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Compare Cycloid to Cloudify
Fuel your DevX, DevOps & Hybrid Cloud with integrated platform engineering modules around governance, cloud management and FinOps – built for both executive-level platform engineering buy-in and a smooth DevOps rollout.
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The Cycloid team
Platform engineering
Published
July 30th 2026
Read time
6 min
The Cloudify platform provides infrastructure automation using Environment-as-a-Service technology to deploy and continuously manage any cloud, private data center, or Kubernetes service from one central point, while enabling developers to self-service their environments.
In contrast to Cloudify which comes from the traditional world of Cloud management platforms, Cycloid’s background is in Hybrid Cloud, DevOps and DevX. Our approach is the end-to-end integrated ecosystem, already complete with modules around Governance, simple easy-to-use self-service portal and a complete set of FinOps and GreenOps modules.
Cycloid’s integrated approach
Cycloid platform engineering improves the developer experience by allowing anyone to use tools, cloud and automation without the need to become an expert in every field. It also improves operational efficiency by decreasing the number of tickets opened by end-users. Cycloid facilitates the change management & democratizes hybrid cloud & DevOps at scale by allowing you to create your own opinionated platform to define the governance and the level of flexibility wanted. It’s based on your Git, and is tools and cloud provider-agnostic.
Why Cycloid?
While both strive to solve the same challenges, Cycloid offers a stronger UX/UI, a better developer experience, a more flexible and integrated orchestration and a more product-oriented approach based on Open Source. We also provide a more competitive pricing model which is based on user/month, instead of environment, allowing you to scale easily.
Side by side
Feature comparison
Feature
Cloudify
Installation
On-premise
Control the way critical data is stored and processed in your own secure infrastructure (bare metal, VM and Kubernetes) and comply with security requirements for your organization.
- Available
- Available
Dedicated SaaS
Host a dedicated SaaS on the cloud provider of your choice: AWS, GCP, Azure etc.
- Available
- Not available
SaaS
Enjoy the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of cloud computing and start using the platform right away.
- Available
- Available
Self-service portal & orchestration
Service Catalog
Build and deploy pre-configured services in a reproducible manner across your environments in a full GitOps approach. Use a public or private self-service catalog for your specific business needs.
- Available
- Available
Stackforms
Create your workflow with simple user-friendly webforms to hide tools and infra complexity.
- Available
- Partial
With Cloudify it is less flexible and user-friendly, no widget and no designer
Infra Import
Automatically create an IaC service catalog from manually-deployed infrastructure and start with your automation quicker in a reproducible and controlled manner across all your environments.
- Available
- Not available
Role Based Access Control
Grant access and permissions based on user role.
- Available
- Available
Organization Policies
Set rules to enforce best practices and security compliance at organization level.
- Available
- Not available
Third party integration/plugin
Add any plugins through Open Source. Note: Cycloid allows co-development of features maintained by us but you can’t add your own plugin for now.
- Partial
- Partial
CI/CD Pipelines
Execute process automation through workflows in your environments with a pipeline engine and interact with third party APIs.
- Available
- Available
API & CLI
Take automation to another level and build scripts to automate any task in the “behind-the-scenes” toolbox.
- Available
- Available
Infra-as-Code & Resource Management
Quota Management
Allocate and keep track of public and private cloud resources in your organization.
- Available
- Not available
Pipeline overview
Monitor the status of your pipeline jobs at a glance including per build, version of resources used, output of automation scripts and more.
- Available
- Not available
Asset Inventory
Get a 360° view of your public and private cloud resources.
- Available
- Not available
Infrastructure mapping
Build graphical representations of your infrastructure and allow all relevant teams to see actively deployed resources and their connections in a simple, user-friendly way.
- Available
- Not available
Events
Track actions and participants in real time
- Available
- Not available
KPIs
Monitor the performance of your projects based on selected KPIs presented in a dashboard.
- Available
- Not available
Reporting
Get custom reports on cloud resource usage.
- Not available
- Not available
FinOps & GreenOps
Cost estimation
Estimate the cloud cost of your environments before they are deployed.
- Available
- Not available
Cloud cost management
Get a holistic overview of your cloud spending per cloud provider, project, region, date etc in a single place.
- Available
- Not available
Cloud Cost Optimization
View and execute recommendations for resource and cost optimization.
- On the roadmap
- Available
Reserved instances optimization
Analyse, automate and optimize your reserved instances that could also be financed
- Available
- Not available
Budget Management
Allocate a budget per organization, team or project across your cloud providers.
- On the roadmap
- Available
Cloud carbon footprint
Carbon footprint impact on your infrastructure.
- Available
- Not available
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