6 free alternatives to Pulumi

Spacelift's free plan includes 2 users and 1 public worker. That gives you a little collaboration room right away, plus a worker to run orchestration tasks. The free tier is intentionally small, but it is perpetual and the plan is described as always free with no credit card and no time limit. It is a better fit if your main problem with Pulumi is the single-user ceiling and you want an orchestration layer that can manage IaC and GitOps workflows across multiple frameworks, including Pulumi itself. What it does not give you for free is the breadth of Pulumi's unlimited projects, stacks, environments, and history. Switch here if you need a shared starter workspace more than you need Pulumi's own free workflow depth.

• Beats Pulumi: 2 users instead of 1
• Falls short: Does not include Pulumi's unlimited projects, stacks, environments, and history
• Who should switch: Switch to this if your immediate blocker is needing a second person on the free plan.

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Bitrise's free Hobby plan gives you access to one private app, a team of one, Linux Medium and macOS Medium build machines, unlimited public apps, 300 credits per month, and build timeouts up to 90 minutes. It is a better fit than Pulumi when your free-tier pain point is compute style usage, not infrastructure state management. The plan is aimed at mobile CI/CD, so it offers an app-centric workflow with community support and monthly build credits rather than infrastructure orchestration. It falls short of Pulumi on IaC state management, unlimited projects, stacks, and environments, since those are not part of Bitrise's free offer. Choose it if you are mainly shipping app builds and need a free bucket of build minutes and machines.

• Beats Pulumi: Build credits and machine access for app builds
• Falls short: No IaC state management, stacks, or environments
• Who should switch: Switch to this if you need free CI/CD capacity for a small app rather than infrastructure orchestration.

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Kong Konnect is a 30-day free trial, not a perpetual free tier, but it is broad. Free access includes no Gateway limits during the trial, up to 5 Serverless Gateways, up to 2 Hybrid Gateways, up to 2 Dedicated Cloud Gateways, unlimited agents, up to 5 unique LLM models, unlimited MCP server proxies, up to 2 Developer Portals, support for up to 20 published APIs, and 1M API requests per month for analytics. It beats Pulumi on the amount of platform functionality you can test before paying, especially if you are working around APIs, gateways, or LLM traffic. It falls short on permanence because the free access expires after 30 days. Switch if you want a broad, time-limited trial instead of a long-running solo free plan.

• Beats Pulumi: Much broader trial access to gateways, APIs, and analytics
• Falls short: Only free for 30 days
• Who should switch: Switch to this if you need a broad trial to evaluate API and gateway workflows fast.

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Zeet's free tier includes 3 free projects, deployment to 1 cluster, 1 cloud region, 1 custom blueprint, up to 7 team members, and up to 10 cloud accounts linked. That is a useful starting point for cloud operations work where you need a team and a real deployment target, not just solo infrastructure state. It beats Pulumi on free collaboration breadth because you can invite a larger group and connect multiple cloud accounts. It falls short on Pulumi's unlimited projects, stacks, environments, and unlimited updates and history. Pick Zeet if your free usage is centered on a small number of real deployments across Kubernetes or Terraform workflows and you need team access from day one.

• Beats Pulumi: Up to 7 team members and 10 linked cloud accounts
• Falls short: No unlimited projects, stacks, environments, or updates/history
• Who should switch: Switch to this if you need a free operational workspace for a small team.

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Azure DevOps gives you first 5 users free on Basic access, 1 Microsoft-hosted CI/CD parallel job with 1,800 minutes per month, 1 self-hosted CI/CD parallel job with unlimited minutes, 2 GiB of Azure Artifacts storage per organization, Azure Boards, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, and stakeholder access to dashboards and wikis. It beats Pulumi on user count and hosted build minutes, so it is a better free choice for small teams that need planning, repositories, and pipelines together. It falls short on Pulumi's IaC state management and infrastructure-specific workflow model. Choose it if you want a free DevOps platform for a small team rather than an infrastructure-as-code workspace.

• Beats Pulumi: First 5 users free and 1,800 hosted minutes per month
• Falls short: Does not provide Pulumi-style IaC state management
• Who should switch: Switch to this if you need free team DevOps basics more than infrastructure coding.

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ProjectLocker's free plan is very small, but it is straightforward: 1 user, 1 project, and 50 MB of storage. That makes it a fit for simple hosted repository use when you want the lightest possible free footprint and do not need the surrounding IaC workflow. It beats Pulumi only on simplicity of scope, because there are fewer moving parts and no minute-based workflow cap to watch. It falls far short of Pulumi on collaboration, unlimited projects, and infrastructure state management. Choose it only if your free need is basic code hosting or a tiny repository, not deployment-oriented infrastructure management.

• Beats Pulumi: Simpler minimum footprint for a tiny hosted repo
• Falls short: Far less functionality than Pulumi, including no IaC state management
• Who should switch: Switch to this if your actual need is tiny repository hosting, not infrastructure automation.

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