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Pick up to four tools and compare adoption, momentum and maintenance at a glance. The crown marks the leader in each row.

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

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.

Defines AWS infrastructure in TypeScript, Python, Java or C# and synthesizes it to CloudFormation.

Head to head

Metric	Pulumi	Terraform	OpenTofu	AWS CDK
Stars	25.9k	50.1k	30.8k	13k
Weekly downloads	5.1M	n/a	n/a	6.8M
Download growth	+55%	n/a	n/a	+25%
Popularity score	81/100	86/100	82/100	80/100
Forks	1.5k	10.6k	1.4k	4.7k
Open issues	2.5k	1.9k	376	2.9k
Last commit	5d ago	1w ago	2d ago	1d ago
Latest version	3.274.1	n/a	n/a	2.276.0
License	Apache-2.0	n/a	MPL-2.0	Apache-2.0
First released	2016	2014	2023	2017
Signals	None	Popular	Rising	Popular
Listed in	DevOps & Cloud › Infrastructure as Code	DevOps & Cloud › Infrastructure as Code	DevOps & Cloud › Infrastructure as Code	DevOps & Cloud › Infrastructure as Code

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

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

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.

Defines AWS infrastructure in TypeScript, Python, Java or C# and synthesizes it to CloudFormation.

Metric	Pulumi	Terraform	OpenTofu	AWS CDK
Stars	25.9k	50.1k	30.8k	13k
Weekly downloads	5.1M	n/a	n/a	6.8M
Download growth	+55%	n/a	n/a	+25%
Popularity score	81/100	86/100	82/100	80/100
Forks	1.5k	10.6k	1.4k	4.7k
Open issues	2.5k	1.9k	376	2.9k
Last commit	5d ago	1w ago	2d ago	1d ago
Latest version	3.274.1	n/a	n/a	2.276.0
License	Apache-2.0	n/a	MPL-2.0	Apache-2.0
First released	2016	2014	2023	2017
Signals	None	Popular	Rising	Popular
Listed in	DevOps & Cloud › Infrastructure as Code	DevOps & Cloud › Infrastructure as Code	DevOps & Cloud › Infrastructure as Code	DevOps & Cloud › Infrastructure as Code

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