18.1
KubeSphere is a Kubernetes-based platform for managing cloud-native applications across clusters and infrastructure environments.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
Best Platform Engineering Software in 2026
Teams building internal platforms can compare software for managing infrastructure and the workflows around it. Deployment model, infrastructure as code, and Kubernetes support help describe the technical capabilities to weigh. Self-service provisioning and workflow automation are relevant when considering how teams request and use resources; policy and governance add another dimension. Check free-plan availability…
28.0
Northflank is a developer platform for building and operating applications made up of microservices, databases, background jobs, and scheduled tasks.
Free planWebAPILinux
38.0
Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code tool for defining and managing cloud and on-premises resources with human-readable configuration files.
Free planWebAPILinux
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Upbound
Free planWebAPIExtensionLinux7.7From $1,000 a month - 5
Wayfinder
Wayfinder is an agentic software development lifecycle platform that runs in a customer’s own cloud.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted7.5From £399 a month - 6
Pulumi
Pulumi helps engineers define and manage infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code using general-purpose languages.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.4From $40 a month - 7
Qovery
Qovery describes itself as a Kubernetes control plane for people and AI agents, running on customers' own infrastructure.
WebAPILinuxmacOS7.1From $299 a month - 8
Cycloid
Cycloid is an internal developer portal for infrastructure self-service, orchestration, and governance.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.9From $45 a month - 9
Devtron Release Orchestration
Devtron Release Orchestration is a Kubernetes-native control plane for application builds, deployments, security and governance across microservices and AI/ML workloads.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.9From $499 a month - 10
Port
Port is a cloud-native platform for engineering teams to build, govern, and operate their software development lifecycle.
Free planWebAPIExtension6.9From $30 a month - 11
Spacelift
Spacelift is an infrastructure-as-code orchestration platform for managing plans, applies, policy checks and drift detection.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.9From $20,000 a year - 12
Substrate
Substrate is a control plane for managing and optimizing Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, and databases across cloud providers.
Free planWebAPI6.9From $299 a month - 13
Terrateam
Terrateam’s orchestration engine continues as Stategraph Orchestration, a tool for planning infrastructure changes from pull requests.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.9From $12,000 a year - 14
Backstage
Backstage is an open-source framework for building and deploying developer portals.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.8Free plan - 15
Porter
Porter deploys and manages applications inside a customer’s AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure account, while Porter handles infrastructure operations.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.8From $6 a month - 16
Humanitec
Humanitec is a platform orchestrator for engineering organizations managing application and infrastructure configuration.
WebAPISelf-hosted6.6From $1,979 a month - 17
KubeVela
KubeVela is an open-source software delivery platform for deploying and operating applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Free planWebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.6Free plan - 18
Bunnyshell
Bunnyshell creates temporary, production-like environments for pull requests, making it an environment platform for engineering teams.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.5From $0.01 a month - 19
Scalr
Scalr is an infrastructure-as-code platform for platform teams, described as a drop-in replacement for Terraform Cloud with a standardized workflow…
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.5Free plan - 20
env0
env0 is a cloud control plane for governing infrastructure and helping teams manage, automate, and scale it.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.3Free plan - 21
Roadie
Roadie provides a live graph of software services, teams, and dependencies, giving people and agents structured context.
WebAPI6.3From $24 a month - 22
Sealos
Sealos is an AI-native cloud development platform combining development environments, application deployment, managed databases, and Kubernetes.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.3From $7 a month - 23
Kratix
Free planAPISelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 24
Crossplane
Crossplane is an open-source control plane framework for platform engineering, designed to help teams manage cloud-native software through control planes they build.
Free planSelf-hosted5.9Free plan - 25
StackGen
StackGen describes Aiden as an agentic operations platform for DevOps, platform engineering, and SRE teams, spanning build, operate, observe, and remediate workflows.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted5.9Free plan