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Index › IT › Products › CDK for Terraform · November 2026 Edition

Infrastructure as code · Named, not ranked

CDK for Terraform

–Too few to rank

7/14Models named it

0First choices

10Warnings

November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.

Ranked inInfrastructure as code #38 mid-market

What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. CDK for Terraform has 7.

Why models recommend it

No positive label carried a quote.

What gives them pause

“CDK for Terraform (CDKTF) — ✅ Actively deprecated ... Don't start new projects with it.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning

“CDK for Terraform (CDKTF): Avoid for new projects. HashiCorp deprecated it”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning

“Imperative/Programming-Language-Based Tools like Pulumi (or CDK for Terraform) ... Potential for runtime errors during deployment.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning

“Why be cautious: It adds a complex abstraction layer.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as CDK for Terraform, over the 13 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

Product	Named together	Picked instead
Terraform	13	5	View →
OpenTofu	11	2	View →
Ansible	11	1	View →
Pulumi	10	2	View →
AWS CloudFormation	9	0	View →
Crossplane	7	0	View →
Azure Bicep	6	0	View →
Puppet	6	0	View →
SaltStack	6	0	View →
AWS CDK	5	0	View →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named CDK for Terraform came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 11 of the 13 answers that named CDK for Terraform and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

developer.hashicorp.com5

opentofu.org4

daily.dev3

docs.aws.amazon.com3

github.com3

pulumi.com3

trendaisecurity.com3

cheatsheetseries.owasp.org2

computingforgeeks.com2

docs.ansible.com2

No domain is on file for CDK for Terraform, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Infrastructure_as_Code_Security_Cheat_Sheet.html2

computingforgeeks.com/best-infrastructure-as-code-iac-cloud-automation-tools2

daily.dev/blog/top-7-iac-pitfalls-risks-challenges-solutions2

developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cdktf/release2

docs.aws.amazon.com/pdfs/prescriptive-guidance/latest/choose-iac-tool/choose-iac-tool.pdf2

duplocloud.com/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools2

github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/main/LICENSE2

hackernoon.com/building-multi-cloud-security-guardrails-with-policy-as-code-iam-and-automa2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on CDK for Terraform across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Warning	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0