Backstage
An open source framework for building developer portals
- Also known as
- backstage
What is Backstage?
Backstage is a centralized software catalog and developer platform that helps teams manage their entire software ecosystem, standardize tooling, and enable self-service deployments with best practices built-in.
Backstage pricing
We don't have Backstage's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Backstage does
The capabilities that matter for internal developer platforms, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Portal vs orchestrator
- Portal
- Software / service catalog
- ✓
- Self-service actions / golden paths
- ✓
- Templated service scaffolding
- ✓
- Production-readiness scorecards
- -
- Workload spec / infra abstraction
- -
- Drives infra provisioning
- ✓
- Plugin / extension ecosystem
- ✓
- Public API / webhooks
- ✓
- Cloud/CI/K8s/observability breadth
- External provider integrations for read/write operations
- RBAC + SSO/SAML/SCIM
- -
- Integrated tech docs
- ✓
- Hosting
- Self-hosted only
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Self-hosted
Backstage alternatives
Other internal developer platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- PortThe first vibe coding built for platform engineeringlow · 44%
- Configure8Internal Developer Portal for accelerating velocitylow · 34%
- MassdriverStop Struggling to Scale IaC Adoptionlow · 49%
- KratixThe open source framework for platform orchestrationlow · 27%
- QoveryThe Agentic Infrastructure Platformmedium · 51%
- CortexMission control for the AI software factorymedium · 51%
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 Backstage, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 87 | 32.00 | 2775.0 | ✓ |
| Package Downloads | 51 | 26.00 | 1335.4 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 63 | 18.00 | 1135.8 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 97 | 10.00 | 966.7 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 86 | 5.00 | 427.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 12.00 | 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 | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"self","tech_docs":true,"api_access":true,"scaffolding":true,"provisioning":true,"platform_shape":"portal","plugin_ecosystem":true,"software_catalog":true,"integration_breadth":"External provider integrations for read/write operations","self_service_actions":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | TypeScript | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 99% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 6 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |