Terraform 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Terraform

4.8

(49)

Pricing

Starting at $20.00 per month

About Terraform

Terraform is a cloud infrastructure automation solution designed to help businesses with provisioning and managing cloud services, private infrastructure and public cloud through infrastructure as code. Key features include data migration, cloud computing, log access, configuration management, audit logs, data security, cost estimation and performance monitoring.

Teams using Terraform can employ infrastructure as code via version control system (VCS) integration, workspaces, variables, runs, infrastructure state, policy as code and clustering to automate multi-cloud governance and streamline background processes. With multi-cloud compliance and management, operators can maintain a consistent workflow using audit logs and encrypted variables. The self-service infrastructure enables enterprises to service infrastructure requests through predefined modules and provision own self-service infrastructure to increase developer agility.

Terraform provides team management using SSO functionality whilst allowing administrators to manage an organization according to teams, business units and users via role-based access controls. Pricing is available on monthly subscriptions and sup...

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Terraform Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $20.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$20.00

per user, per month

No plan information available

Terraform Features

Popular features found in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Data Migration
Load Balancing
Network Monitoring
Reporting/Analytics
More features of Terraform
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
API
Audit Management
Capacity Analytics
Cloud Computing
Compliance Management
Configurable Workflow
Configuration Management
Cost Management
Database Support
Data Security
Log Access
Monitoring
Multi-Cloud Management
Performance Analysis
Performance Monitoring
Role-Based Permissions
Secure Data Storage
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
Single Sign On
Third-Party Integrations
Version Control
Workflow Management

Terraform Integrations

Circonus

PagerDuty

ServiceNow

Microsoft Azure

Chef Enterprise Automation Stack

Docker

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Terraform User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

78%

22%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.6

Ruchir A.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

Excellent tool for multi-cloud deployments

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Terraform makes it convenient to manage a multi-cloud environment. It allowed me to create and maintains standard templates across environments for databases.

Cons:

Debugging and troubleshooting issues related to config and deployment can get difficult due to limited error messages and also the complexity of software

Richard Q.

Verified reviewer

Internet

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Terraform does exactly what is required

Using Terraform allows us to use the Infrastructure as Code pattern (IaC). This means, rather than logging into the cloud service providers and manually amending things and not being able to do all those things quickly, accurately, and repeatedly (for deployments), using Terraform allows us to do all of that automation.In addition, because the changes are done as code, they are submitted to a version control system (Git) and so reviewable, approvable (or not), merged, and automatically deployed by a secure pipeline setup.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ease of use and the speed at which bug fixes and related enhancements can be submitted via GitHub and be approved and so you end up running your amendments without needing to work around them.

Cons:

One aspect is that there is a library that doesn't include all aspects of Terraform and so dependent applications are not fully capable of exposing all the aspects.

Reasons for choosing Terraform

Terraform is a free and open source and interacts with all the services we required, not just AWS.

Petre I.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

The IAC solution when hosting with multiple providers

We have been exploring Terraform in paralel to other of its competitors to resolve the IAC needs for our project. It's currently winning on the syntax side but had some difficulties setting up keyvaults on Azure.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The biggest pro it has is hands down it's ability to facilitate infrastructure as code for projects that need more than Azure hosting. Also has a polished syntax.

Cons:

State files. Having to manage this is annoying and can be a huge pain. Having the state determined based on current installation is so much better.

Renato C.

Verified reviewer

Retail

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

Infrastructure as code

Overall, the experience is great. It allows us to support complex cloud infrastructures without the risks of manual work.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Terraform was the first big player in the infrastructure as code game and became a de-facto standard. Byupporting different providers, it allows integrating a huge variety of components and helps to avoid Cloud vendor lock-in.

Cons:

Breaking changes across versions make supporting it a bit more complex than it could be.

Reasons for choosing Terraform

We chose Terraform over AWS CloudFormation to avoid vendor lock-in, and to integrate providers outside of the AWS ecosystem.

