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CloudBolt vs Spacelift comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
Organizations saw 60% savings and 50% faster deliveries with CloudBolt, benefiting from automation and reduced support costs.
Sentiment score
5.6
Spacelift streamlines deployment, cuts costs, and simplifies operations, proving valuable for larger organizations despite some smaller ones finding it unnecessary.
We are just pushing code from Git to GitHub, which then sends it to Spacelift, checking for drifts and starting continuous deployment.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The metrics show that fewer employees are needed, money is saved based on past experiences with different cloud management or Infrastructure as Code management tools, and efficiency has improved significantly in terms of Infrastructure as Code deployment.
Senior Cloud In Meeting at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Anything that reduces the amount of work needed to do repetitive tasks is a bonus.
Senior Devops Engineer at SAM Seamless
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.4
CloudBolt offers responsive, efficient customer service with excellent support, fast issue resolution, and highly praised technical assistance.
Sentiment score
5.1
Spacelift's customer service is praised for Slack responsiveness, though some suggest email support improvements; generally rated 7-9/10.
I have asked them various queries, and they provided perfect solutions along with good detailed documentation.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The customer support is fantastic as they reply over Slack immediately and get to work on a solution whenever I need them.
Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The SLO and SLA being really fast to answer.
Dev Ops Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.2
CloudBolt is scalable for varied infrastructures but needs blueprint improvements; ratings range from seven to nine out of ten.
Sentiment score
5.5
Spacelift efficiently handles growing server demands and multiple Terraform projects, praised for scalability, though on-premises may need adjustments.
Spacelift's scalability is very good as it scales very well with the environment because I can add agents to it with more workload, so it's quite excellent.
Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Spacelift can handle increased workloads well, managing more servers as our organization grows, and it is indeed scalable.
Lead Dev Ops Engineer at Red Nucleus Solutions LLC
Based on the requests and the Linux Docker machines I provision, it becomes more stable, and the runs happen very quickly.
Senior Cloud In Meeting at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
CloudBolt is stable and reliable, with effective support, though some face issues due to memory constraints and updates.
Sentiment score
8.5
Spacelift is highly stable and reliable, with users experiencing no issues and finding it easy to use.
 

Room For Improvement

CloudBolt needs improvements in cost optimization, UI design, container support, SaaS management, billing, integrations, and feature workflows.
Spacelift users seek improved onboarding, clearer pricing, better integrations, enhanced UI, AI support, and simpler configuration and management.
To improve CloudBolt, I believe the user experience needs enhancement as some users find it somewhat dated compared to newer cloud management platforms.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
It can improve areas in scalability and integrate some open-source tools.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The engineering team behind Spacelift is very responsive whenever I submit a feature request, and there's a very good chance I would see it within the next year.
Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The OPA policy writing is not very beginner-friendly either, and the error messages when a policy fails are not always clear.
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

CloudBolt offers scalable pricing per server, with discounts for upfront purchases, appealing to automation-focused teams despite varying costs.
Enterprise users find Spacelift cost-effective for team use, with a free 14-day trial but no on-premises installation.
The next standard plan costs three hundred ninety-nine dollars per month for ten concurrent users.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The spaces have been a major aspect of managing things, and the contacts for the resources I provide internally in Spacelift are quite affordable, effective, and useful.
Senior Cloud In Meeting at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
My experience with pricing shows that the setup cost is reasonable, and the licensing also seems reasonable.
Lead Dev Ops Engineer at Red Nucleus Solutions LLC
 

Valuable Features

CloudBolt excels in governance, deployment, provisioning, multi-cloud management, integration, cost management, efficiency, and supports major cloud providers.
Spacelift enhances multi-cloud infrastructure management with Git integration, policies as code, easy collaboration, and efficient deployment features.
From an integration standpoint, CloudBolt works well with various public and private cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and Nutanix, as well as different virtualization software, infrastructure as code templates such as Ansible and Terraform, ITSM tools such as ServiceNow, and CMDB platforms.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
We can apply those policies in Spacelift, and the RBAC and access policies features are really excellent in Spacelift, which we do not find in any of the other competitor tools.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Spacelift has positively impacted my organization by reducing manpower, as it reduced the efforts of resources in the team, where previously a job done by two or three engineers can now be easily managed by one engineer using Spacelift.
Technical Lead at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
You create so many different modules and so many different versions. Having a very easy way to navigate and search through them all, and the fact that you can actually see the commit ID and description really helps in discovering what was actually in that version of the module.
Senior Devops Engineer at SAM Seamless
 

