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Comparison

Spacelift vs SST

No clear leader: SST (51.5) and Spacelift (46.9) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. 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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Spacelift47
SST52
Score
vioscaleAI score
Spacelift47 / 100medium · 74%
SST52 / 100medium · 55%
Pricing
Free tier
Spacelift✓
SST✓
Model
Price level
Spacelifthigh
SSTfree
Starting price
Spacelift$20,000
SST–
Transparent
Spacelift✗
SST✓
Integrations
Count
Spacelift22
SST14
Security
Certifications
SpaceliftSOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP
SST–
Disclosure policy
Spacelift✓
SST–
Fedramp
Spacelift✓
SST–
Soc2
Spacelift✓
SST–
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Spacelift✓
SST–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Spacelift–
SST0
Github stars
Spacelift–
SST26,353
Package downloads weekly
Spacelift–
SST1,193,915
Activity
Commits last 30d
Spacelift–
SST1
Release
Cadence days
Spacelift–
SST1
History
Spacelift–
SST20 items
License
Spdx
Spacelift–
SSTMIT
Language
Primary
Spacelift–
SSTTypeScript
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Spacelift7 items
SST6 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

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

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.

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 ↗

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

Integrations

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

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

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
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Spacelift or SST: which one depends on you

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