Infrastructure as Code Platforms
Analyze key Infrastructure as Code tools for your engineering workflow. View side-by-side comparisons of capabilities, pricing tiers, and customer reviews.
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Terraform
HashiCorps Infrastructure as Code tool for provisioning cloud resources across multiple providers with declarative HCL syntax.
Free CLI (BSL 1.1), HCP Terraform Free (500 resources), Team $20/user/mo, Enterprise custom. OpenTofu fork is MPL 2.0.
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Pulumi
Modern IaC platform using familiar programming languages (TypeScript, Python, Go, C#) instead of DSL.
Free Individual, Team $40/mo (500 resources), Enterprise $400/mo (2,000 resources), Business Critical custom
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AWS CDK
AWS-native Infrastructure as Code framework: write TypeScript/Python/Java/Go that compiles to CloudFormation. High-level constructs bundle AWS best-practice patterns.
Free (open-source Apache 2.0), pay only for AWS resources provisioned
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Crossplane
Open-source Kubernetes-native control plane for orchestrating infrastructure across clouds and services.
Free (Apache 2.0), Upbound Cloud Team $500/mo, Enterprise custom
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