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Alternatives · 2026

The best AWS CDK alternatives

The rest of Best Infrastructure as Code Tools, in this site's order: each with what it costs, where it runs and its record score.

1
Cloudify

Cloudify suits organizations moving to public cloud or cloud-native architecture and automating infrastructure and edge resources.

WebWindowsMac+3 $395 a month Record6.3 Visit
2
Terraform

Terraform Community Edition suits practitioners who want a downloadable tool for infrastructure work.

WebWindowsMac+3 $0.99 a month Record6.0 Visit
3
Pulumi

Pulumi is for engineers who want to manage infrastructure in general-purpose languages across supported cloud providers.

WebWindowsMac+3 $40 a month Record5.9 Visit
4
Terramate

Terramate may suit platform teams managing reusable infrastructure patterns across environments.

WebWindowsMac+4 $449 a month Record5.8 Visit
5
AWS CloudFormation

CloudFormation may suit teams managing AWS infrastructure through templates, including CI/CD workflows and deployments spanning accounts or Regions.

iPhone & iPadWebWindows+3 Free plan Record5.7 Visit
6
Terrateam

It suits infrastructure teams using pull-request workflows with Terraform-family tools or Pulumi.

WebLinuxAPI+1 $12,000 a year Record5.6 Visit
7
Kusion

Kusion is intended for application developers and platform engineers who maintain application infrastructure.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record5.0 Visit
8
Terragrunt

Terragrunt may suit infrastructure teams coordinating Terraform or OpenTofu deployments across units and stacks.

WindowsMacLinux+1 $500 a month, billed yearly Record5.0 Visit
9
OpenTofu

OpenTofu suits infrastructure teams defining and managing cloud or on-premises resources through configuration.

WindowsMacLinux+1 Free plan Record4.9 Visit
10 WebLinuxAPI Free plan Record4.9 Visit
11
Spacelift

Spacelift suits organizations seeking infrastructure lifecycle automation, developer self-service, golden paths, guardrails, and governance.

WebAPISelf-hosted $20,000 a year Record4.7 Visit
12
Scalr

Scalr suits platform engineers building and managing platforms at scale while enabling developer self-service.

WebLinuxAPI+1 Free plan Record4.6 Visit
13
Sceptre

Sceptre suits teams deploying AWS CloudFormation through CI/CD, especially across dependent stacks, accounts, or regions.

WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record4.6 Visit
14
env0

env0 suits engineers and teams managing cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code.

WebAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.4 Visit
15
Firefly

Firefly suits enterprise cloud, platform engineering, CloudOps, security, and governance teams.

WebAPISelf-hosted $2,499 a month, billed yearly Record4.4 Visit
16
OpenStack Heat

It is intended for OpenStack end users, operators, and developers managing cloud infrastructure as code.

LinuxAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.3 Visit
17
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes

ACK suits teams managing AWS infrastructure through Kubernetes.

APISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.1 Visit
18 Self-hosted Free plan Record4.1 Visit
19 Self-hosted Free plan Record4.0 Visit
20
Crossplane

Crossplane suits platform engineering teams building self-hosted control planes on Kubernetes.

Self-hosted Free plan Record4.0 Visit
21 WindowsMacLinux+2 — Record3.8 Visit
22 WebWindowsMac+1 Free plan Record3.4 Visit
23 WebAPI — Record3.4 Visit
24 Web Free plan Record3.3 Visit