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Terraform pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for Terraform. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the technology tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free, then $0.1/resource-month
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The Terraform catalogue entry carries a starting price of $0.1/resource-month, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the Terraform review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full Terraform 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.
Core
- Infrastructure as code
- Resource graph
- Plan & apply
- State management
- Provider ecosystem
- Modules
- Workspaces
- Remote backends
Integrations
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Kubernetes
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Datadog
- PagerDuty
Security
- State encryption
- RBAC
- Audit logs
- Policy enforcement
Deployment
- Cli deployment
- Cloud deployment
- Self-hosted deployment
Platform
- Linux support
- Macos support
- Windows support
Localization
- HCL language support
- JSON language support
People bring Terraform in for multi-cloud provisioning, infrastructure automation, environment replication, disaster recovery, compliance automation. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Terraform are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Terraform
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: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Terraform runs on linux, macos, windows, and is published by HashiCorp of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Terraform review, and the rest of the category is under best technology tools.
Terraform pricing questions
- How much does Terraform cost?
- Terraform starts at $0.1/resource-month. No tier-by-tier breakdown is published on the record we hold.
- Does Terraform have a free plan?
- Yes, Terraform is recorded as free, so it can be used without paying.
- What am I actually paying for with Terraform?
- The record lists 28 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for multi-cloud provisioning, infrastructure automation, environment replication.
- Does Terraform charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, 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 Terraform 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 Terraform against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Terraform to make a useful price comparison.