# Pulumi alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 84 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Pulumi holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/pulumi/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- OpenTofu: 20
- Terraform: 17
- Ansible: 4
- Spacelift: 3
- AWS CloudFormation: 2
- AWS SAM: 1

## Infrastructure as code

**Small business**: 29 of 84 answers did not name Pulumi (Pulumi is #3 of 11 at 8%).

- OpenTofu: first choice in 8 of those 29
- Ansible: first choice in 4 of those 29
- Terraform: first choice in 4 of those 29
- AWS SAM: first choice in 1 of those 29
- Azure Bicep: first choice in 1 of those 29

**Mid-market**: 27 of 84 answers did not name Pulumi (Pulumi is #3 of 13 at 6%).

- OpenTofu: first choice in 7 of those 27
- Terraform: first choice in 6 of those 27

**Enterprise**: 28 of 84 answers did not name Pulumi (Pulumi is #4 of 14 at 3%).

- Terraform: first choice in 7 of those 28
- OpenTofu: first choice in 5 of those 28
- Spacelift: first choice in 3 of those 28
- AWS CloudFormation: first choice in 2 of those 28

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