# Atlantis vs Terraform

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Terraform

| Attribute | Atlantis | Terraform |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 54.8 (41% (low)) | 64.2 (54% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 40 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 2 | 1,108 |
| adoption.github_stars | 9,254 | 49,541 |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A system that orchestrates Terraform deployments via pull request workflows, providing safety checks, approval gates, and comprehensive audit logging for infrastructure changes across multiple Git platforms. | Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you build, change, and version infrastructure safely and efficiently. It manages low-level components like compute, storage, and networking as well as high-level components like DNS entries and SaaS features. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"self","language":"HCL","paradigm":"declarative_dsl","multicloud":true,"policy_as_code":true,"drift_detection":true,"open_source_engine":true,"provider_ecosystem":true,"gitops_reconciliation":true,"managed_saas_offering":false}` | `{"language":"HCL","paradigm":"declarative_dsl","multicloud":true,"policy_as_code":true,"import_existing":true,"state_management":"vendor_managed","open_source_engine":true,"provider_ecosystem":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 10 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Bitbucket"},{"name":"Azure DevOps"},{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"Terraform Cloud/Enterprise"},{"name":"Slack"}]` | `[{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform"},{"name":"Oracle Cloud"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Consul"},{"name":"Packer"},{"name":"Vault"},{"name":"Boundary"},{"name":"GitHub"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | Go |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.runatlantis.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T22:59:47.477Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.terraform.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T09:37:57.093Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| release.cadence_days | 31 | 6 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 7.4 | 6.2 |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":4,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Frunatlantis%2Fatlantis&per_page=100","last_12m":2,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | `{"count":2,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fhashicorp%2Fterraform&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` |

## Capabilities (Infrastructure as Code Tools)

| Capability | Atlantis | Terraform |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Paradigm | Declarative DSL | Declarative DSL |
| Language | HCL | HCL |
| **Portability** |  |  |
| Multicloud / cloud-agnostic | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| State management | - | Vendor-managed |
| **Extensibility** |  |  |
| Pluggable provider ecosystem | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Governance** |  |  |
| Policy as code | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Drift detection | ✓ | - |
| GitOps continuous reconciliation | ✓ | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Managed SaaS offering | ✗ | - |
| Hosting | Self-hosted only | - |
| **Adoption** |  |  |
| Import existing resources | - | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Open-source engine | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Ecosystem** |  |  |
| CNCF maturity | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:09:35.371Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*