# Pulumi vs Terramate

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Pulumi

| Attribute | Pulumi | Terramate |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 69.4 (75% (high)) | 52.9 (36% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 19 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 2,143 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 25,758 | 3,636 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 1,440,025 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A platform for defining and managing cloud infrastructure using TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, or HCL instead of domain-specific languages, with built-in policy enforcement, compliance tracking, and AI-powered resource discovery. It is indexed under Infrastructure as Code Tools.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","question":"What is Pulumi?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pulumi is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Paid editions are also offered: Team Edition, Enterprise and Business Critical, priced on request. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","question":"Is Pulumi free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pulumi supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","question":"What platforms does Pulumi support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Pulumi can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","question":"Can Pulumi be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 12 integrations for Pulumi, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, GitHub and Slack, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","question":"What does Pulumi integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 for Pulumi. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Pulumi not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/tutorials/eval-compliance-terraform/","question":"What security certifications does Pulumi have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Pulumi is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi","question":"Is Pulumi open source?","confidence":0.99},{"answer":"Pulumi is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","question":"Where is Pulumi available?","confidence":0.5}]` | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under Infrastructure as Code Tools.","source":"https://terramate.io","question":"What is Terramate?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Terramate is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MPL-2.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $449 per month. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://terramate.io","question":"Is Terramate free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Terramate supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://terramate.io","question":"What platforms does Terramate support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Terramate can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://terramate.io","question":"Can Terramate be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 9 integrations for Terramate, including Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, BitBucket Pipelines and Azure DevOps, plus 1 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://terramate.io","question":"What does Terramate integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Terramate is published under the MPL-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/terramate-io/terramate","question":"Is Terramate open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An infrastructure-as-code system that lets you define, deploy, and manage cloud resources across multiple providers using Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, .NET, and YAML, with declarative provisioning, policy enforcement, and integrated state management. | Terramate coordinates and manages infrastructure projects built with popular tools like Terraform and Kubernetes. It offers both an open-source CLI and a cloud service with features for detecting infrastructure drift, automating deployments through GitOps workflows, and tracking resources across teams and environments. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"cloud","language":"TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, YAML","paradigm":"general_language","multicloud":true,"policy_as_code":true,"drift_detection":true,"import_existing":true,"state_management":"vendor_managed","open_source_engine":true,"provider_ecosystem":true,"gitops_reconciliation":false,"managed_saas_offering":true}` | `{"hosting":"both","language":"HCL","paradigm":"declarative_dsl","multicloud":true,"policy_as_code":true,"drift_detection":true,"import_existing":true,"state_management":"self_managed","open_source_engine":true,"provider_ecosystem":true,"gitops_reconciliation":true,"managed_saas_offering":true}` |
| integrations.count | 20 | 10 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"CloudFormation"},{"name":"Azure Resource Manager"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"container","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"GitHub","native":true,"category":"vcs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Slack","native":false,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Backstage","native":true,"category":"devops","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"npm","native":false,"category":"package_manager","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"PyPI","native":false,"category":"package_manager","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"NuGet","native":false,"category":"package_manager","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Helm","native":true,"category":"cloud-native"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager","native":true,"category":"secrets"},{"name":"Azure Key Vault","native":true,"category":"secrets"},{"name":"Vault","native":true,"category":"secrets"},{"name":"1Password","native":true,"category":"secrets"},{"name":"Cloudflare","native":true,"category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"MongoDB","native":true,"category":"database"},{"name":"Snowflake","native":true,"category":"database"},{"name":"GitHub Actions","native":true,"category":"ci-cd"},{"name":"GitLab Pipelines","native":true,"category":"ci-cd"},{"name":"Jenkins","native":true,"category":"ci-cd"},{"name":"CircleCI","native":true,"category":"ci-cd"},{"name":"Atlassian Bitbucket","native":true,"category":"ci-cd"},{"name":"External Secrets Operator","native":true,"category":"secrets"},{"name":"Secrets Store CSI Driver","native":true,"category":"secrets"}]` | `[{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"OpenTofu"},{"name":"Terragrunt"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"GitLab CI/CD"},{"name":"BitBucket Pipelines"},{"name":"Azure DevOps"},{"name":"Slack"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | Go |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | MPL-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Team Edition","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Metered pricing per resource-hour and deployment-minute. Contact sales for bulk discounts on annual commitments over $20,000.","currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T11:12:11.575Z"}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Community","summary":"Free forever. Up to 2 users, 1000 resources, 30-day data retention.","features":["Code Management","Deployment Workflows","Pull Request Previews","Drift Management","Observability & Visibility","Environments and Stacks","Dependencies","Unlimited Workflows","CI/CD Integration","Orchestration","GitOps","Policy as Code (OPA)","Organizations (Multitenancy)","OIDC Integration","Community Support via Discord"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For individual DevOps and Platform Engineers to get started.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"2","resources":"1000","data_retention_days":"30"}},{"free":false,"name":"Teams","summary":"$449/month. Unlimited users, 5000 resources, 90-day retention. 14-day free trial.","features":["All Community features","Asset Management","Policies","CIS Benchmarks","DORA Metrics","Incident Management","Email and Chat Support","Dedicated shared Slack Channel","24-hour support response time"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":449,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For SMBs and pioneering DevOps and Platform teams to get started.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"unlimited","resources":"5000","data_retention_days":"90"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing. Custom resources/retention. 4-hour support, PoC program, Cloud and Cloud-prem deployment options.","features":["All Teams features","SSO SAML 2.0","RBAC","Audit Logs","Private Source Control System integration","Cloud and Cloud-prem deployment options","4-hour support response time","PoC Program","Onboarding and Training","Dedicated Support and Account Manager"],"description":"For businesses looking to scale their IaC practices.","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"users":"unlimited","resources":"custom","data_retention_days":"custom"}}],"summary":"From free to $449/month. Free Community plan with 14-day free trial for Teams.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://terramate.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T21:12:58.044Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":449,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | quote | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.cadence_days | 5 | 6 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 7.1 | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | https://www.pulumi.com/tutorials/eval-compliance-terraform/ | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=%40pulumi%2Fpulumi&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=nixpkgs&package_name=terramate&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Infrastructure as Code Tools)

| Capability | Pulumi | Terramate |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Paradigm | General language | Declarative DSL |
| Language | TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, YAML | HCL |
| **Portability** |  |  |
| Multicloud / cloud-agnostic | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| State management | Vendor-managed | Self-managed |
| **Extensibility** |  |  |
| Pluggable provider ecosystem | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Governance** |  |  |
| Policy as code | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Drift detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| GitOps continuous reconciliation | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Managed SaaS offering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Adoption** |  |  |
| Import existing resources | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Open-source engine | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Ecosystem** |  |  |
| CNCF maturity | - | - |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:05:52.911Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*