ActiveState Platform vs Determinate Systems
ActiveState Platform
docs.activestate.com
Determinate Systems
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| Figure | ActiveState Platform | Determinate Systems |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 0 |
| Spec score · Software Supply Chain Security Software | 9.1 (#1) | 7.8 (#14) |
| Compliance | ActiveState says it achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification and provides access to its audit report and third-party penetration testing results through its Trust Center, with some materials available on request. | The maker says FlakeHub is FedRAMP High authorized and its package builds use SOC 2 Type II infrastructure. |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States |
| Integrations | The maker lists JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, Kubernetes, Cloudera, CI/CD pipelines, IDEs, Trivy, and Wiz as integrations. | FlakeHub documents authentication with GitHub, GitLab, Semaphore, Buildkite, AWS STS, and Google Cloud, and identity-provider support for GitHub, Microsoft Entra, and Okta. |
| What it does | The Platform hosts custom runtimes whose projects define components, track project history, and provide deployment instructions. | Determinate is a platform for using Nix across developer laptops, CI, cloud infrastructure, and edge devices. |
| Who it serves | Organizations can group projects for a company, department, or team and manage member access and runtime permissions by user role. | The maker describes the platform as designed for engineering teams and organizations with demanding security requirements, from startups to large enterprises. |
Plans
ActiveState Platform
- Free organizationFree
- Paid organizationPriced on request
In their own words
ActiveState Platform
ActiveState Platform hosts custom runtimes assembled from source. Projects specify runtime components, preserve project history and provide deployment instructions; their artifacts may include packages, dependencies, patches and bundles, but not contributors’ first-party code. Create projects in the web interface or with the State Tool CLI, then deploy and activate them locally. Projects can remain personal, be shared with an organization or be public. The platform supports Windows, macOS and Linux deployments, and its GraphQL API can build open-source software for different operating systems and languages without requiring users to manage build infrastructure. It provides immutable SBOMs in SPDX formats and describes build safeguards including reproducible builds, checksum checks and isolated containers. A free organization plan costs nothing and is limited to public projects. Curated Catalog annual pricing is $25,000 for fewer than 100 employees, $50,000 for 100–999 employees and $150,000 for 1,000 or more; those prices do not apply to legacy Platform subscriptions.
Determinate Systems
Determinate Systems provides an end-to-end Nix toolchain for installation, collaboration, and deployment across developer laptops, CI, cloud, and edge devices. The platform combines Determinate Nix, FlakeHub, and Determinate Secure Packages. Determinate Nix adds lazy trees, parallel evaluation, stable flakes by default, and a native Linux builder for macOS. FlakeHub offers binary caching, private flakes, organization controls, semantic versioning, and deployment of NixOS, Home Manager, and nix-darwin configurations without local evaluation. Secure Packages is a supported Nixpkgs replacement with curated packages and cryptographic signing. It includes CycloneDX 1.5 SBOM generation, policy checks, and vulnerability scanning; critical vulnerabilities are said to be patched within seven days. Distributions receive at least 12 months of support, with one in four receiving 60 months. Platforms listed are Linux, macOS, Windows, and web. A free plan is available.