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

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 223 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Spacelift 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/spacelift/alternatives

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

- Terraform: 127
- OpenTofu: 67
- Pulumi: 17
- Ansible: 8
- Terraform/OpenTofu: 3
- Terraform with HCP Terraform: 2

## Infrastructure as code

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Spacelift (Spacelift is #8 of 11 at 0%).

- Terraform: first choice in 46 of those 84
- OpenTofu: first choice in 35 of those 84
- Ansible: first choice in 7 of those 84
- Pulumi: first choice in 6 of those 84
- Terraform/OpenTofu: first choice in 2 of those 84
- AWS SAM: first choice in 1 of those 84
- Azure Bicep: first choice in 1 of those 84
- Terraform with Terraform Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 74 of 84 answers did not name Spacelift (Spacelift is #9 of 13 at 0%).

- Terraform: first choice in 42 of those 74
- OpenTofu: first choice in 19 of those 74
- Pulumi: first choice in 4 of those 74
- Terraform with HCP Terraform: first choice in 2 of those 74
- Ansible: first choice in 1 of those 74
- Terraform/OpenTofu: first choice in 1 of those 74

**Enterprise**: 65 of 84 answers did not name Spacelift (Spacelift is #3 of 14 at 8%).

- Terraform: first choice in 39 of those 65
- OpenTofu: first choice in 13 of those 65
- Pulumi: first choice in 7 of those 65
- AWS CloudFormation: first choice in 1 of those 65
- Terraform with HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise: first choice in 1 of those 65
- Terraform, specifically HCP Terraform / Terraform Enterprise: first choice in 1 of those 65

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