Cycloid
Cycloid: Cycloid brings self-service infrastructure, governance, FinOps, and multi-cloud orchestration together. Ranked #2 of 31 in Cloud Automation Software by our editors (9.2/10); pricing: Paid; best for governed infrastructure platform teams.
At a glance
- Editor score9.2 / 10
- PricingPaid
- Best forGoverned infrastructure platform teams
- Free planNo
- Paid from$29/user/mo
- Cloud coverageHybrid
- Founded2015 · Paris, France
- Facts checked20 Sep 2026
Where it wins
- Self-service provisioning through reusable, versioned StackForms and Stacks
- Multi-cloud orchestration across AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and on-premises environments
- Governance features include policy guardrails, RBAC, quotas, and approvals
Where it doesn't
- No free plan for teams wanting to start without a paid commitment
- Advanced FinOps and GreenOps features require the Advanced plan
- Enterprise capabilities such as MFA and custom plugins require the Enterprise tier
Our verdict on Cycloid
Cycloid is a commercial internal developer platform and cloud management product for platform engineering teams, enterprises, and managed service providers. It combines self-service infrastructure provisioning through StackForms and reusable Stacks with infrastructure-as-code orchestration, multi-cloud management, policy-as-code governance, RBAC, approval workflows, CI/CD orchestration, cost management, and carbon-footprint tracking. Deployment options include SaaS, self-hosted, and dedicated SaaS configurations, with support for hybrid environments.
Pricing is organized around annual billing. The Starter plan costs $29 per user per month and includes SaaS deployment, one organization, Stack and StackForms, platform orchestration, asset inventory, and native RBAC. Advanced costs $59 per user per month and adds SaaS or self-hosted deployment, multiple organizations, cloud cost estimation, cloud cost management, cloud carbon-footprint tracking, and custom RBAC. Enterprise supports SaaS, self-hosted, or dedicated SaaS deployments and adds custom plugins, MFA, approvals, quota management, and infrastructure import; pricing is available through sales. A FinOps & GreenOps Only plan costs $29 per user per month and covers cloud cost management and carbon-footprint tracking.
Cycloid fits teams that need a governed path from developer self-service to controlled infrastructure operations. Its ecosystem covers AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Pulumi, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI/CD, while a REST API with Swagger documentation supports platform integration. Teams seeking only basic cloud provisioning may find its governance, orchestration, and cost-management scope broader than necessary. Cycloid is better suited to organizations standardizing infrastructure workflows across clouds, accounts, teams, and approval boundaries.
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Cycloid fact sheet
| Free plan | No |
|---|---|
| Paid from | $29/user/mo |
| Cloud coverage | Hybrid |
| Workflow builder | Yes |
| Policy governance | Yes |
| Scheduled automation | Yes |
| Self-hosted option | Yes |
| Approval controls | Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud, Self-hosted |
| Platforms | Web, Linux |
| Compliance & security | ISO 27001, SSO/SAML |
| Support | Docs |
| Built for | Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise (editorial estimate) |
| Integrations | 20 integrations: AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, Terraform, OpenTofu … |
| Pricing | Paid (source) |
| Website | cycloid.io |
| Facts checked | 20 Sep 2026 |
Cycloid integrations
Cycloid lists 20 integrations on its own site.
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- VMware
- Terraform
- OpenTofu
- Ansible
- Pulumi
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Azure DevOps
- Bitbucket
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
- Helm
- ArgoCD
- Datadog
- Prometheus
- Grafana
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