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An honest comparison, including the cases where coworking is the wrong answer.
Coworking is sold as the answer to everything. It is not, and a directory that pretended otherwise would not be much use.
Your work is deep and solitary, your home has a door that closes, and you have a social life that does not depend on work. Home is free, and free is hard to beat. The failure mode is isolation, and it arrives slowly enough that people often do not notice until it has cost them something.
You need two or three hours out of the house, not a working day. They fail on calls, on power sockets, on any second screen, on anything confidential, and on the simple matter of leaving your laptop to visit the lavatory.
You need reliable internet, somewhere to take a call, an address that is not your house, and other people in the room. It is also the only one of these four that scales gracefully: one desk becomes three without a negotiation.
You have a team of roughly eight or more, you need the space configured your way, or your work needs a room nobody else can enter. Below that headcount the arithmetic rarely favours a lease once you count fit-out, furniture, internet, cleaning, insurance and the months you pay for space you have not grown into yet.