vioscaleAI
Comparison

Crossplane vs Spacelift

No leader: the top candidate Crossplane has only 0.28 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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Crossplane57
Spacelift47
Score
vioscaleAI score
Crossplane57 / 100low · 28%
Spacelift47 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
Crossplane✓
Spacelift✓
Model
Crossplaneopen_source
Spaceliftfreemium
Price level
Crossplanefree
Spacelifthigh
Starting price
Crossplane–
Spacelift$20,000
Transparent
Crossplane✓
Spacelift✗
Integrations
Count
Crossplane–
Spacelift22
Security
Certifications
Crossplane–
SpaceliftSOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP
Disclosure policy
Crossplane–
Spacelift✓
Fedramp
Crossplane–
Spacelift✓
Scorecard
Crossplane9.6
Spacelift–
Soc2
Crossplane–
Spacelift✓
Trust center
Crossplane–
Spacelifthttps://spacelift.io/security
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Crossplane–
Spacelift✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Crossplane24
Spacelift–
Github stars
Crossplane12,148
Spacelift–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Crossplane76
Spacelift–
Release
History
Crossplane20 items
Spacelift–
License
Spdx
CrossplaneApache-2.0
Spacelift–
Language
Primary
CrossplaneGo
Spacelift–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Crossplane4 items
Spacelift7 items

Capabilities

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

Core
Paradigm
CrossplaneDeclarative DSL
SpaceliftDeclarative DSL
Language
CrossplaneYAML
SpaceliftTerraform HCL, Kubernetes YAML, CloudFormation JSON, Pulumi Python, Ansible
Portability
Multicloud / cloud-agnostic
Crossplane✓
Spacelift✓
Architecture
State management
CrossplaneVendor-managed
SpaceliftVendor-managed
Extensibility
Pluggable provider ecosystem
Crossplane✓
Spacelift✓
Governance
Policy as code
Crossplane✓
Spacelift✓
Ops
Drift detection
Crossplane✓
Spacelift✓
GitOps continuous reconciliation
Crossplane✓
Spacelift✓
Deployment
Managed SaaS offering
Crossplane✗
Spacelift✓
Hosting
CrossplaneSelf-hosted only
SpaceliftCloud + self-hosted
Adoption
Import existing resources
Crossplane-
Spacelift✓
Licensing
Open-source engine
Crossplane✓
Spacelift✗
Ecosystem
CNCF maturity
Crossplane-
Spacelift-

What each one is

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

Crossplane

Crossplane is an extensible, open-source framework for building cloud-native control planes. It provides a declarative approach to orchestrating applications and infrastructure across multiple clouds through pluggable providers and configurable APIs.

Independently observed

Spacelift

Spacelift is an orchestration platform for managing infrastructure-as-code workflows. It supports multiple IaC tools including Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Kubernetes, with policy enforcement, drift detection, and multiple deployment models ranging from cloud-hosted SaaS to on-premises installations.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Crossplane

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Spacelift

from $20000/yrSubscriptionFree tier

Free tier available. Starter+ from $20,000/year. Higher tiers available by quote.

  • FreeFree
    • IaC support
    • VCS integration
    • Resource visualization
    • 1 public worker
  • Starter+$20,000/year, includes 2 public workers and 1-2 private workers
    • IaC support
    • Workflow customization
    • VCS integration
    • Resource visualization
    • Cloud cost estimation
    • +4 more
  • BusinessContact sales
    • All Starter+ features
    • Private provider registry
    • Targeted replans
    • Dedicated Slack support channel
    • Dedicated Customer Success Manager
    • +1 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Business features
    • Audit trail
    • SSO integration with SAML 2.0
    • OIDC API Keys
    • Internal source control system
    • +2 more
  • Enterprise+Contact sales
    • All Enterprise features
    • MFA
    • Self-hosted option
    • FedRAMP authorization
    • On-premises/air-gapped environments
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Crossplane✗
Spacelift✓
CLI
Crossplane✓
Spacelift✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Crossplane✓
Spacelift✓
Self-hosted
Crossplane✓
Spacelift✓
On-premise
Crossplane✗
Spacelift✓
Hybrid
Crossplane✗
Spacelift✓
Air-gapped
Crossplane✗
Spacelift✓

Integrations

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

Crossplane

Not documented yet.

Spacelift

26 total
  • Terraform
  • OpenTofu
  • CloudFormation
  • Pulumi
  • Kubernetes
  • Ansible
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Slack
  • Infracost
  • Checkov
  • Wiz
  • OPA
  • ServiceNow
  • Terragrunt
  • AWS CDK
  • Serverless Framework
  • Bitbucket Cloud
  • Bitbucket Datacenter
  • Azure DevOps
  • +2 more
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Crossplane or Spacelift: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

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