2 categories · RankedSpacelift
Spacelift is an infrastructure as code orchestration platform for engineers, used to run multiple IaC tools with shared policy, drift detection and self-service · spacelift.io ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Terraform is first at 49%.
Terraform is first at 58%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Terraform is first at 62%.
Why models recommend it
“Strongly consider a managed IaC platform (Spacelift, Scalr, Env0, Pulumi ESC, etc.) on top of the core tool.”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“A managed IaC orchestration layer like Spacelift, env0, or Terraform Cloud”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
“paired with a GitOps/orchestration tool (like Spacelift, env0, or Atlantis)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · alternative
“Pair OpenTofu/Terraform with tools like Spacelift, env0, or open-source Atlantis”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Avoid for tight budgets: Paid platforms like Terraform Enterprise, Pulumi Team, or Spacelift”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Per-user/seat pricing (Pulumi, Spacelift, Terraform Cloud) can get expensive fast at 500 people.”Kimi K2 · Scale-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Spacelift, over the 59 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | 36 | View → | |
| 54 | 6 | View → | |
| 46 | 20 | View → | |
| 33 | 1 | View → | |
| 28 | 0 | View → | |
| 28 | 0 | View → | |
| 28 | 0 | View → | |
| 27 | 0 | View → | |
| 25 | 1 | View → | |
| 22 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Spacelift →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Spacelift's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- engineers
- Price stated
- $20,000
- Starting price
- $20,000
- Free plan or trial
- Free trial
- Certifications
- FedRAMP
- Customers named
- Brace, Checkout, Lightspeed, 1Password, Figma, Infinite Campus, Checkout.com, Duolingo
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.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
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 43 of the 59 answers that named Spacelift and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
114 of the 134 domain citations in answers naming Spacelift came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 699 | 18 | 2026-09-24 | IaC, MFA | |
| Comparison | 69 | 0 | 2026-06-03 | ||
| Template or tool | 49 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 49 | 0 | 2026-04-14 | ||
| Case study | 46 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 5 | 1 | 2026-10-09 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24How to audit cloud spend blog
- 2026-09-22Ai infrastructure tools blog
- 2026-09-10Iac governance playbook blog
- 2026-09-08Spacelift flows is live blog
- 2026-09-04Terraform cloud contract renewal blog
Events in person
- October 9, 2026AWS Day of Containers LondonLondon · attends
- October 19, 2026 to October 20, 2026DevOpsDays BostonCambridge · attends
- October 21, 2026The Reports of Open Source IaC's Death are Greatly ExaggeratedVirtual · attends
- November 9, 2026IaCConf Connect SLCSalt Lake City · attends
- November 9, 2026 to November 12, 2026KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026Salt Lake City · attends
- November 30, 2026 to December 4, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026Las Vegas · attends
As the event pages on spacelift.io state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page spacelift.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.