StackStorm
StackStorm connects all your apps, services, and workflows
- Also known as
- stackstorm
What is StackStorm?
Free and open-source automation engine for DevOps that enables event-driven automation through if/then rules and complex workflow orchestration.
StackStorm pricing
We don't have StackStorm'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 StackStorm 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
- Both
- Config language
- Python, custom scripts
- Masterless mode
- -
- Hosting
- Self-hosted only
- Idempotent
- -
- Desired-state declarative
- ✗
- Content registry
- ✓
- Windows support
- -
- Cloud provisioning
- ✓
- Policy / compliance
- ✓
- Enterprise edition
- -
- Open-source core
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Self-hosted
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- OpenStack
- Docker
- Puppet
StackStorm 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 StackStorm, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 67 | 16.00 | 1073.9 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 100 | 6.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 8.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 8.00 | 200.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 8.00 | 138.5 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 0 | 13.00 | 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.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"model":"both","hosting":"self","language":"Python, custom scripts","architecture":"agent","desired_state":false,"content_registry":true,"open_source_core":true,"policy_compliance":true,"cloud_provisioning":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |