Backstage vs Koryx
Backstage
backstage.ioKoryx
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| Figure | Backstage | Koryx |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Internal Developer Platforms | 8.6 (#3) | 6.3 (#22) |
| Integrations | Integrations let Backstage read or publish data using providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, LDAP, and cloud providers. | Koryx says it integrates with Kubernetes, Argo CD, Helm, Crossplane, and cloud provider APIs. |
| Kubernetes | The Kubernetes feature aggregates a service’s deployments and uses the Kubernetes API to support cloud and multi-cloud environments. | Koryx describes itself as Kubernetes native and says it extends Kubernetes rather than replacing it. |
| Product | Backstage is an open-source framework for building developer portals. | Koryx describes itself as an open-source GitOps control plane for building Internal Developer Platforms on Kubernetes. |
| Purpose | Backstage is an open-source framework for creating and deploying developer portals, originally created at Spotify. | Koryx adds a platform layer to address fragmented tooling, operational complexity, and inconsistent developer experiences on Kubernetes. |
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In their own words
Backstage
Backstage is a free, open-source framework for building and deploying developer portals. Its software catalog records ownership and metadata for services, websites, libraries and data pipelines, for teams managing a small set of services or company catalogs of thousands. Software Templates can fill code skeletons with variables and publish generated projects to destinations such as GitHub or GitLab. TechDocs keeps documentation in a docs-like-code workflow close to code. Integrations can read or publish data through GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, LDAP and cloud providers. Teams can extend a portal with existing open-source plugins or build their own; Backstage Search can index sources such as TechDocs, Confluence and Stack Overflow. Its Kubernetes feature aggregates a service’s deployments through the Kubernetes API. Backstage is self-hosted. The standalone installation guide creates a local demo with an in-memory SQLite database and says this setup is not production-ready. It lists minimum requirements of 20 GB disk and 6 GB memory, with more disk needed as modules and plugins are added. Its threat model describes only rudimentary denial-of-service protection and recommends a protected deployment environment.