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Spacelift pricing
Spacelift publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 31 August 2026, Spacelift pricing is free across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- By private worker and tier, not by user
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Spacelift plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Starter Plus | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
| Business | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
| Enterprise | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers two users, public workers only, no private workers.
Starter Plus
On requestOver Free, this tier adds:
- Unlimited users
- Two public workers
- One to two private workers
- The pricing page prints a figure without stating a period
Business
On requestOver Starter Plus, this tier adds:
- Three private workers
- Quoted
Enterprise
On requestOver Business, this tier adds:
- Five to thirty private workers
- Self-hosted option
Where Spacelift stops being free
Free, Free
- Two users
- Public workers only
- No private workers
No paid tier on record
Spacelift lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Spacelift feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Multi-tool orchestration
- Policy as code
- Private workers
- Spaces
- Blueprints
- Drift detection
People bring Spacelift in for platform teams running infrastructure changes through approval gates rather than through application ci, organisations standardising terraform and opentofu across many teams with policy enforcement, estates needing private runners so cloud credentials never leave the network, teams wanting drift detection and reconciliation rather than plan-time checks alone. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Spacelift are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Developer Tools
Too few developer tools tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spacelift (this page) | Free | By private worker and tier, not by user | - | |
| Tilt | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Spacelift |
| Hookdeck | Free, then $39/month | Per month by delivered event count | - | vs Spacelift |
| Jitsu | Free, then $99/month | Per month by event volume | - | vs Spacelift |
| Ona (formerly Gitpod) | Free, then $20/month | Per month by compute unit | - | vs Spacelift |
| Restate | Free, then $300/month | Per month by durable action count | - | vs Spacelift |
| Cloud Native Buildpacks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Spacelift |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Spacelift badges page.
Before you pay for Spacelift
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Spacelift runs on web, self-hosted, cloud, and is published by Spacelift, Inc. of Redwood City, California, United States. The full record is on the Spacelift review, and the rest of the category is under best developer tools tools.
Spacelift pricing questions
- How much does Spacelift cost?
- Spacelift publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Spacelift have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers two users, public workers only, no private workers.
- What is the difference between Free and Starter Plus on Spacelift?
- Starter Plus costs On request against Free, and adds unlimited users, two public workers, one to two private workers, the pricing page prints a figure without stating a period.
- Which developer tools tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 developer tools tools listed alongside Spacelift have a free tier: Tilt, Hookdeck, Jitsu, Ona (formerly Gitpod), Restate.
- What am I actually paying for with Spacelift?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for platform teams running infrastructure changes through approval gates rather than through application ci, organisations standardising terraform and opentofu across many teams with policy enforcement, estates needing private runners so cloud credentials never leave the network.
- Does Spacelift charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Spacelift prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Spacelift against before paying?
- The closest developer tools tools in this directory are Tilt, Hookdeck, Jitsu, Ona (formerly Gitpod). Each has a side-by-side comparison with Spacelift covering price, platforms and features.