Pulumi vs Crossplane

Side-by-side comparison of Pulumi and Crossplane to help you choose the right tool.

Feature	Pulumi	Crossplane
Pricing	Free / $50-$225/user/mo	Free (open source)
Rating	⭐ 4.6/5	⭐ 4.4/5
Categories	iac	iac, containers-orchestration
Real languages	✅	❌
Multi-cloud	✅	✅
State management	✅	❌
Testing support	✅	❌
Policy as code	✅	❌
Pulumi AI	✅	❌
Kubernetes-native	❌	✅
Compositions	❌	✅
Self-service	❌	✅
Providers	❌	✅
RBAC	❌	✅

Infrastructure as Code using real programming languages

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Cloud-native control plane for infrastructure

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