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tacos.guru

An interactive evaluation tool for comparing TACOS (Terraform Automation & Collaboration Software) platforms. Compare Spacelift, Env0, Scalr, Terrateam, Terramate Cloud, HCP Terraform, and OpenTaco across 21 weighted criteria — and estimate monthly costs based on your team size, resources, and run volume.

Live site: tacos.guru

Features

  • Evaluation tab — 21 criteria with adjustable weight sliders. Changing weights recalculates and re-sorts platform scores in real time. Expand any platform row to see per-criterion rationales.
  • Pricing tab — 3 input sliders (users, resources under management, monthly runs). Auto-selects the cheapest tier per platform. Override tiers manually by clicking them in the expanded card.

Running locally

# Requires pnpm
pnpm install
pnpm dev

Open http://localhost:5173.

# Production build (output in dist/)
pnpm build
pnpm preview

Tech stack

Data

All evaluation data lives in a single file: public/evaluation.json

It contains:

  • criteria — 21 evaluation criteria with default weights (1–5) and categories (Critical / High / Medium / Low / Nice-to-have)
  • platforms — 7 platforms, each with scores (0–3) per criterion, rationale text, and metadata
  • pricing — tier definitions for each platform including base prices, per-unit costs, feature gates, and whether a price is published or estimated

Scores and pricing were researched from public vendor documentation in February 2026.

Evaluation criteria

# Criterion Weight Category
1 CDKTF/CDK Terrain workflow support 5 Critical
2 OpenTofu support 5 Critical
3 No Kubernetes requirement 5 Critical
4 RBAC & SSO integration 5 Critical
5 Dependency orchestration 4 High
6 Drift detection 4 High
7 Secrets management (AWS OIDC) 4 High
8 Pricing suitability 4 High
9 Golden paths / blueprints 3 Medium
10 Migration path from Atlantis 3 Medium
11 Custom workflows / hooks 3 Medium
12 Private module registry 3 Medium
13 InfraCost / cost estimation 3 Medium
14 Integrations (MS Teams, DataDog) 3 Medium
15 Keep S3+DynamoDB state backends 2 Low
16 Visualizations / resource graphs 2 Low
17 OPA / Conftest policies 3 Medium
18 AI features 1 Nice-to-have
19 Ephemeral environments 1 Nice-to-have
20 Terraform provider 1 Nice-to-have
21 Multi-cloud support 1 Nice-to-have

All weights are adjustable in the app. Max weighted score: 195 (weight total × 3).

Submitting corrections

Scores, rationales, and pricing data go out of date. To suggest a fix:

  1. Click Submit correction in the app footer — it opens GitHub's web editor for evaluation.json
  2. Make your change and open a pull request
  3. Or open an issue describing the inaccuracy

Deployment

Deployed to GitHub Pages via .github/workflows/deploy.yml on every push to main. Custom domain configured via public/CNAME.