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Spacelift

Policy-driven infrastructure orchestration for IaC teams

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★4.5ratingPricing · FreemiumHot
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Data updated 2 November 2026
Opportunity
Moderate
Band
Saturation
Open
Band
Wrapper risk
Low
Band
Momentum
Hot
Market trend
Rating
4.5
of 5 · FalcoScan rating

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The Brief

What Spacelift does

Spacelift is an infrastructure-as-code orchestration platform that manages pipelines across Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi and Kubernetes, and runs Ansible in the same workflow. It is aimed at platform engineering and DevOps teams governing provisioning, and at developers who need self-service infrastructure. Features include stacks with dependencies, spaces, contexts and RBAC, OPA-based policies, drift detection, a resource view, templates and blueprints, dynamic credentials, private workers, an AI assistant and an MCP server. It runs as managed SaaS, self-hosted, on-premises or FedRAMP-authorized SaaS. A free tier covers 2 users and 1 public worker, Starter+ is $20,000 per year, and higher tiers are quoted.

How Spacelift compares with its closest alternatives

All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Spacelift does. All 5 offer an API, as Spacelift does. Spacelift offers a web app. Of the alternatives, 1 offers a web app. Spacelift was founded in 2020; the alternatives were founded between 2016 and 2019, 5 of them earlier.

Market position · Security

How Spacelift compares in Security

Spacelift has moderate opportunity and sits in the bottom third of 361 live Security tools on FalcoScan. Across Security, the average opportunity score is 70.4 and the average saturation score 33. FalcoScan rates Spacelift's own market position as open. 121 of the 361 operating Security tools have hot momentum, and FalcoScan has recorded 1 shutdown in the category.

Spacelift compared with its closest alternatives
ProductOpportunitySaturationPricingPricing fromFree planAPIPlatformsMomentum
SpaceliftFounded 2020ModerateOpenFreemium—YesYesWebHot
Flux CDFounded 2019ModerateOpenFree—YesYesDesktopRising
ArgoCDFounded 2018HighOpenFree—YesYesWeb, DesktopHot
CrossplaneFounded 2018ModerateOpenFree—YesYesDesktopHot
TfsecFounded 2019 · Remote-firstModerateContestedFree—YesYesDesktopRising
CiliumFounded 2016ModerateContestedFree—YesYesDesktopStable

Exact opportunity and saturation scores for all 6 of these, and where each ranks in Security.

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What it ships with

Capabilities & who uses it

The capabilities Spacelift exposes to builders and the verticals it currently serves.

AI Capabilities
Policy EnforcementDrift Detection
Industry Verticals
Technology
Tagged

Spacelift shows up when builders search for these

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Crossplane

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Tfsec

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Questions

Spacelift: common questions

Does Spacelift have a free plan?

As of Oct 2026, Spacelift has a free tier for small teams with 2 users and 1 public worker, and the Starter+ annual subscription is $20,000.

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Is Spacelift free?

Spacelift has a free tier, with paid plans.

What are the best alternatives to Spacelift?

The closest alternatives to Spacelift that are still running, matched on the AI capabilities, uses and audience they share, are Flux CD, ArgoCD, Crossplane, Tfsec, and Cilium.

Is Spacelift still running?

Yes. As of 2 November 2026, FalcoScan lists Spacelift as operating at spacelift.io.

Does Spacelift have an API?

Yes. Spacelift offers an API.

Who is Spacelift for?

Spacelift is built for platform engineers and devops.

How do I sign in to Spacelift?

Sign in on Spacelift's own website, spacelift.io. FalcoScan reviews Spacelift but does not run its accounts, so logins, passwords and billing are handled by Spacelift directly.

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