Frank L.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2024

Hindsight is 20/20

So far nothing but praises. The team is all very impressed.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Makes most things easier. Learning HCL and transforming to Infrastructure-As-Code is is a paradigm shift and not an easy one but a very interesting one which will help us become more agile and deliver faster and more reliable.

Cons:

A steep learning curve for many and it a very different way of thinking doing IAC but Terraform makes it easy to deliver the same product consistently.

Mohit D.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

Terraform (IaaS) - Review

Overall experience is very good. As a cloud Engineer, for me Terraform solves most of the problems working with multi-cloud.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The best thing about Terraform is it's a free, open-source, and very easy-to-learn tool for provisioning and managing infrastructure as code. Some features like version control, reusability of modules, and multi-cloud features are very well integrated.

Cons:

State management can be a bit complex sometimes. While starting with Terraform, users need to learn a new language ie HCL.

Reasons for choosing Terraform

It's free, open-source, and easy to learn.

Atharva K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

Best IAAC option to work on Multicloud

Amazing software which really helped us to remove Human errors. We had created a Terraform meta repository which stored the state of whole GCP project and recreated any resources if not working properly/deleted. Helped a lot to manage huge infrastructures.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Terraform supports a lot of 3rd party tools. And there are modules from many Cloud providers. The thing I like is that many indie developers write useful modules for Terraform which really helps in automating important tasks. The sky is the limit in automation when you are using Terraform. For example, we used to use Venafi software for SSL renewal which was a manual process and the certificates were placed in buckets. But we were able to automate the process using Venafi provider and local-exec.

Cons:

User and Access management is a miss. We had to use workspace, and shell scripts to check the correct access of different resources.Also it can get complicated if you don't have a structure for your code. So using templates from start is a good way.

Reasons for choosing Terraform

Simplicity and 3rd party provider support

Finn M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Best IaaS tool there is

I have used Terraform for 3 years, I really enjoy using it and helped me get into the DevOps space.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software is the market leader in IaaS infrastructure deployments, as you can use multicloud deployments, relatively low learning curve, and team will be able to eventually deploy all services and infrastructure using Terraform which is many organization's, is best practice.

Cons:

There is not much I don't like form this software, is a pleasure to use and different way of approaching IaaS to environements.

Mo F.

Verified reviewer

Legal Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2021

All you can eat Infrastructure as Code!

I have worked with clients that have their deployments in a word doc with 50+ steps to follow. Most of the time the documentation is outdated. To follow a doc of 50+ manual steps you will spend a good 3 - 4 hours if uninterrupted. With terraform I can create infrastructures in minutes and the code is the instruction doc of how the systems are built. I can review a deployment's template and see little enhancements or requirements specific to the system. We don't have to give up quality either since human error is solved in code. Terraform allows me to scale up easily by adding variables like "count" to deploy a number of machines. The best part is that I can easily integrate it with Jenkins or Azure DevOps pipelines, Vaults for secret management, ansible, etc.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We work with multiple clients, one might have Google Cloud, the other Azure, another Oracle Cloud and some VMWare. Terraform makes it easy to deploy in the cloud or on prem. 80% of the time I am using modules that have been created by others which speeds up our deployments.

Cons:

Learning curve for IT teams that are used to manual deployments.

Reasons for choosing Terraform

Easier to use, community and vendor support.

Reasons for switching to Terraform

Easier to use

vikram s.

Verified reviewer

Banking

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Best Open Source tool for manager infrastructure as code(IAC)

Best tool for manage infrastructure code ,version and reuse to multiple environment. It is very easy to learn, implement . It has great community to support and solve issues. Terraform supports multiple clouds and it is very easy to integrate. We can use automate template to build application faster.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Terraform is best cloud management tool which provide infrastructure as code service . we are using terraform for AWS infrastructure management as code. We can use multiple workspace for our project and destroy workspace after use. Terraform uses HashiCrop language for creating human readable infrastructure code we can reuse same code , maintain version and source control. Terraform registry provide ready to use quick feature for easy development .

Cons:

The only cons I found that sometime it takes times.

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