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Spacelift
VerifiedDevOps · spacelift.io
Overview
Spacelift is an infrastructure-as-code management and CI/CD orchestration platform for Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Kubernetes. It adds policy-as-code governance (OPA/Rego), drift detection, self-hosted private workers, and pull-request-native plan/apply workflows on top of existing IaC. It targets teams that need governance, auditability, and scale beyond open-source PR automation tools.
The problem Spacelift solves
Teams running Terraform/OpenTofu at scale struggle to enforce who can approve and apply infrastructure changes, catch configuration drift, and keep an auditable trail across many repos and IaC tools. Spacelift centralizes IaC CI/CD with OPA policy-as-code, drift detection, PR-native plan/apply workflows, and self-hosted private workers. The tradeoffs are a real learning curve (contexts, Rego) and worker/concurrency-based pricing that can get costly beyond small teams.
Decision context
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- Published starting price: Free. Confirm user, usage, and feature limits for the plan you would actually buy.
- Deployment: cloud, on_premise. Check security, data-residency, and access requirements for every team that will use it.
- Verified integrations include Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Ansible. Validate sync direction and plan limits for the connections that matter.
- This record was last checked on 7/21/2026; pricing and features can change.
How to evaluate Spacelift
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Workflow fit
The record describes it as a fit for Platform/DevOps teams standardizing multi-tool IaC CI/CD across many repos and stacks, Organizations needing policy-as-code governance, approval controls, and audit trails over Terraform/OpenTofu changes, Regulated or enterprise environments requiring self-hosted/private workers, SSO/SAML, or FedRAMP/air-gapped deployment. Check that this context matches the volume, roles, and processes your team needs it to support.
Pilot questions
- Can Spacelift complete the critical workflow without manual work outside the product?
- Do the recorded connections (Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Pulumi) support the sync direction, permissions, and volume we need?
- What user, usage, storage, support, or security limits appear after the headline starting price?
Evidence and freshness
This record was checked on 7/21/2026. That date tells you when the record was reviewed, not that the vendor has left its terms unchanged since then.
Best for
- Platform/DevOps teams standardizing multi-tool IaC CI/CD across many repos and stacks
- Organizations needing policy-as-code governance, approval controls, and audit trails over Terraform/OpenTofu changes
- Regulated or enterprise environments requiring self-hosted/private workers, SSO/SAML, or FedRAMP/air-gapped deployment
Not a fit if
- Small teams or individuals wanting a free or low-cost tool, given the ~$20k/year entry paid tier
- Teams wanting a general-purpose observability/monitoring or on-call stack (Spacelift is IaC-focused, not APM/logging)
Why it’s listed
- Leading dedicated IaC orchestration platform supporting multiple IaC tools (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Ansible) rather than a single ecosystem
- Strong governance story: OPA/Rego policy-as-code, immutable audit trail, RBAC, and drift detection that open-source PR tools like Atlantis lack
- First IaC orchestration platform to receive FedRAMP authorization, plus SOC 2 Type II
Pricing
Free
FreeAlways-free plan for small teams with no credit card or time limit.
- 2 users
- 1 public worker
- Core IaC support
- VCS integration
- Policy as Code engine
Starter +
$20,000 per year (flat)Entry paid tier with unlimited users, billed as a flat annual subscription.
- Unlimited users
- 2 public workers (private workers available)
- Spaces & workflow customization
- Drift detection
- Cost estimation
- Terraform provider
Business
Custom pricingAdds blueprints, private provider registry, advanced scheduling, and dedicated support.
- Everything in Starter +
- Blueprints & templates
- Advanced scheduling
- Private provider registry
- Dedicated Slack support
- 3 private workers
Enterprise
Custom pricingAdds enterprise security and identity controls for larger organizations.
- Everything in Business
- Audit trail
- SSO/SAML 2.0
- OIDC API keys
- MFA
- 5-30 private workers
Enterprise +
Custom pricingSelf-hosted/on-prem and regulated-environment deployment options.
- Everything in Enterprise
- Self-hosted / on-prem
- Air-gapped deployment
- FedRAMP compliance
- 12-30 private workers
Features
Integrations
Security & compliance
Pros & cons
Pros
- Policy-as-code engine (OPA/Rego) gives fine-grained control over who can plan/approve/apply infrastructure changes
- Thorough documentation with working examples that reduce need for support tickets
- Solid automation surface: GraphQL API, webhooks, and a Terraform provider to manage Spacelift itself as code
- Terraform plan/apply logs are surfaced directly on the pull request
Cons
- Learning curve around core concepts like contexts and stacks during onboarding
- Writing OPA/Rego policies is not beginner-friendly and policy-failure error messages can be unclear
- Per-worker / concurrency-based pricing can become expensive as parallel run needs grow
- Entry paid tier (~$20k/year) is a steep step up from the limited free plan
What we found
On G2 Spacelift averages 4.9/5 across 12 reviews, with reviewers praising its OPA policy-as-code governance, thorough documentation, and PR-visible plan/apply logs. Community and review-site feedback recurringly flags a learning curve (contexts, Rego/OPA) and that per-worker/concurrency-based pricing can get expensive at scale.
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