Jetson Nano is a lot more expensive. But at the same price point as Coral you can buy Orange Pi 5 with 4 gigs of ram, 6 tops NPU(not supported as good as Coral though, but is generally more open and has support of much more frameworks) and have a full-blown OS there. SBC is $66, and camera is another $15. And you can buy it right now, not "pre-order" something "coming soon". Coral supply history is a very sad tale. The hardware was impressive 4 years ago, when it first came out. But now we have no second generation in sight, no supply and no communication from Google that they are still interested in this project.
I've been writing gstreamer-based inference pipelines for a couple years on Jetsons and in my experience there is never a "just" with any of the these, sadly. It is such a painful platform to deal with at a software level... I wish NVidia had more competition.
Without RidgeRun wiki's working pipelines I'd have suspected gstreamer on Jetson never worked at all. It's beautiful when everything comes together but absolutely chock-full of gotchas.
Plus Nvidia seems to think that an acceptable time frame to support a Jetson model is like 2 years, which makes them effectively abandonware soon after launch. They get one LTS OS distro and that's it.
Compare that to ~15 years of ongoing support that the Pi foundation does for the average Pi.
I concur. I've been in that ecosystem for a few years and I finally had to give up on my Jetson Nano in "favor" the new Jetson Nano Orin. Which did solve a lot of my issues with software, and I paid for it, too. Just say no to Nvidia sbc lol but it's extremely powerful when the software is aligned with your goals.