Rudder
Agent-based configuration and compliance management for distributed infrastructure
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Available worldwide
What is Rudder?
A platform for automating IT infrastructure management across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, providing patch management, vulnerability management, compliance verification, and configuration management capabilities.
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
- Pull
- Config language
- YAML
- 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- Web
- Linux
- Windows
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (4)
Independently observed- CI/CD
- ticketing
- CMDB
- monitoring
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Rudder FAQ
Common questions about Rudder, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Rudder?
A platform for automating IT infrastructure management across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, providing patch management, vulnerability management, compliance verification, and configuration management capabilities. It is indexed under Configuration Management Tools.
Source: https://www.rudder.io/pricing/
How much does Rudder cost?
Rudder does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 2 plans (Rudder Enterprise and Rudder Corporate Security Suite), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.rudder.io
What platforms does Rudder support?
Rudder supports the web, Windows, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://www.rudder.io/pricing/
Can Rudder be self-hosted?
Yes. Rudder can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://www.rudder.io/pricing/
What does Rudder integrate with?
We have confirmed 4 integrations for Rudder, including CI/CD, ticketing, CMDB and monitoring. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.rudder.io
What security certifications does Rudder have?
We have independently confirmed ISO 27001 and GDPR for Rudder. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Rudder not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://www.rudder.io
Is Rudder open source?
Yes. Rudder is published under the GPL-3.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.
Where is Rudder available?
Rudder is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in France.
Source: https://www.rudder.io
Rudder alternatives
Other configuration management tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- HCL BigFixAI-powered platform for automated discovery, patching, and compliance management across diverse endpoints and environmentsmedium · 73%
- BOSHAutomation platform for deploying and managing distributed systems across cloud infrastructurehigh · 79%
- SaltEvent-driven automation platform for infrastructure management and configuration at scalehigh · 78%
- Ansiblemedium · 67%
- Landscapemedium · 72%
- SaltStackDistributed infrastructure automation and command execution platformmedium · 71%
Compare Rudder
Side by side against other configuration management tools, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
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 Rudder, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development activity | 63 | 0.12 | 7.6 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.08 | 6.7 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 98 | 0.07 | 6.6 | ✓ |
| Security score | 66 | 0.05 | 3.5 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 35 | 0.09 | 3.0 | ✓ |
| Stars | 54 | 0.03 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 20 | 0.05 | 1.1 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.17 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.08 | 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 · 2026-09-10 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 8 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 65% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Model: pull · Hosting: both · Language: YAML · Idempotent: Yes · Architecture: agent · Desired state: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 4 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Scala | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | GPL-3.0 | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 75% |
Pricing
Release
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
| Iso27001 | Yes | lowsource · 2026-09-10 · 48% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
| Scorecard | 6.6 | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90% |
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2FNormation%2Frudder&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90% |
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