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Cycloid vs. Quali
Compare the two platforms
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Written by
The Cycloid team
Platform engineering
Published
July 30th 2026
Read time
6 min
Quali provides enterprise software for Cloud and DevOps automation. With its flagship CloudShell platform and blueprint-based approach, Quali gives developers, QA, and IT operations self-service access to on-demand application and infrastructure environments across private, public, and hybrid-cloud deployments offering a self-service platform for hybrid Infrastructure orchestration and automation.
Cycloid’s full-scale offer
In contrast to Quali which comes from the traditional world of Cloud management platforms addressing Ops needs, Cycloid is focused on the developer experience in a Cloud, DevOps, GitOps and Open-Source approach. We provide an end-to-end platform ecosystem already integrated with modules around Governance, an easy-to-use self-service portal and forms, more features on improving operations and a complete set of FinOps and GreenOps modules.
Cycloid sustainable platform engineering promotes efficient infrastructure & software delivery, alongside FinOps & Green IT practices in one platform. It improves the developer experience by allowing anyone to use tools, cloud and automation without having to become an expert. It also improves operational efficiency by decreasing the number of tickets opened by end-users.
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 not based per deployment but per user. This helps companies to scale freely and democratize hybrid-cloud and DevOps adoption for everyone in your organization – see our take on platform engineering for executives and planning a DevOps rollout.
Side by side
Feature comparison
Feature
Quali
Installation
Self-hosted
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
- 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
Stackforms comes with a lot of widgets; interacting with all Cycloid features. Quali is less flexible due to a predefined template and do-it-yourself workflow.
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 (RBAC)
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
- 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 plugins for now. Quali Torque is focused on CI plugins allowing CI to interact with Quali Torque to create/launch environments
- Partial
- Partial
CI/CD Pipelines
Execute process automation through workflows in your environments with a pipeline engine and interact with third party APIs.
- Available
- Partial
Quali offers some native automation + third party plugins but no flexible open source CI/CD agnostic.
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
- Available
Drift Detection
Monitor the status of your pipeline jobs at a glance including per build, version of resources used, output of automation scripts and more.
- On the roadmap
Cycloid currently uses existing tools inside pipelines. A native integration of Drift Detection is on the roadmap
- 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
- Available
Events
Track actions and participants in real time
- Available
- Partial
Predefined events in Quali vs Event manager in Cycloid where you can set up custom events.
KPIs
Monitor the performance of your projects based on selected KPIs presented in a dashboard.
- Available
- Available
FinOps & GreenOps
Cost estimation
Estimate the cloud cost of your environments before they are deployed.
- Available
- Partial
Cycloid computes the price dynamically based on the IaC and the environment’s parameters. Quali has a static cost estimation defined by the blueprint author.
Cloud cost management
Get a holistic overview of your cloud spending per cloud provider, project, region, date etc in a single place.
- Available
- Available
Cloud Cost Optimization
View and execute recommendations for resource and cost optimization.
- On the roadmap
- Not available
Budget Management
Allocate a budget per organization, team or project across your cloud providers.
- On the roadmap
- Not available
Cloud carbon footprint
Carbon footprint impact on your infrastructure.
- Available
- Not available
If the information above is inaccurate or outdated, please contact us at marketing@cycloid.io and we’ll set it right straight away!
