Comparison

CDKTF vs SST

No leader: the top candidate CDKTF has only 0.10 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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CDKTF56
SST50
Score
Vioscale score
CDKTF56 / 100low · 10%updating
SST50 / 100medium · 64%updating
Pricing
Free tier
CDKTF
SST
Price level
CDKTF
SSTfree
Transparent
CDKTF
SST
Integrations
Count
CDKTF
SST14
Reliability
Status page
CDKTF
SST
Adoption
Dependent repos
CDKTF
SST0
Github stars
CDKTF
Package downloads weekly
CDKTF
Activity
Commits last 30d
CDKTF
SST1
Release
Cadence days
CDKTF
SST1
History
CDKTF
License
Spdx
CDKTF
SSTMIT
Language
Primary
CDKTF

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for infrastructure as code tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Paradigm
CDKTFDeclarative DSL
SSTDeclarative DSL
Language
CDKTFTypeScript, Python
SSTTypeScript
Portability
Multicloud / cloud-agnostic
CDKTF
SST
Architecture
State management
CDKTFVendor-managed
SSTVendor-managed
Extensibility
Pluggable provider ecosystem
CDKTF
SST
Governance
Policy as code
CDKTF
SST
Ops
Drift detection
CDKTF
SST
GitOps continuous reconciliation
CDKTF
SST
Deployment
Managed SaaS offering
CDKTF
SST
Hosting
CDKTFSelf-hosted only
SSTCloud only
Adoption
Import existing resources
CDKTF
SST
Licensing
Open-source engine
CDKTF
SST
Ecosystem
CNCF maturity
CDKTF-
SST-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

CDKTF

Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF) allows developers to use familiar programming languages to define and provision infrastructure, providing access to the entire Terraform ecosystem. IMPORTANT: CDKTF is deprecated as of December 10, 2025, and HashiCorp no longer supports or maintains it.

Independently observed

SST

A framework that defines and deploys complete applications with a single TypeScript config file, automating infrastructure setup for databases, APIs, web servers, and cloud services.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

CDKTF

Pricing not documented yet.

SST

Open source
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Windows
CDKTF
SST
CLI
CDKTF
SST
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
CDKTF
SST

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

CDKTF

Not documented yet.

SST

14 total
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS API Gateway
  • AWS RDS Aurora
  • AWS ElastiCache Redis
  • AWS ECS Fargate
  • AWS CloudFront
  • AWS SES
  • AWS Cognito
  • PlanetScale
  • Cloudflare
  • Next.js
  • Astro
  • Rails
  • Hono
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.