# Scalr

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/iac/scalr/

Terraform and OpenTofu automation priced by the run, with no per-user and no per-resource charge.

## Who it suits

A bill that follows activity rather than inventory: $0.99 a run past 50 free a month, no per-user fee and no per-resource charge, with unlimited users and environments on both plans.

Consider something else if You need SSO or an audit trail on paper. Scalr's pricing page lists drift detection, policy enforcement and the registries among core features and names neither — where Spacelift and Pulumi both put them in a named tier.

## iScore

86 / 100 (80% interval 74–97), rank 3 of 4 in iac — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every iac peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/iac/scalr/alternatives/

- Price: 100 (94–100), weight 36%, 1 of 1 criteria scored
- Capabilities: 78 (61–94), weight 29%, 1 of 1 criteria scored
- Trust and compliance: 67 (0–100), weight 21%, 0 of 2 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: audit_logs, sso_saml
- Evidence: 94 (94–94), weight 14%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://scalr.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- What the free plan includes: 50 runs a month with all core features, five concurrent runs, and no time limit or card. The plans differ only in volume. ([source](https://scalr.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Entry paid plan: $0.99 per run past the free 50 a month, with volume discounts — Scalr's own example is 100 runs for $99. There is no monthly plan fee to clear first. ([source](https://scalr.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Per run, and nothing else — the page states there are no per-user fees and no per-resource charges, which is the distinction from Pulumi and from the seat-based tools it competes with. Both plans start with five concurrent runs. ([source](https://scalr.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

### Observability

- Self-hostable: Limited — Self-hosted agents, unlimited on both plans; the control plane is Scalr's ([source](https://scalr.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

### Auth

- Audit logs: Not stated on the pricing page. Scalr lists drift detection, policy enforcement and the module and provider registries among its core features and does not mention an audit trail there. ([source](https://scalr.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

## Compared with

- [Scalr vs Pulumi](https://inetgeek.com/compare/pulumi-vs-scalr/)
- [Scalr vs Spacelift](https://inetgeek.com/compare/spacelift-vs-scalr/)