Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools

Brainboard vs Spacelift

Compare Brainboard and Spacelift side-by-side. See feature differences and pricing in the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools category.

Brainboard

by Brainboard

No reviews yet

Pricing: Free plan; Pro $99 per user a month billed monthly, or $999 per user a year billed yearly; Enterprise by quote.

Brainboard is a visual infrastructure-as-code designer for cloud and DevOps teams, working as a design and CI/CD layer on top of Terraform and OpenTofu.

8 /17 features Full profile

Spacelift

by Spacelift

No reviews yet

Pricing: Free plan for 2 users and 1 public worker. Starter +, Business, Enterprise and Enterprise + are priced by quote on annual subscriptions.

Spacelift is an infrastructure as code orchestration platform for platform teams running Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi and Ansible, hosted or self-hosted.

15 /17 features Full profile

Feature Comparison

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools features side-by-side

Feature	Brainboard 8/17 features	Spacelift 15/17 features
Providers for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Official providers cover the three major clouds, with more for SaaS and on-premise APIs.	Yes	Yes
Execution plan preview before apply Every create, update and destroy is listed for review before any change is made.	Yes	Yes
Remote state with locking State is stored centrally and locked during runs so two applies cannot collide.	No	Yes
Drift detection against deployed cloud state Scheduled checks compare live resources with the declared configuration and flag differences.	Yes	Yes
Private module registry Versioned modules are published to an organisation-private registry for reuse across teams.	No	Yes
Infrastructure in general-purpose languages Infrastructure can be written in TypeScript, Python, Go or similar instead of a dedicated DSL.	No	Yes
Policy-as-code checks at plan time Rules evaluated against the plan block non-compliant changes before they are applied.	No	Yes
Pull-request plans from version control Speculative plans are posted to pull requests and applies run when the change is merged.	No	Yes
Cost estimate on each plan The plan shows the estimated monthly cost change of the proposed resources.	Yes	Yes
Import of existing cloud resources Resources created outside the tool can be brought under management without recreation.	Yes	Yes
Encrypted workspace variables Sensitive variables are stored encrypted per workspace and never echoed in run logs.	No	No
Per-workspace access control Teams are granted read, plan or apply rights on individual workspaces or stacks.	Yes	Yes
Approval required before apply A run can be configured to wait for a reviewer's confirmation between plan and apply.	Yes	Yes
Auto-destroy of temporary environments Stacks can carry a time-to-live after which their resources are torn down automatically.	No	Yes
Cross-stack output references One stack can read the outputs of another to wire dependent infrastructure together.	No	Yes
Self-hosted agents for private networks Runs can execute on agents inside a private network that the hosted service cannot reach.	Yes	Yes
Open source IaC engine The core CLI and language are open source; the hosted platform adds collaboration features.	No	No
Overall Rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet