Cycloid vs Ravion

Cycloid is an internal developer portal and platform for infrastructure self-service, orchestration, and governance. Developers can request and deploy infrastructure through Blueprints and Forms, using standardized workflows involving Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Argo CD. Governance features include policy checks, role-based access controls, approvals, and audit trails. Teams can connect tools such as Sentry, SonarQube, Notion, Git, and cloud providers through plugins, and coordinate CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or Cycloid's Native Runner. Cloud Cost Management lists AWS, GCP, and Azure, with other providers available for integration if needed. Deployment options include SaaS, dedicated SaaS, self-hosted, and hybrid; air-gapped operation is described for self-hosted deployments. Cycloid says its API is documented in Swagger, and its CLI documentation lists GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows. A free SaaS plan covers up to five users and one workspace. The listed Advanced plan is $45 a month billed annually; pricing notes give a starting point of $29/user/mo annually. Infra Import is beta and excluded from the standard support SLA.

Ravion is a framework and governed execution layer for internal developer platforms. It lets developers and AI agents provision, deploy and operate applications in a customer's AWS account. Platform teams can package existing Terraform as reusable modules with typed inputs, which developers use through forms. Each module instance is tracked as a stack with reviewable plans, approval gates, managed state and versioned resource history. Ravion supports deployments for containers, Lambdas and static sites, including rollbacks and deployment visibility. It works with Terraform providers and connects to AWS CloudWatch logs and metrics, Systems Manager Parameter Store and Secrets Manager, plus external CI through its API and CLI. Ravion says it uses short-lived, operation-scoped credentials through AWS STS and OIDC rather than storing AWS access keys. Infrastructure, application traffic, runtime secrets, builds, Terraform runs and pipeline runners stay in the customer's AWS account. AI agents can propose configuration changes and review dry-run diffs, subject to plans, policies and approval gates. AWS is supported today; Cloudflare, GCP and Azure are planned. The Individuals plan is free; Team is pay as you go, with module prices and pipeline-minute costs listed.