Available worldwide
What is Rudder?
Infrastructure security automation platform for managing security configurations, patch management, and compliance across Linux and Windows systems in cloud and on-premises environments.
Rudder 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.
Annual per-node licensing. Rudder Core open-source free tier. Contact sales for Enterprise and Corporate Security Suite pricing.
Rudder Enterprise
Contact salesEnterprise version with security configuration management and choice of patch management or policy compliance
- Security configuration management
- Compatible with Linux and Windows
- Real-time infrastructure insights
- Choice of Patch & vulnerability management OR Policy & benchmark compliance
- Unlimited standard support
- Security patches for 18 months
- 6-month update window
Rudder Corporate Security Suite
Contact salesFull version with all Rudder capabilities including all three solutions
- Security configuration management with dashboards and real-time insights
- Patch & vulnerability management including CVE identification and patch campaigns
- Policy & benchmark compliance for CIS, NIST, ISO 27001 and others
- Unlimited premium support
- Guaranteed fix or workaround times
- Security patches for 24 months
- 9-month update window
- Dedicated customer success manager
Add-ons
- Professional Onboarding
- Optional Trainings
- Third-party Tool Integrations
What Rudder 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
- Agent-based
- Push / pull model
- Push
- 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- Linux
- Windows
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (4)
Independently observed- CI/CD
- ticketing
- CMDB
- monitoring
Rudder 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 Rudder, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.12 | 10.0 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 63 | 0.14 | 8.7 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 98 | 0.08 | 7.5 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.05 | 3.7 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 35 | 0.10 | 3.5 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.06 | 3.1 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 54 | 0.04 | 2.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 0.06 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 20 | 0.06 | 1.2 | ✓ |
| 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 | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 700 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"model":"push","hosting":"both","architecture":"agent","desired_state":true,"windows_support":true,"open_source_core":true,"policy_compliance":true,"cloud_provisioning":true,"enterprise_edition":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 4 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Scala | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | GPL-3.0 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"hqCountry":"FR","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 4 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |