Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Puppet?
Infrastructure automation and operations platform for managing configuration and infrastructure at scale across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Provides continuous enforcement of desired-state configuration with web-based management interfaces and security compliance capabilities.
Puppet 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 tier (Developer), commercial versions from $0 custom pricing. Contact sales for Enterprise and Advanced.
Core Developer
FreeFree tier for open source Puppet users
- nodes
- <25
- Stable, secure, vendor-supported builds
- Continuous enforcement of desired state
- Flexible agent-based and agentless architecture
- Audit and activity logs
- Configuration correction reports
- Access to 7000+ modules on Puppet Forge
Core Commercial
Contact salesVendor-backed SLAs and commercial support for Puppet Core
- nodes
- 25+
- Vendor-backed SLAs
- Stable, secure software builds and hardened binaries
- Training engagement with Certified Puppet Engineers
- Always-on policy enforcement aligned with CIS Benchmarks and DISA STIGs
- Community-supported patching
- Audit and activity logs
Enterprise
Contact salesIT Operations Platform for automating infrastructure at scale
- Enterprise-ready DevOps solutions
- Automate infrastructure management across large server environments
- Intuitive web-based GUI
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- Accelerate software deployments and streamline IT operations
- Manage consistent infrastructure across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid
- Basic patching and vulnerability remediation
- CI/CD pipeline tooling with team workspaces
- Integration with Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ServiceNow
- Standard or Premium technical support
Enterprise Advanced
Contact salesAdvanced DevSecOps platform for security-conscious enterprises with complex infrastructure
- Predict, control, and respond to infrastructure changes
- Data exports and automated reporting
- AI features powered by Perforce Intelligence
- Security baseline enforcement and vulnerability remediation
- Advanced patching with 3rd party scanner integration (Nessus)
- Natural language interface to Puppet services
- Empower large teams to securely automate and configure infrastructure
- Shorter ticket turnaround and priority support
- Dedicated Technical Account Manager
- Network and Edge device management
What Puppet 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
- Both
- 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
- macOS
- Web
- Linux
- Windows
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Integrations (5)
Independently observed- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Splunk
- ServiceNow
- Nessus
Puppet 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 Puppet, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 92 | 0.12 | 11.3 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.05 | 3.7 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 74 | 0.04 | 2.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 0.06 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 22 | 0.06 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Github Activity | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 0.10 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 0.20 | 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 | 0 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 7,915 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"model":"both","hosting":"both","idempotent":true,"desired_state":true,"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 | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Ruby | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 50% |