60 Mbps and the air conditioning actually holds. Memberships start at $120/month, which is strong value for what you get. The best part isn't the room, it's the people in it. Instead of the tourist churn you find in Canggu, you end up next to local startup founders and freelancers, and you leave with a far clearer picture of how business actually runs on the island.

GoWork Sunset Road belongs to a bigger Indonesian chain and feels it, in a good way: corporate-grade for backpacker money. It sits on busy Sunset Road, far handier from southern Bali and Denpasar than anything in Canggu or Ubud. Air-conditioned, professionally run, stocked with printers, scanners, and proper conference rooms. WiFi is a strong 50-70 Mbps. Hot desks start at $100/month, putting it among the cheapest dedicated spaces around. The clincher is 24/7 access, which barely exists in Bali and turns into a genuine lifeline the night a US or European client wants you on a 2 AM call.

Colony Hotel Coworking in Seminyak tries something else entirely: a coworking floor folded into a boutique hotel. The result is polished to the point of being a touch showy, with a pool and a restaurant a few steps from your laptop. WiFi averages 40-60 Mbps. Day passes start at $15, monthly runs around $180. What you're buying is the setting. It reads as a resort that lets you work rather than an office that happens to have a pool, which makes it a smart pick for client-facing folks, or anyone who wants the premium feel without signing for a private office.

How to Choose the Right Space

Ten strong options, and the right one for you depends almost entirely on how you actually work. No single space fits everyone. The place your favorite travel vlogger gushes about may be exactly wrong for your week of back-to-back calls. A few things are worth checking before you hand over a month's membership.

Internet reliability matters more than raw speed. A headline 100 Mbps means nothing if the line drops three times before lunch. Ask the blunt questions: backup connection, generator, what actually happens when the power goes. For calls and uploads you want at least 30 Mbps up, and you want it every time, not just at 7 AM. So test during the crush, roughly 10 AM to 2 PM, before you commit. Off-peak numbers are a sales pitch, not a measurement.

Community vs. focus is a real trade-off. Dojo and Hubud are brilliant for meeting people, but that same buzz will shred a morning of deep work. Outpost and BWork flip it: heads-down and quiet, which can feel a little lonely your first week on the island with no friends yet. Pick for your bigger need and patch the gap with the other. Work hard at a quiet space, then go meet people at a Dojo happy hour. Or the reverse.

Price adds up quickly, so match your budget to your usage. Work a full 40-hour week and a monthly membership beats day passes almost every time. Split your days between coworking and laptop-friendly cafes, though, and a 10-day punch card or part-time plan (most spaces offer one) probably saves you real money. Watch the food too. A space with no kitchen and a pricey on-site cafe can quietly skim another $100-200 off your month while you're not looking.

Location relative to your accommodation is underrated. Bali traffic is genuinely awful, and Canggu at rush hour is the worst of it. A desk that's a "10-minute ride" on the map can become a sweaty 40-minute crawl behind a truck and a hundred scooters at 6 PM. Pick the good-enough space near your bed over the trendy one across town. You'll work more and curse less.

Pro Tips for Coworking in Bali

Always have backup internet. However solid your coworking space is, Bali's grid does what it wants. Grab a local SIM with a fat data plan from Telkomsel, the most reliable network, on day one at the airport. A 30 GB plan runs $10-15/month and has bailed me out more times than I can count. I carry a pocket WiFi hotspot as a second line for the calls that can't drop. Overkill until the exact moment the lights cut out mid-sentence on a client call, at which point it's the smartest fifteen dollars you ever spent.

Plan around rainy season. The wet season runs roughly November through March, and it hits more than your beach plans. When the rain comes it comes hard, fast enough to flood a low road, knock out the power, and strand you under an awning for an hour. Generators stop being a nice-to-have and start being the whole point, which is where Dojo, Outpost, and BWork pull ahead. Mornings usually stay dry even in the thick of it, so do your important work before noon. The upside is real: thinner crowds, softer prices, and a calmer feeling at every desk on the island.

Power outages are normal; prepare accordingly. Even in the dry months, the lights blink off briefly more often than you'd expect. Keep your battery above 50%, hit save like it's a nervous tic, and don't book a make-or-break call during a thunderstorm. The serious coworking spaces run UPS units and generators that bridge the gap without you noticing; the small cafes almost never do. If your work can't tolerate downtime, ask about backup power before you pay for anything.

