# Spacelift

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

Infrastructure orchestration for Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi and more, priced by concurrent private worker rather than by resource or run.

## Who it suits

Orchestrating more than one IaC tool under one policy engine — Terraform, OpenTofu and Pulumi together — with drift detection, policy as code and an audit trail as the product rather than an add-on.

Consider something else if You need to know what it costs. The first paid tier shows $20,000 with no period attached anywhere on the page, and what a plan buys is features and private workers rather than a volume you can forecast.

## iScore

93 / 100 (80% interval 87–100), rank 2 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/spacelift/alternatives/

- Price: 100 (94–100), weight 36%, 1 of 1 criteria scored
- Capabilities: 83 (65–100), weight 29%, 0 of 1 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: self_hostable
- Trust and compliance: 96 (69–100), weight 21%, 2 of 2 criteria scored
- Evidence: 94 (94–94), weight 14%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://spacelift.io/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- What the free plan includes: Described only as 'always free for small teams', with no credit card and no time limit; the page puts no number on what small means. ([source](https://spacelift.io/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Entry paid plan: $20,000 for Starter +, printed with no period attached — the plan card shows the figure beside the tier name and a trial button, and nothing on the page says whether it is monthly or annual. Recorded without a magnitude for that reason. ([source](https://spacelift.io/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: By concurrent private worker: Starter + includes one, and what a plan buys beyond that is features rather than volume — Spaces, workflow customization, policy, drift detection and cloud cost estimation. ([source](https://spacelift.io/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

### Auth

- SAML single sign-on: Supported — SAML 2.0 and OIDC, from the Business tier ([source](https://spacelift.io/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Audit logs: Supported — In the Business tier, alongside 5-30 private workers ([source](https://spacelift.io/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

## Compared with

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