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Alternatives · 2026

The best Mgmt Config alternatives

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

1
Puppet

Puppet Enterprise is aimed at medium and large organizations managing complex cloud or hybrid environments.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record6.1 Visit
2 WebWindowsLinux+2 $40 a year Record6.1 Visit
3
CFEngine

CFEngine suits administrators managing configuration, security, or compliance across Linux and Windows systems.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record5.8 Visit
4
Chef Infra

Chef Infra fits teams managing mixed operating-system fleets across data centers, cloud, and edge environments.

WindowsMacLinux+2 $59 a year Record5.4 Visit
5
Google Cloud VM Manager

VM Manager suits teams maintaining Windows or Linux VM fleets on Compute Engine that need patching, inventory, or software configuration policies.

WebWindowsLinux+1 Free plan Record5.3 Visit
6
Canonical Landscape

Landscape suits teams administering large or growing Ubuntu environments across desktops, servers, clouds, and embedded devices.

WebLinuxAPI+1 $6,861 a year Record5.2 Visit
7
Uyuni

Uyuni suits administrators managing multiple Linux machines across on-premises or cloud environments.

WebLinuxAPI+1 Free plan Record5.0 Visit
8
config.XO

config.XO may suit administrators managing Windows and Linux configurations across on-premises and internet-connected public-cloud systems.

WebWindowsLinux+1 €449 a month, billed yearly Record4.9 Visit
9
Salt

Salt suits teams that need to configure and orchestrate systems across remote infrastructure.

WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record4.9 Visit
10
OpenDSC

It suits teams managing configuration policies across Windows, Linux, and macOS infrastructure nodes.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record4.8 Visit
11
pyinfra

pyinfra suits users automating infrastructure across servers with Python deploys and inventories.

WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record4.8 Visit
12
cdist

cdist suits administrators who want to configure Linux or macOS hosts from a source computer over SSH.

MacLinuxSelf-hosted Free plan Record4.7 Visit
13
AWS Systems Manager State Manager

It suits AWS customers who want to manage resource configurations and reduce configuration drift.

WebWindowsMac+1 Free plan Record4.6 Visit
14
OpenVox

OpenVox suits teams managing system configuration across supported Linux, macOS, or Windows environments, whether using server-managed agents or…

WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record4.6 Visit
15
Rex

Rex suits administrators who want incremental, agentless automation from a local control host.

WindowsLinux Free plan Record4.6 Visit
16
LCFG

LCFG suits sites managing many Unix systems with varied, frequently changing configurations.

LinuxSelf-hosted Free plan Record4.5 Visit
17
Quattor

Quattor is suited to administrators managing Linux infrastructure who can work with its configuration model and site-specific setup.

LinuxSelf-hosted Free plan Record4.5 Visit
18
Fabric

Fabric suits Python users who need SSH-based command or code execution across individual or multiple hosts.

WindowsMacLinux — Record4.0 Visit
19 WindowsMacLinux+2 — Record4.0 Visit
20 WebWindowsLinux+2 — Record4.0 Visit
21 WindowsMacLinux Free plan Record3.2 Visit
22 Web $6 a month Record3.1 Visit
23 Windows $1,455 a month Record2.7 Visit
24 WindowsMacLinux — Record2.6 Visit