Try before you buy. Almost every space here sells day passes, so use them. Put in a full working day before you sign up for a month. A 20-minute tour tells you nothing; a real day tells you whether the noise spikes at 11 AM, whether the chair has wrecked your back by 4 PM, what the WiFi truly does under load, and whether the room fits how you work. I've watched plenty of nomads buy a month off the back of a slick walkthrough, then quietly switch a week later when the day-to-day didn't match the brochure.

Final Picks

After working from all ten across several stays, here's where I'd send three different kinds of remote worker:

Best Overall: Dojo Bali (Canggu). It's the full package. Fast, reliable internet, a layout that flexes between heads-down and social, a community nobody else touches, and an events calendar that nearly justifies the membership on its own. One space in Bali? Make it this one. At $180/month for a hot desk it's frankly underpriced for what comes with it. It's loud, and that won't suit everyone, but for most nomads Dojo is the bar everything else gets measured against.

Best for Productivity: BWork Bali (Canggu). When the work needs fast, unshakeable internet and no one tapping your shoulder, BWork wins. The 80-120 Mbps speeds, the soundproofed meeting rooms, the quieter floor: it's built for developers, designers, and anyone whose calendar is a wall of calls. It lacks the social hum of Dojo or Hubud, and that's the whole idea. You came to get things done, and it gets out of your way.

Best for the Experience: Hubud (Ubud). Nothing in Bali, maybe nothing anywhere, feels quite like Hubud. Working inside a handmade bamboo structure with the light filtering through, in the cultural center of the island, is the sort of thing you remember long after you've forgotten which client you were emailing. The programming is excellent and the people tend to be deliberate, the kind building something they actually care about. If you came to Bali for the experience as much as the paycheck, don't leave without a day here.

Frequently Asked Questions About Coworking in Bali

How much do coworking spaces in Bali cost per month?

Most coworking spaces in Bali run between $100 and $280 a month. Budget options like Tribal and GoWork start near $100, mid-range spaces such as Hubud and Outpost sit around $130 to $250, and premium hubs like Dojo top out around $280 for a dedicated desk.

Which is the best coworking space in Bali overall?

For most nomads, Dojo Bali in Canggu is the best overall coworking space. The internet is fast and reliable, the design suits different work modes, and the community and events calendar are unmatched on the island. At around $180 a month for a hot desk, it is excellent value.

Is the WiFi reliable enough for remote work in Bali?

WiFi at the better coworking spaces in Bali handles video calls and uploads, with measured speeds ranging from about 25 Mbps at casual cafes up to 120 Mbps at BWork. Reliability matters more than raw speed, so favor spaces with backup generators and always carry a local SIM as backup.

Should I choose Ubud or Canggu for coworking in Bali?

It depends on your style. Ubud suits writers, creatives, and nomads who want quiet, jungle-view spaces and a mindful pace. Canggu is the busier nomad capital, with beach access, the densest cluster of coworking spaces, and a louder social scene. Many nomads split their time between both.

How do I choose the right coworking space in Bali?

Match the space to your priorities. Test WiFi during peak hours, weigh community against deep focus, and factor in food costs and the distance from your accommodation, since Bali traffic can turn a short ride into 40 minutes. Use a day pass before committing to any monthly plan.

What should I know before working remotely from Bali?

Always have backup internet, since power cuts and outages are common, especially in rainy season from November through March. Keep your laptop charged, save work often, and prefer spaces with generators. Pairing a focused coworking space with a steady remote work routine keeps your output consistent.

Are there budget coworking options in Bali?

Yes. Several Bali coworking spaces cater to tighter budgets. The Nook in Ubud runs day passes around $5 to $8, while Tribal Bali, Kumpul, and GoWork start near $100 a month. Hostel-coworking hybrids like Tribal also bundle accommodation, making them some of the cheapest ways to work on the island.

Yannick Schroth

Yannick Schroth is the founder of The Nomad HQ. He writes practical, field-tested guides for digital nomads on visas, cost of living, coworking, and building a remote career you can run from anywhere.

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