Spacelift is a Terraform Cloud alternative that offers a predictable pricing model, instead of the resources-under-management (RUM) model. Our pricing starts at $399 per month, for unlimited deployments and ten users.
And Spacelift offers far more than cost advantages: Build custom multi-IaC workflows that can share outputs, do advanced scheduling of tasks or infrastructure deletion, detect and remediate drift, build self-service infrastructure, and more.
Pricing model
Concurrency-based
Resource-based (RUM)
Multi-IaC Workflow
Terraform
Terragrunt
OpenTofu
Custom Terraform
Kubernetes
Ansible
Cloud Formation
Pulumi
Terraform
Nothing else
Policies across various decision points
You can control almost any aspect of the platform through policies
Only the equivalent of plan and approval policies
Integrations
Unlimited
Limited to Run tasks
Full-Workflow Control
Full control over your workflow
Limited to what TFC lets you do
Targeted Runs
Native
Only with env var
Atlantis-style workflow
Plan and apply on pull request
Plan only
Resource Management
Full inventory management solution including visualization, lifecycle tracking, search, and filtering
Resource view only per workspace
Custom Tasks
Run arbitrary tasks on the stack level & task scheduling
No
Private Workers
Yes
Yes
Terraform Provider
Yes
Yes
VCS Integrations
GitHub
GitLab
BitBucket
Azure DevOps
Raw Git
GitHub
GitLab
BitBucket
Azure DevOps
Raw Git
Drift Detection
Yes
Yes
Advanced Scheduling
Yes
No
SSO (OIDC & SAML)
Yes
Yes
State Management
Managed + optional ability to use other backends
Managed only
Credential-less integrations with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Yes
Yes
Flexible Support
Yes
Yes
Private Registry
Yes
Yes
Cost Estimation
Yes
Yes
Terraform Cloud pricing means only the premium tiers provide full value: The free and standard tiers offer just a taste. And the RUM pricing model means you have no control over your monthly bills. Spacelift pricing is based on concurrency, so it’s always predictable. You could secure a 5x IaC cost reduction!
Migrating to a new product can be daunting, but Spacelift provides an automation to make it easy. Our Spacelift Migration Kit speeds up the process by mapping the existing configuration and state to Spacelift resources.
Spacelift doesn’t limit you to Terraform. Manage your entire infrastructure with one platform, and use your choice of other infra-as-code tools for the job at hand.
Policies across the whole platform – create an unlimited number of policies in all tiers, and attach them to as many stacks as you want.
Create dependencies between stacks and pass outputs from one to another, using Spacelift’s Stack Dependencies. You can run a stack after another one finishes, and because they are directed acyclic graphs (DAG), it’s easy to have nested dependencies.
Unlike other Terraform Cloud alternatives, Spacelift allows you to integrate as many tools as you want in your workflow. You can even define policies for these tools.
Other Terraform Cloud alternatives offer limited integration with Git providers, but Spacelift is truly GitOps Native. Thanks to push policies, it fully supports arbitrary Git flows, including massive monorepos. It will also use your Git provider APIs (e.g., GitHub’s Checks and Deployments APIs) for ultimate visibility.
Scaling is not where Terraform Cloud shines — our customers confirm this. Why waste time troubleshooting, when you could be adding real business value? Spacelift customers spend 90% less time on cloud management and get up and running on AWS in half the expected time.
If you want to migrate from Terraform Cloud, we are here to help - learn how to use our Spacelift Migration Kit to speed up the process.
If you want to migrate from Terraform Cloud, we are here to help - learn how to use our Spacelift Migration Kit to speed up the process.
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