Puppetvs
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean: The developer cloud
Puppet
Infrastructure automation for enterprises
As of 30 August 2026, Puppet is free to use. Puppet is an open-source configuration management tool that automates infrastructure provisioning and management. Softwr lists it under Cloud. Puppet is launched in 2005, available on Linux, Windows, macOS, API.
Overview
What Puppet does
Puppet is an open-source configuration management tool that automates infrastructure provisioning and management. It uses a declarative language for infrastructure as code.
What people use it for
- Infrastructure automation
- Configuration management
- DevOps at scale
- Enterprise infrastructure
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Puppet.
- No pricing published for commercial tiers; requires contacting sales
- Enterprise and Advanced tiers require custom quote
- Free tier limited to 25 nodes maximum
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of Puppet
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- PuppetvsGrafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud: Composable observability platform
- PuppetvsNeon
Neon: Serverless Postgres for modern developers
- PuppetvsAWS (Amazon Web Services)
AWS (Amazon Web Services): The leading cloud computing platform
Pricing
What Puppet costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Developer
Free
- Up to 25 nodes
Core Commercial
On request
- 25+ nodes
- Vendor-backed SLAs
- Training with Certified Engineers
Enterprise
On request
- Web GUI
- RBAC
- Multi-environment support
- Infrastructure at scale
Advanced
On request
- AI-powered features
- Advanced patching
- Vulnerability remediation
- Priority support
Capabilities
Features
Manifests
Modules
Classes
Variables
Facts
Puppet Master
Hiera
Facter
AWS
Integration with AWS
Azure
Integration with Azure
GCP
Integration with GCP
Docker
Integration with Docker
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How much does Puppet cost?
Puppet's Developer tier is free for up to 25 nodes. Commercial, Enterprise, and Advanced tiers require contacting their sales team for a custom quote.
SourceIs there a free version of Puppet?
Yes, Puppet's Developer tier is free forever for up to 25 nodes of infrastructure.
SourceWhat does the Enterprise tier include?
Puppet's Enterprise tier includes web GUI, RBAC, and multi-environment support for organizations managing infrastructure at scale, with pricing available upon request.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Puppet
- Company
- Puppet
- Based in
- Portland, OR
Keep looking
Where to go from Puppet
- Puppet alternativesEvery product people weigh against it
- Puppet pricingPlans, floors and what the tiers exclude
- Puppet badgesWhich rules it meets, and the figure behind each
- All Cloud softwareThe full category
- Best Cloud softwareThe shortlist, and how it was cut
Best Cloud software for
Compare Puppet with
- AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- DigitalOcean
- Grafana Cloud
- Neon
- Chef
- Packer
- Google Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Azure
- Lambda
- Oracle Cloud
- Akamai
- IBM Cloud
- Jaeger
- Linode
- Northflank
- Lambda
- Longhorn
- minikube
Other Cloud software
Open source distributed block storage for Kubernetes, incubating at the CNCF
Open source11 researched notes
Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for Puppet, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.
More on Puppet
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What people switch to, and what they give up
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Every tier, and where the cost actually lands
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Best Cloud software alternatives
Open source distributed block storage for Kubernetes, incubating at the CNCF
Open source, no licence fee
Deployment platform that provisions and operates Kubernetes inside your own cloud account
quote
Cloud cost estimates in pull requests, with governance in the paid tier
Free open source tool, then per month by run volume
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Open source, no licence fee
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Open source, no licence fee