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Comparison

Crossplane vs Terramate

No leader: the top candidate Crossplane has only 0.31 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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Crossplane70
Terramate53
Score
Vioscale score
Crossplane70 / 100low · 31%updating
Terramate53 / 100low · 39%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Crossplane✓
Terramate✓
Model
Crossplanecommercial
Terramatefreemium
Price level
Crossplanefree
Terramatelow
Transparent
Crossplane✓
Terramate✗
Integrations
Count
Crossplane–
Terramate10
Security
Scorecard
Crossplane9.6
Terramate–
Vulnerabilities
Adoption
Dependent repos
Crossplane24
Terramate0
Github stars
Crossplane11,979
Terramate3,621
Activity
Commits last 30d
Crossplane100
Terramate11
Release
Cadence days
Crossplane–
Terramate7
History
Crossplane20 items
Terramate20 items
License
Spdx
CrossplaneApache-2.0
TerramateMPL-2.0
Language
Primary
CrossplaneGo
TerramateGo
Market
Availability
Crossplane–
TerramateAvailable worldwide

Capabilities

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

Core
Paradigm
CrossplaneDeclarative DSL
TerramateDeclarative DSL
Language
CrossplaneYAML
TerramateHCL
Portability
Multicloud / cloud-agnostic
Crossplane✓
Terramate✓
Architecture
State management
CrossplaneVendor-managed
TerramateSelf-managed
Extensibility
Pluggable provider ecosystem
Crossplane✓
Terramate✓
Governance
Policy as code
Crossplane✓
Terramate✓
Ops
Drift detection
Crossplane✓
Terramate✓
GitOps continuous reconciliation
Crossplane✓
Terramate✓
Deployment
Managed SaaS offering
Crossplane✗
Terramate✓
Hosting
CrossplaneSelf-hosted only
TerramateCloud + self-hosted
Adoption
Import existing resources
Crossplane-
Terramate✓
Licensing
Open-source engine
Crossplane✓
Terramate✓
Ecosystem
CNCF maturity
Crossplane-
Terramate-

What each one is

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

Crossplane

A Kubernetes-based platform engineering framework that allows organizations to create declarative APIs exposing infrastructure capabilities. It enables safe self-service provisioning for users, automation systems, and AI agents while enforcing policies and governance through a centralized control plane.

Independently observed

Terramate

An open-source orchestration and code generation platform that enables teams to manage infrastructure-as-code at scale, providing structure, governance, and self-service capabilities for developers and platform engineers.

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 ↗

Terramate

from $449/moSubscriptionFree tier14-day trial

From free to $449/month. Free Community plan with 14-day free trial for Teams.

  • CommunityFree
    • Code Management
    • Deployment Workflows
    • Pull Request Previews
    • Drift Management
    • Observability & Visibility
    • +10 more
  • Teams$449/month. Unlimited users, 5000 resources, 90-day retention. 14-day free trial.
    • All Community features
    • Asset Management
    • Policies
    • CIS Benchmarks
    • DORA Metrics
    • +4 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Teams features
    • SSO SAML 2.0
    • RBAC
    • Audit Logs
    • Private Source Control System integration
    • +5 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
CLI
Crossplane–
Terramate✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Crossplane✓
Terramate✓
Self-hosted
Crossplane✓
Terramate✓

Integrations

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

Crossplane

Not documented yet.

Terramate

10 total
  • Terraform
  • OpenTofu
  • Terragrunt
  • Kubernetes
  • GitHub
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • BitBucket Pipelines
  • Azure DevOps
  • Slack
Independently observed

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