configure8 vs Kusion
configure8
configure8.io
Kusion
kusion.kusionstack.ioSide by side
| Figure | configure8 | Kusion |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $19/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 1 |
| Spec score · Internal Developer Platforms | 8.4 (#5) | 8.0 (#9) |
| Extensibility | Configure8 says customers can use its API to ingest and organize data from other tools and sources. | Kusion describes itself as a lightweight, pure client-side solution with APIs for integration and automation and an expanding model ecosystem. |
| Product | Configure8 describes itself as a developer portal for cataloging engineering systems, achieving standards, and enabling velocity through self-service. | Kusion describes itself as an intent-driven platform orchestrator at the core of an internal developer platform. |
| Support | The free tier includes community support, while Enterprise includes white glove support and success; the site also describes a free guided pilot with unlimited access and support. | The documentation directs users to Slack or GitHub issues for help and feedback. |
Plans
In their own words
configure8
Configure8 is a developer portal for cataloging engineering systems and enabling standards-based self-service. Its catalog organizes applications, services, data pipelines, ML jobs, environments and cloud resources with related information. Engineers can use a no-code interface to run provisioning, maintenance and other day-two actions through existing automations and guardrails. Scorecards assess reliability, security, architecture, development maturity, DORA metrics and other standards using built-in or custom checks.
Listed integrations include GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, AWS Security Hub, Jira, PagerDuty, Datadog, Okta and Microsoft Entra ID. An API can ingest and organize data from other tools. Configure8 states that it holds SOC 2 certification and encrypts cloud customer data in transit with TLS 1.2+ and at rest with AES-256. The free plan costs nothing and includes unlimited catalog users and integrations, subject to data and feature limits. Paid plans start at $19 per user per month billed annually. Enterprise is listed at $22.89 a month, while the plan details also state $22.89 per month per user.
Kusion
Kusion is a free, open-source platform orchestrator for internal developer platforms. Its AppConfiguration lets developers describe application workloads and resource dependencies without setting environment-specific values. The declarative model combines workload, accessory, pipeline, and dependency concepts. The documented process moves through Write, Generate, and Apply, with a three-way diff preview before changes are applied. Kusion currently applies operations to Kubernetes, Terraform, and on-premises infrastructure. Platform engineers can create reusable modules to standardize deployments and support developer self-service. A built-in delivery pipeline can be extended with customized plugin steps managed by platform owners. The project describes security and compliance support through base models, policy-as-code guardrails, and automatic injection of accessory secrets into workloads. External secret-store guides cover AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and Viettel Cloud. Kusion is a lightweight client-side solution with APIs for integration and automation. Its CLI installation methods cover macOS, Linux, and Windows. The project calls itself early and rapidly iterated; help and feedback are available through Slack or GitHub issues.