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Firefly vs Spacelift comparison

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.8
Firefly boosts profits 5-10%, cuts costs 30%, speeds market time 40%, and increases revenue 20%, saving resources significantly.
Sentiment score
5.6
Spacelift drastically cuts costs and boosts efficiency in infrastructure deployment, offering significant value, particularly for larger organizations.
We are currently improving 40% of our go-to-market time.
Senior Software Consultant at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
Profit generation increases by about 5 to 10 percent due to the efficiency Firefly provides, even after accounting for its costs and related expenses.
Senior Data Consultant at Simple MDG
We are spending $10 per month and we are using videos and we are getting a good amount from it because we are using it on projects and slides.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
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.
cloud engineer at softwareone
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
5.4
Firefly's customer service is organized, accessible, and responsive, earning an 8/10 rating, with notable onboarding support.
Sentiment score
5.1
Spacelift's customer service receives mixed feedback, praised for responsiveness but compared unfavorably to major services like AWS.
Our issues are typically resolved within the required SLA.
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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
5.8
Firefly efficiently scales with growing AWS accounts, maintaining performance and seamless deployment, despite gradual initial learning.
Sentiment score
5.5
Spacelift efficiently scales to manage large workloads and multiple Terraform projects, ensuring stability and functionality across deployments.
Firefly's scalability is impressive; as we add new AWS accounts and requirements, it has handled the growth well without any challenges.
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Whatever is available from the product gets deployed or available in our sandbox easily.
Senior Software Consultant at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
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 Devops Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Based on the requests and the Linux Docker machines I provision, it becomes more stable, and the runs happen very quickly.
cloud engineer at softwareone
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Over the past several months, Firefly has become significantly more stable and reliable with improved user prompting techniques.
Sentiment score
8.5
Spacelift is highly stable and reliable, with a 99% success rate and no significant stability issues reported by users.
Firefly is stable and I have not experienced any downtime or reliability issues.
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Firefly's stability improved significantly over the past seven to eight months, allowing us to achieve our needs efficiently.
Senior Data Consultant at Simple MDG
 

Room For Improvement

Firefly is criticized for high pricing, limited features, and lacks better AI capabilities, integration, and user support.
Spacelift needs to enhance user onboarding, error clarity, pricing transparency, UI design, integrations, and documentation for improved user experience.
This feature would significantly ease tasks related to video editing and adapting to green screen processes.
Senior Data Consultant at Simple MDG
The model should be trained much more because sometimes I feel some visual effects or some realism is missing from the videos.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
More customization for generated Terraform code to better match existing coding standards and module structures.
SDE-2 at a tech vendor with 1-10 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

Spacelift offers competitive pricing, with substantial savings over alternatives, despite occasional clarity issues in licensing and perceived costs.
It saved me around 12 to 15 hours of time because I do not want to search, download, and edit images and verify that they are legal and free to use.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Regarding pricing, I feel there should be some free options available for new users, but overall, I find the pricing acceptable.
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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.
cloud engineer at softwareone
My experience with pricing shows that the setup cost is reasonable, and the licensing also seems reasonable.
Lead Devops Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
 

Valuable Features

Firefly enhances creativity and productivity with text/image generation, automates tasks, and integrates tools for efficient resource management.
Spacelift enhances team efficiency, collaboration, and infrastructure management with automation, integrations, and Terraform support for improved deployment speed.
Our go-to-market becomes easy. Within two hours or three hours, we can complete this whole process: generation, review, and all, and go to the market instantly.
Senior Software Consultant at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
We have legal confidence that we do not get copyrights or get sued for using images or videos because these are AI-generated.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Firefly scans the environment and generates the Terraform code for those resources automatically.
SDE-2 at a tech vendor with 1-10 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

Firefly
Ranking in Cloud Management
21st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Spacelift
Ranking in Cloud Management
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
AI Software Development (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Firefly is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spacelift is 1.2%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Spacelift1.2%
Firefly0.6%
Other98.2%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

RasanpreetSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Automation has streamlined cloud cost control and governance yet onboarding still needs improvement
The best features Firefly offers include cost saving and drift detection, which native infrastructure as code solutions do not provide. Drift detection and governance are great features for Firefly that help me identify unutilized resources that can save costs. Firefly's drift detection and governance help me day-to-day by notifying me of any configuration drifts, such as when developers change configurations that I cannot control. For example, if I have a number of VMs running and their configurations are changed, Firefly alerts me to these changes, allowing me to identify gaps in configurations that can be corrected. Firefly's accuracy and reliability in output are impressive, with approximately 80% accuracy in building the required code for various services from the foundation services like EKS and VPC. Firefly has positively impacted my organization mainly through cost savings and governance. It allows me to have a centralized dashboard for a complete view of my AWS accounts to find problems easily. Additionally, it has saved me time because I no longer need to write every Terraform from scratch, as Firefly provides best industry practices code. For example, I monitored my database instances and found that someone had expanded the ACU size from the required number to ten times more, which began costing me $10,000 monthly extra for one AWS account. Firefly detected this and saved me the $10,000 extra expenditure.
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

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Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Educational Organization
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Firefly?
The only negative aspect of Firefly I see is the pricing, which is expensive. I would like to see Firefly include animated styles, such as moving objects or GIF functionality. This feature would si...
What is your primary use case for Firefly?
I currently work with multiple products, including Firefly, which I have used, and a couple of other Cloud AI tools for graphic designing. I have been utilizing Firefly for approximately one and a ...
What advice do you have for others considering Firefly?
I have not faced issues with customization in Firefly for our editing or perspective changes, which do not require additional features. Removing objects works well, and currently, we have not encou...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Spacelift?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that licensing was somewhat unclear when HashiCorp changed their own licensing.
What needs improvement with Spacelift?
It would be nice to have out-of-the-box A/B testing with Spacelift because we still use some custom features for that. Out-of-the-box A/B testing is the main thing I would like to add about the nee...
What is your primary use case for Spacelift?
We manage a lot of AWS deployments with Spacelift configs, so we have a main use case for it. We also use it for versioning and spinning up new environments. Recently we used Spacelift for deployin...
 

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