Nullstone vs Substrate
Nullstone
nullstone.ioSubstrate
substratecore.comSide by side
| Figure | Nullstone | Substrate |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $50/mo | $299/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 7 | 4 |
| Spec score · Internal Developer Platforms | 9.0 (#2) | 7.6 (#13) |
| Access controls | Nullstone supports role-based access controls to help enforce least-privilege access. | Security features include organization, project, and resource-level permissions, custom roles, and permission inheritance and overrides. |
| Integrations | The documentation lists Datadog, NewRelic, and SumoLogic for logging and metrics, and CircleCI, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions for CI/CD. | The integrations page lists GitHub, GitLab, self-hosted Git, Docker Hub, Amazon ECR, Google GCR, Azure ACR, and private OCI registries. |
| Product | Nullstone is a developer platform that helps teams launch and manage applications on cloud providers such as AWS. | Substrate is a control plane for managing and optimizing Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, and databases across cloud providers. |
| Secrets | The security page says secrets are stored in a vault such as AWS Secrets Manager and remain in the customer’s cloud account. | The security page says secrets use AES-256 encryption at rest and support rotation, revocation, scoped access, and access logging. |
Plans
Nullstone
- IndividualFree
- IndividualFree
- Startup$50 a month
- Startup$50 a month
- Growth$100 a month
- Growth$100 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
Substrate
- FreeFree
- Starter$299 a month
- Growth$999 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Nullstone
Nullstone is a developer platform for launching and managing applications on cloud providers such as AWS. It can run workloads as containers, serverless apps, static sites, or applications on servers. Preview environments can be created from a pull request or branch and removed after review or testing. Teams provision infrastructure with Terraform modules they can fork, customize, or create from scratch. Nullstone launches infrastructure in customers’ cloud accounts and says it does not access their data; secrets remain in that account in a vault such as AWS Secrets Manager. Its security information lists SOC 2 Type II certification and role-based access controls. Listed integrations include Datadog, NewRelic, SumoLogic, CircleCI, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions. The open-source CLI supports deployments, infrastructure provisioning, data retrieval, and module management on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The Individual plan is free at free; Startup costs $50 a month and includes two users, two environments, and 30 deploys per week. The SaaS service is hosted only and cannot be independently run or installed by customers.
Substrate
Substrate has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.