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Comparison

SST vs Terramate

No clear leader: Terramate (53.2) and SST (50.0) 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.

SST full profile →Terramate full profile →
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SST50
Terramate53
Score
Vioscale score
SST50 / 100medium · 64%
Terramate53 / 100low · 39%
Pricing
Free tier
SST✓
Terramate✓
Model
Price level
SSTfree
Terramatelow
Transparent
SST✓
Terramate✗
Integrations
Count
SST14
Terramate10
Security
Vulnerabilities
Adoption
Dependent repos
SST0
Terramate0
Github stars
SST26,260
Terramate3,621
Package downloads weekly
SST844,585
Terramate–
Activity
Commits last 30d
SST1
Terramate11
Release
Cadence days
SST1
Terramate7
History
SST20 items
Terramate20 items
License
Spdx
SSTMIT
TerramateMPL-2.0
Language
Primary
SSTTypeScript
TerramateGo
Market
Availability
SST–
TerramateAvailable worldwide

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

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

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.

SST

Open source
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
Windows
SST✓
Terramate✗
CLI
SST✓
Terramate✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
SST✓
Terramate✓
Self-hosted
SST✗
Terramate✓

Integrations

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

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

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.