Categories and Ranking

CloudBolt
Ranking in Cloud Management
20th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (32nd)
Spacelift
Ranking in Cloud Management
14th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
AI Software Development (20th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of CloudBolt is 1.9%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spacelift is 1.3%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Spacelift1.3%
CloudBolt1.9%
Other96.8%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized self-service has unified hybrid clouds and has improved governance and cost control
The best features CloudBolt offers include governance and policy control, allowing security teams to set up their specific guardrails with governance at scale. Multi or hybrid cloud abstraction provides a single pane of glass for different types of environments, and self-service catalogs enable technical or business users to request services without multiple tickets. CloudBolt also offers strong integration capabilities that work well with existing tools without disrupting the current environment. From an integration standpoint, CloudBolt works well with various public and private cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and Nutanix, as well as different virtualization software, infrastructure as code templates such as Ansible and Terraform, ITSM tools such as ServiceNow, and CMDB platforms. CloudBolt has positively impacted my organization by managing multiple cloud environments for thousands of users with a complex enterprise workflow that has helped reduce man-hours required for provisioning resources. We have achieved faster delivery through standardized operating procedures and reduced reworks due to automation. The chargeback and showback mechanisms allow us to charge different business units according to their consumption, providing better governance, lower risk, and lower cost, resulting in a good return on investment. Since using CloudBolt, I have seen a 25 to 30 percent reduction in service delivery time and an improvement in efficiency of almost 20 to 25 percent within a timeframe of approximately 8 to 10 months.
G Srivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Automation of cloud infrastructure has transformed how our team manages Terraform workflows
Spacelift has other features beyond Terraform, including Ansible, Pulumi, Terragrunt, and it also helps with Kubernetes, although we haven't used it for the other tools. We have only used it for Terraform Infrastructure as Code, and it has helped us significantly. One standout feature compared to Terraform Cloud is the ability to apply policies. For example, we want to restrict engineers in our team from building servers with a particular SKU, such as in Azure, where we do not want to run servers with a SKU higher than the standard D4sv5. We can apply those policies in Spacelift, and the RBAC and access policies features are really excellent in Spacelift, which we do not find in any of the other competitor tools. The pricing is also competitive compared to Terraform Cloud. The access policy features allow us to assign specific policies since we have three environments in our company: Dev, QA, and Prod. We assign policies so that anyone can run code from Dev and QA servers, but we assign a policy for specific people, such as managers, to run code in Prod. This is a very good feature from Spacelift that we have implemented for the access policy. Spacelift has positively impacted our organization as a CI/CD tool for application deployment and development. Although we use other CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, there wasn't a specific tool for Terraform Infrastructure as Code until Spacelift came along. It allows us to easily configure our servers and build a number of them on our cloud. While other CI/CD tools have started to include configuration features, Spacelift offers many other benefits that make it an excellent tool to use.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Educational Organization
9%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudBolt?
To improve CloudBolt, I believe the user experience needs enhancement as some users find it somewhat dated compared to newer cloud management platforms. From a telemetry and analytics perspective, ...
What is your primary use case for CloudBolt?
My main use case for CloudBolt includes having a centralized self-service provisioning and orchestration, allowing me to manage hybrid and multi-cloud provisioning across AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, a...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudBolt?
For others looking into using CloudBolt, I advise defining governance policies early, focusing on building modular automation, and planning integrations in advance, such as IAM, CMDB, or security a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Spacelift?
I don't have much experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing as that's handled by a different team. With pricing and setup costs, I don't have anything to compare it with regarding other to...
What needs improvement with Spacelift?
Regarding improvements needed in Spacelift, it's difficult to say because I have been using it for a while now and haven't seen many areas where I would want to see something new because much of wh...
What is your primary use case for Spacelift?
My main use case for Spacelift is that I primarily use it for Terraform, focusing on module versioning and deployment. Recently, we started exploring the blueprints option, but the primary focus re...
 

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Sample Customers

WM, CyWest, Panic, Camden, University of Maryland, Xerox, Neustar, Medidata, Continu, Aruba Networks, Neuberger Berman, Peak6, EverBank, Ascensus, Hosting Edge
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