The best Terraform Cloud alternative
Replace resource-based billing with Spacelift and get full IaC control, advanced policies, and drift remediation in one platform.
Spacelift vs Terraform Cloud
Pricing model
Multi-IaC Workflow
Policies across various decision points
You can control almost any aspect of the platform through policies
Integrations
Full-Workflow Control
Targeted Runs
Atlantis-style workflow
Resource Management
Custom Tasks
Private Workers
Terraform Provider
VCS Integrations
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
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!
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.
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.
Custom Inputs
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.

Customer empowerment
Terraform resources

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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.”