What is Earthly?
A governance platform that automates enforcement of engineering standards, policies, and compliance requirements as guardrails in pull requests and CI/CD workflows. Provides real-time visibility into code quality, testing, deployment practices, and other development lifecycle metrics across teams and services.
Earthly pricing
We don't have Earthly'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 Earthly does
The capabilities that matter for ci/cd tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Self-hosted runners
- -
- Config-as-code pipelines
- ✓
- Matrix / parallel builds
- -
- Container-native builds
- -
- Build caching
- -
- Secrets management
- -
- Deployment environments & approvals
- -
- Reusable actions / marketplace
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (4)
Independently observed- GitHub
- Claude
- OpenAPI
- Swagger
Earthly FAQ
Common questions about Earthly, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Earthly?
A governance platform that automates enforcement of engineering standards, policies, and compliance requirements as guardrails in pull requests and CI/CD workflows. Provides real-time visibility into code quality, testing, deployment practices, and other development lifecycle metrics across teams and services. It is indexed under CI/CD Tools.
Source: https://earthly.dev/lunar/guardrails/ai/plans-dir-exists/claude/
What platforms does Earthly support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Earthly. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Source: https://earthly.dev/lunar/guardrails/ai/plans-dir-exists/claude/
Can Earthly be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Earthly, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://earthly.dev/lunar/guardrails/ai/plans-dir-exists/claude/
What does Earthly integrate with?
We have confirmed 4 integrations for Earthly, including GitHub, Claude, OpenAPI and Swagger. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://earthly.dev/lunar/guardrails/ai/plans-dir-exists/claude/
What security certifications does Earthly have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2 for Earthly. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Earthly not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://earthly.dev
Earthly alternatives
Other ci/cd tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- CircleCICI/CD automation platform for building, testing, and deploying code with workflow automation and cachinghigh · 75%
- GitHub ActionsWorkflow automation service for building, testing, and deploying code within GitHubmedium · 74%
- BuildkiteA CI/CD platform that enables unlimited parallel builds with dynamic pipeline automation and intelligent test managementmedium · 73%
- Argo CDA GitOps tool for managing application deployment and lifecycle on Kubernetes through declarative configurationlow · 43%
- TurborepoBuild system that optimizes development workflows through caching and concurrent task executionlow · 37%
- SemaphoreContinuous integration and deployment platformmedium · 70%
The vioscaleAI 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 Earthly, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 40 | 0.18 | 7.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.05 | 2.7 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 0.04 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 20 | 0.04 | 0.9 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.03 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing transparency | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
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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.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 58% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Hosting: cloud · Marketplace: Yes · Yaml pipelines: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-13 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 4 | mediumsource · 2026-08-13 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Soc2 | Yes | lowsource · 2026-08-03 · 48% |
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