Spacelift
Ship infrastructure as fast as developers code
By Spacelift, Inc. · HQ Redwood City, US · 4.3/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Platform and DevOps teams standardizing Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation and Kubernetes runs in one governed workflow
- Companies that have outgrown Terraform Cloud/Enterprise and need multi-IaC orchestration with consistent policy and visibility
- Regulated or security-sensitive organizations that need self-hosted, on-prem or air-gapped deployment options
- Teams that want developer self-service via Blueprints, Templates and OPA policy-as-code instead of ticket queues
Ideal size: Platform team of 5-50 engineers people · Scale-up or enterprise with a dedicated platform/DevOps function
Not for
- Small teams with a single Terraform configuration and no governance or multi-environment needs
- Buyers looking for a free-forever IaC platform - paid plans start at $20,000 per year
- Teams needing a general-purpose application CI/CD or release-management tool
- Organizations without any infrastructure-as-code footprint
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Under a week to first deploys
~7 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$20,000/yr
Starts at $20,000 · Annual subscription priced by plan and private-worker count; Starter+ from $20,000/yr; Business and Enterprise quote-based; free tier for 2 users
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Unlimited users on Starter+ and above; Free plan includes 2 users
Add-on costs
- Additional private workers are sold as upgrades on top of the plan
- Enterprise+ options such as single-tenant, named TAM, 24/7 escalation and 100+ workers are available upon request
Company & support
Who is behind Spacelift, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Redwood City, US
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatPlan not stated
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsNot listed
- Dedicated account managerPlan not stated
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- 24/7
- Response time
- Not stated
Support levels run Bronze (Starter+) through Silver and Gold. A named Customer Success Manager and dedicated Slack support channel start at the Business plan; 24/7 escalation is available on request on Enterprise+.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Spacelift sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
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Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Spacelift ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Spacelift's homepage describes an AI Infrastructure Assistant that lets users view resources, detect drift and make changes via chat, and an MCP server for AI-driven self-service. No model provider or training-data policy is disclosed on the pages reviewed.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Not recorded — ask the vendor
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- AI pricing
- Not recorded
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Spacelift is an IaC orchestration platform for platform and DevOps teams. It standardizes Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Kubernetes and Ansible runs in one governed workflow with stacks, dependencies, drift detection, OPA policy-as-code and immutable audit trails. It deploys as managed SaaS, self-hosted, on-prem or air-gapped. Paid plans start at $20,000/year with unlimited users; an AI assistant and MCP server support self-service infrastructure requests.
Frequently asked questions
How is Spacelift priced?
Plans are annual subscriptions priced in USD by plan and by private-worker count. A free tier covers 2 users and 1 public worker; Starter+ starts at $20,000 per year with unlimited users and 1-2 private workers. Business, Enterprise and Enterprise+ are quote-based, and all plans can be purchased through the AWS and Azure marketplaces. Multiyear subscriptions are available for Starter+ and above.
What does onboarding look like?
Onboarding is largely self-serve: connect a version-control system and cloud accounts, set up dynamic credentials, then model environments as stacks. Customers state that people who have never used IaC were configuring Spacelift in less than a day. A proof-of-concept license converts directly into a full license without further setup, and Enhanced Onboarding support is included on Enterprise plans.
Which IaC and cloud tools does it support?
Spacelift supports Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Ansible, AWS CDK and Serverless. Source control integrations cover GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, Bitbucket Cloud, Bitbucket Datacenter and Azure DevOps, with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and OIDC identity integrations for short-lived credentials.
Does Spacelift offer self-hosted or air-gapped deployment?
Yes. Spacelift can run as fully managed SaaS, self-hosted in your own cloud, on-premises, or as FedRAMP-authorized SaaS. Self-hosted, on-prem and air-gapped options sit on the Enterprise+ plan. Private workers run inside your own cloud environment, and data is encrypted at rest and in transit.
How does Spacelift help with compliance and audit?
It provides OPA policy-as-code guardrails, SAML 2.0 single sign-on, MFA and an immutable audit trail of every infrastructure change with who made it and why. Note that Spacelift's public security page does not list specific certifications such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, so buyers should request details through its Trust Center.
What AI capabilities does Spacelift have?
Spacelift describes an AI Infrastructure Assistant that can view resources, detect drift and make changes through chat, and an MCP server so AI tooling can drive self-service infrastructure requests. Blueprints and Templates provide no-code paths for developer self-service. No model provider or data-training policy is disclosed on the pages reviewed.