Pulumi
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Features
46 features across 7 categories
AI(2)
AI-powered assistance within CI/CD pipelines
AI agent that understands entire infrastructure context, respects policies, and executes complex infrastructure tasks end-to-end
Core IaC(10)
Ability to run multiple stack updates concurrently
Restore and recover previously deleted stacks
Automatic state management for infrastructure deployments with unlimited projects, stacks, and environments
Built-in testing frameworks for validating infrastructure code
Deploy to any cloud provider seamlessly
Write infrastructure using TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, or YAML with full IDE support and testing frameworks
Create and share reusable infrastructure components across projects
Schedule infrastructure deployments for specific times
Automatically destroy infrastructure after a specified time period
Complete history of all infrastructure updates with unlimited retention
Deployment(1)
Option to self-host Pulumi Cloud in your own infrastructure or datacenter
Governance(12)
Comprehensive audit trails for compliance and security tracking
Export audit logs to S3 for long-term storage and analysis
Pre-built policies for compliance requirements and standards
Export infrastructure data for analysis and reporting
Detect and automatically remediate infrastructure drift to maintain desired state
Enforce policies across entire organization
Automatic policy enforcement with preventative and audit policies to maintain compliance and security guardrails
Pre-built and custom policy packs including Pulumi Best Practices, CIS, NIST, HITRUST, PCI DSS
Automatic remediation of policy violations
Search infrastructure resources by properties and attributes
One pane of glass for all clouds with natural language search, policy enforcement, compliance tracking, and vulnerability detection
Search infrastructure across all clouds with natural language capabilities
Integration(8)
Automation API for building on top of Pulumi programmatically
Integrations with AWS Code Services, Azure DevOps, Codeship, CircleCI, GitHub, GitLab, Google Cloud Build, Jenkins, Travis CI
Support for GitHub Enterprise Server integrations
SDKs for multiple programming languages for integration and automation
Native provider for managing Pulumi resources through infrastructure code
Comprehensive REST API for programmatic access to Pulumi services
Automatic group and user synchronization via SCIM protocol
Webhook support for event-driven automation and integrations
Platform Engineering(2)
Portal for hosting public and private infrastructure templates
Build self-service platforms with templates, approved infrastructure APIs, and golden paths for engineers
Security(11)
Automatically rotate secrets to maintain security compliance
Support for customer-managed encryption keys for enhanced security
Automatic rotation of database secrets in public and private networks
Generate dynamic credentials using OpenID Connect for enhanced security
Generate and manage dynamic secrets and credentials
Machine access tokens scoped to organization or team level
Fine-grained access control with role-based permissions for team members
Support for SAML and single sign-on with identity providers including Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta, OneLogin
Centralized secrets and configuration management supporting HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, and more
Compliance certification for security and operational controls
Version control for secrets with tag-based import capabilities
Pricing
Individual
- ✓IaC state management
- ✓Unlimited projects, stacks, and environments
- ✓Unlimited updates and history
- ✓500 free deployment minutes
- ✓Deleted stack recovery
- ✓REST API
- ✓Automation API
Team
Popular- ✓Everything in Individual
- ✓Up to 10 users
- ✓Secure collaboration and CI/CD
- ✓AI assistance with Pulumi Neo
- ✓Resource search
- ✓OIDC and Org Access Tokens
- ✓Webhooks
- ✓Automatic secrets rotation
- ✓500 resources included
- ✓Concurrent stack updates (5)
- ✓CI/CD integrations
- ✓Time-to-live stacks
- ✓Scheduled deployments
- ✓GitHub Enterprise Server support
- ✓Pulumi-service provider
- ✓Up to 25 policies (1 pack limit)
- ✓Drift detection
- ✓Dynamic credentials
- ✓Database Secrets Rotation
- ✓Manual policy enforcement
- ✓Version tags and import by tags
- ✓Community support
Enterprise
- ✓Everything in Team
- ✓Unlimited users
- ✓SAML/SSO and RBAC
- ✓Internal developer platform (IDP)
- ✓Audit logs
- ✓Drift detection and remediation
- ✓Time-to-live stacks
- ✓Customer Managed Keys
- ✓2,000 resources included
- ✓Unlimited concurrent stack updates
- ✓Up to 100 policies (3 pack limit)
- ✓Organization-managed policy enforcement
- ✓Pre-built Policy Packs (Pulumi Best Practices, CIS, NIST, HITRUST, PCI DSS)
- ✓Custom Policy Packs
- ✓Primary Accounts (10)
- ✓Developer portal with private templates
- ✓Priority feature requests
- ✓12x5 Enterprise Support available
Business Critical
- ✓Everything in Enterprise
- ✓Self-hosting available
- ✓Compliance policies
- ✓Org-wide policy enforcement
- ✓Automatic group & user sync (SCIM)
- ✓Audit logs export
- ✓Volume pricing and invoicing
- ✓Private Slack and Professional Services
- ✓24x7 Enterprise Support available
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Total Cost Comparison
DIY hosting estimate based on Vercel + Supabase free/pro tiers (~$20/mo). Build time estimated from 46 features at very easy complexity.
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Buying Pulumi saves ~$22,560 over 3 years vs building.
Estimates based on 46 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.
Integrations
19 known integrations