What is Ansible?
Ansible is an open source IT automation engine that automates provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and many other IT processes. It is free to use, and the project benefits from the experience and intelligence of its thousands of contributors.
Ansible pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free open-source version or paid enterprise platform
Ansible (Open Source)
FreeFree open-source project
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Contact salesEnterprise platform with security hardening and support
What Ansible does
The capabilities that matter for configuration management tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Architecture
- -
- Push / pull model
- -
- Config language
- -
- Masterless mode
- -
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Idempotent
- -
- Desired-state declarative
- -
- Content registry
- ✓
- Windows support
- ✓
- Cloud provisioning
- ✓
- Policy / compliance
- ✓
- Enterprise edition
- ✓
- Open-source core
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (22)
Independently observed- Terraform
- VMware
- ServiceNow
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- Cisco
- Juniper
- F5
- HPE
- Dell Technologies
- NetApp
- SAP
- Pure
- Palo Alto Networks
- CyberArk
- HashiCorp Vault
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- Infoblox
- Aruba
- Windows
Ansible alternatives
Other configuration management tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- pyinfraagentless infrastructure automation, in plain Pythonlow · 31%
- NixOS / NixDeclarative builds and deploymentslow · 22%
- HabitatOpen source automation solution for defining, packaging, and delivering applications to any environmentlow · 41%
- OpenVoxThe modern open source implementation of the world's most capable configuration management platformlow · 22%
- Puppet Boltlow · 16%
- Rexthe friendly automation frameworklow · 31%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Ansible, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package Downloads | 84 | 0.20 | 16.8 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.12 | 10.0 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 46 | 0.14 | 6.4 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.05 | 3.7 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 91 | 0.04 | 3.5 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 39 | 0.06 | 2.4 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 0.06 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Release Cadence | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 0.10 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 28 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","windows_support":true,"content_registry":true,"open_source_core":true,"policy_compliance":true,"cloud_provisioning":true,"enterprise_edition":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 22 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Python | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 98% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | GPL-3.0 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 67% |