Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 13 → 37 of 42
2 categories · RankedSpacelift
50Judge labels
4First choices
6Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
5% in IaC for enterprise buyers
Rank 10 of 59 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 18% of its 11 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Spacelift →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business42 of 47
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market10 of 59
0%11 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise4 of 69
5%29 labels
accepted challenger
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 Spacelift 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure as code | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 10 of 59 | 18% | 11 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Internal developer portals | Developer platform | 0% | 22 of 52 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Port at 53% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Spacelift held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · IaC · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 10 → 9 of 51
Enterprise▼−1Since September 2026: 7% → 6%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 4 of 57, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IaC | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 10 of 59, unchanged |
| Developer portals | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 22 of 52, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Spacelift across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Spacelift across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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
Direct9 labelsNone
Paraphrase8 labels1
Comparative11 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labels1
Scale-constrained11 labels2
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative50 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.
“Spacelift (an orchestration layer that makes Terraform easier to collaborate on via visual UI and built-in CI/CD)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · IaC · scale prompt · alternative
“run a proof-of-concept (POC) evaluating a modern, multi-engine TACOS platform (like Spacelift or env0)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · scale prompt · alternative
“Choose Spacelift if: Your primary pain point is managing Terraform/IaC environments and approvals.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Developer portals · comparative prompt · alternative
“Consider Spacelift when you need standardized runners, approvals, and centralized visibility” Muse Glimmer 30B · IaC · direct prompt · alternative
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.
“managing the code can get expensive if you rely on premium commercial platforms like HCP Terraform, Spacelift, or env0” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · budget prompt · soft negative
“Great for governance and policy checks, but they are *policy* layers, not provisioning engines.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · IaC · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Spacelift, over the 50 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spacelift was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Spacelift, over the 50 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spacelift was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Spacelift. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 44 of the 50 answers that named Spacelift and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
pulumi.com36
spacelift.ioYour site28
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com20
guideflow.com20
checkthat.ai14
firefly.ai14
envzero.com12
facets.cloud12
dev.to11
cortex.io10
149 of the 177 domain citations in answers naming Spacelift came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
spacelift.io ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Spacelift takes 0% of first choices and Terraform takes 57%.ShowHide
Search and answers
spacelift.io ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Spacelift takes 0% of first choices and Terraform takes 57%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “infrastructure-as-code tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “infrastructure-as-code tools”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,400 a month (“spacelift”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 48 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 53,153 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 13,045 · 967 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 4,508
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 10 of 59 in iac
Segment leader
57%
Terraform
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 50 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 44 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on spacelift.io
2,867
subdomains included
Content
919
counted in the table below
Documentation
738
Product · Integration
8 · 1
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 699 | 18 | 2026-09-24 | IaC, MFA | |
| Comparison | 69 | 0 | 2026-06-03 | ||
| Template or tool | 49 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 49 | 0 | 2026-04-14 | ||
| Case study | 46 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 5 | 1 | 2026-10-09 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-10-09Devops conferences events conference or event
- 2026-09-24How to audit cloud spend blog
- 2026-09-22Ai infrastructure tools blog
- 2026-09-10Iac governance playbook blog
- 2026-09-08Spacelift flows is live blog
- 2026-09-04Terraform cloud contract renewal blog
Events in person
Upcoming
- November 9, 2026IaCConf Connect SLCSalt Lake City · attends
- November 9, 2026 to November 12, 2026KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026Salt Lake City · attends
- November 30, 2026 to December 4, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026Las Vegas · attends
Last twelve months
- October 21, 2026The Reports of Open Source IaC's Death are Greatly ExaggeratedVirtual · attended
- October 19, 2026 to October 20, 2026DevOpsDays BostonCambridge · attended
- October 9, 2026AWS Day of Containers LondonLondon · attended
As the event pages on spacelift.io state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page spacelift.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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The company
Spacelift is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Spacelift is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The IaC Orchestration Platform Engineers Trust
- For
- engineers
- Price stated
- $20,000 spacelift.io/pricing
- Starting price
- $20,000 spacelift.io/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Free trial spacelift.io
- Certifications
- FedRAMP-authorized SaaSFedRAMP
- Customers named
- BraceCheckoutLightspeed1PasswordFigmaInfinite CampusCheckout.comDuolingo
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What Spacelift's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: spacelift.io, spacelift.io/pricing, trust.spacelift.io, spacelift.io/platform, spacelift.io/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Spacelift's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Spacelift, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Spacelift by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Spacelift is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Spacelift, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.