Index › Vendors › CDK for Terraform · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

CDK for Terraform

5Judge labels

0First choices

5Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. CDK for Terraform was named 4 times in IaC, where Terraform led with 46%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market43 of 46

under the label threshold

Enterprise55 of 64

under the label threshold

In iac · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named CDK for Terraform for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Infrastructure as code	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	43 of 46	100%	4	under 10 labels · led by Terraform at 46%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CDK for Terraform yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated CDK for Terraform across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	2	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“was deprecated in December 2025—don't start new projects with it” Kimi K2 · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative

“HashiCorp deprecated CDKTF in December 2025” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid for new projects.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative

“Niche tools (e.g., CDKTF, Crossplane): Cool tech, but harder to hire for.” Kimi K2 · IaC · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CDK for Terraform, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CDK for Terraform was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

OpenTofu5 of 54Not in the top three

Pulumi5 of 52Not in the top three

Terraform5 of 51Not in the top three

AWS CloudFormation5 of 50Not in the top three

AWS CDK4 of 51Not in the top three

Ansible4 of 50Not in the top three

Chef4 of 50Not in the top three

Puppet4 of 50Not in the top three

Azure Bicep3 of 50Not in the top three

Azure Resource Manager templates3 of 50Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named CDK for Terraform. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 5 answers that named CDK for Terraform and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

apiiro.com2

cortex.io2

infralovers.com2

opentofu.org2

reddit.com2

stackgen.com2

alpacked.io1

chatforest.com1

cheatsheetseries.owasp.org1

checkmarx.com1

No domain is on file for CDK for Terraform, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

apiiro.com/blog/best-iac-tools2

cortex.io/post/best-infrastructure-as-code-iac-tools2

opentofu.org/manifesto2

alpacked.io/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools-20261

chatforest.com/reviews/infrastructure-as-code-mcp-servers1

cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Infrastructure_as_Code_Security_Cheat_Sheet.html1

checkmarx.com/learn/iac-security/the-ultimate-guide-to-infrastructure-as-code-iac-security1

chef.io/blog/upcoming-deprecation-and-end-of-life-updates-for-progress-chef-products1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as CDK for Terraform

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as CDK for Terraform; a claim can dispute any of them.

CDK for Terraform (CDKTF) 2CDKTF 1Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF) 1

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