The best Terraform Cloud alternative

Replace resource-based billing with Spacelift and get full IaC control, advanced policies, and drift remediation in one platform.

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Joe Hutchinson
"Spacelift has enabled Checkout to scale from a handful of deployments per day to averaging over 500 per day."
Director of Engineering - Developer Platform at Checkout.com

Teams that have successfully migrated to Spacelift:

Spacelift vs Terraform Cloud

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Option 2

Pricing model

Success
Concurrency-based
Danger
Resource-based (RUM)

Multi-IaC Workflow

Success
Terraform
Success
Terragrunt
Success
OpenTofu
Success
Custom Terraform
Success
Kubernetes
Success
Ansible
Success
Cloud Formation
Success
Pulumi
Success
Terraform
Danger
Nothing else

Dependencies Workflow

Success

Nested workflows and passing outputs with stack dependencies

Danger
No

Policies across various decision points

Success

You can control almost any aspect of the platform through policies

Warning
Only the equivalent of plan and approval policies

Integrations

Success
Unlimited
Warning
Limited to Run tasks

Full-Workflow Control

Success
Full control over your workflow
Danger
Limited to what TFC lets you do

Targeted Runs

Success
Native
Warning
Only with env var

Atlantis-style workflow

Success
Plan and apply on pull request
Warning
Plan only

Resource Management

Success
Full inventory management solution including visualization, lifecycle tracking, search, and filtering
Warning
Resource view only per workspace

RBAC

Success

Dynamic per Space

Warning
Static per workspace

Custom Tasks

Success
Run arbitrary tasks on the stack level & task scheduling
Danger
No

Private Workers

Success
Yes
Success
Yes

Terraform Provider

Success
Yes
Success
Yes

VCS Integrations

Success
GitHub
Success
GitLab
Success
BitBucket
Success
Azure DevOps
Success
Raw Git
Success

Github

Success

Gitlab

Success

BitBucket

Success

Azure DevOps

Success

Raw Git

Drift Detection

Success

Yes

Success

Yes

Advanced Scheduling

Success

Yes

Danger

No

SSO (OIDC & SAML)

Success

Yes

Success

Yes

State Management

Success

Managed + optional ability to use other backends

Warning

Managed only

Credential-less integrations with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

Success

Yes

Success

Yes

Flexible Support

Success

Yes

Success

Yes

Private Registry

Success

Yes

Success

Yes

Cost Estimation

Success

Yes

Success

Yes

Why is Spacelift the best alternative to Terraform Cloud?

Predictable pricing model

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!

 

Predictable pricing model
Streamlined migration process

Streamlined migration process

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.

Beyond Terraform

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.

 

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Sophisticated policy tooling 2

Sophisticated policy tooling

Policies across the whole platform – create an unlimited number of policies in all tiers, and attach them to as many stacks as you want.

Sophisticated dependencies inside your workflow

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.

 

Sophisticated dependencies inside your workflow
Custom Inputs

Custom Inputs

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.

GitOps Native

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.

 

GitOps Native
Customer empowerment

Customer empowerment

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.

Terraform resources

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Terraform Cloud/Enterprise Pricing – Tiers Overview 2025

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How to Migrate From Terraform Cloud to Spacelift

How to Migrate From Terraform Cloud to Spacelift

If you want to migrate from Terraform Cloud, we are here to help - learn how you can use our Spacelift Migration Kit to speed up the process.

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Terraform Cloud  Enterprise Workspaces vs. Spacelift Stacks

Terraform Cloud / Enterprise Workspaces vs. Spacelift Stacks

See the differences and similarities between Terraform Cloud workspaces and Spacelift stacks and examples of how to use them.

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What our customers say

“Spacelift has enabled Checkout to scale from a handful of deployments per day to averaging over 500 per day. People in my company who have never used IaC are configuring Spacelift in less than a day and starting to do deployments with no real hand-holding."

“The great thing about Spacelift is it does what we need it to do without getting in the way. Once we had it installed and configured, it faded into the background of our workflow, letting us operate more efficiently with no hassle.”

“We needed a way to create consistent run environments and provide auditing. And we increasingly needed to be able to hand off approvals for runs to developers and security staff. Spacelift has made it simple, so it’s had a positive impact on the company as a whole.”

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