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Kubernetes control plane that provisions and composes cloud resources through custom APIs (CRDs).

Declarative IaC with the largest provider ecosystem; owned by IBM (HashiCorp) and BSL-licensed since 2023.

Open-source (MPL) Linux Foundation fork of Terraform; drop-in compatible, adds state encryption and more.

IaC in TypeScript, Python, Go, C# or Java instead of a DSL, with managed state, policies and secrets.

Head to head

Metric	Crossplane	Terraform	OpenTofu	Pulumi
Stars	12.2k	50.1k	30.8k	25.9k
Weekly downloads	n/a	n/a	n/a	5.1M
Download growth	n/a	n/a	n/a	+55%
Popularity score	75/100	86/100	82/100	81/100
Forks	1.3k	10.6k	1.4k	1.5k
Open issues	199	1.9k	376	2.5k
Last commit	5d ago	1w ago	2d ago	5d ago
Latest version	n/a	n/a	n/a	3.274.1
License	Apache-2.0	n/a	MPL-2.0	Apache-2.0
First released	2018	2014	2023	2016
Signals	None	Popular	Rising	None
Listed in	DevOps & Cloud › Infrastructure as Code DevOps & Cloud › Platform engineering & developer portals	DevOps & Cloud › Infrastructure as Code	DevOps & Cloud › Infrastructure as Code	DevOps & Cloud › Infrastructure as Code

Weekly downloads over time

Hover for exact values; switch to log scale for tools of very different sizes. Not shown (no comparable download data): Crossplane, Terraform, OpenTofu.