What Pulumi does

Pulumi is a Seattle-based infrastructure-as-code (IaC) company founded in 2017 that provides an open-source Apache 2.0 engine plus a managed SaaS platform (Pulumi Cloud) enabling engineering teams to define, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure using general-purpose programming languages (TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, and YAML) across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and 300+ providers via the Pulumi Registry. The core product surface has expanded into a unified platform spanning Pulumi ESC for centralized secrets and configuration management, Pulumi Insights & Governance for multi-cloud asset discovery and policy-as-code enforcement (150+ built-in compliance packs including CIS, NIST, HITRUST, PCI DSS), an Internal Developer Platform module for golden paths and self-service, Pulumi Deployments for cloud-hosted CI/CD, the Pulumi Automation API for embedding IaC into applications, and Pulumi Neo, an AI agent purpose-built for infrastructure that generates code, performs automatic policy remediation, and operates end-to-end with RBAC and policy awareness across CLI, GitHub, and Slack surfaces. The platform is used by 350,000+ engineers across 4,000+ companies including Snowflake, NVIDIA, Moderna, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Atlassian, Docker, Unity, Supabase, and Deloitte.

Pulumi monetizes via a freemium-to-enterprise pricing model with four publicly disclosed tiers: a free Individual tier ($0/month), Team at $40/month with 500 included resources, Enterprise at $400/month with 2,000 included resources, and a custom-priced Business Critical tier that adds self-hosting, SCIM, audit log export, professional services, and 24x7 support. Revenue is layered through usage-based overage billing (hourly metered resources and ESC secrets), prepaid committed-usage contracts with volume discounts, and paid professional services including Terraform migration assistance. GTM combines product-led growth (free signup, 14-day trials, Apache 2.0 open-source engine with 25.3K GitHub stars, 10,000+ developer Slack community) with a direct enterprise field-sales motion for Business Critical and large Enterprise deals. Total disclosed funding is approximately $98.5M across four rounds led by Madrona and NEA, with the most recent being a $41M Series C in October 2023; the company has 101-250 employees and has been recognized on Deloitte's 2025 Technology Fast 500 list.

Name

Pulumi

Legal name

Pulumi Corp.

Website

https://www.pulumi.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Pulumi is a Seattle-based infrastructure-as-code platform offering an open-source engine and managed cloud service that lets teams define cloud infrastructure in TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, and YAML across 300+ providers, serving 4,000+ companies including Snowflake, NVIDIA, Mercedes-Benz, and Moderna via a freemium-to-enterprise pricing model with an AI infrastructure agent (Pulumi Neo).

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Infrastructure Management

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Cloud-Native Development (Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices) (BPAEACAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Managed Application Platforms (App PaaS & Runtime Services) (HDABAAAD), Kubernetes & Container Platform Management (Private Cloud) (HDABABAC), Cloud-Native/Kubernetes Observability (HDABAJAF), Data App Builders (Forms, Portals & Internal Tools) (HDAEAKAK), Attack Detection & Response for Cloud/SaaS (SOC for Cloud) (HDADAGAJ), Cloud Compliance, Audit & Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM/GRC) (HDABAHAI)

Keywords

• Infrastructure as code
• Cloud engineering platform
• Secrets configuration management
• Cloud governance compliance
• Internal developer platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription (Team and Enterprise tiers): Recurring monthly subscriptions for the Pulumi Cloud Team edition at $40/month and Enterprise edition at $400/month. Includes a base allocation of managed resources (500 for Team, 2,000 for Enterprise) with volume tiers and discounts for committed prepay contracts.
2. Usage-based resource overage billing: Hourly consumption-based pricing on IaC resources beyond included allocation ($0.00025/hour for Team, starting at $0.0005/hour for Enterprise). Also billed hourly for ESC secrets ($0.000685/hour for Team, $0.001/hour for Enterprise) and metered for ESC secrets API calls ($0.10 per 10K calls after 10K free). Billed in arrears monthly.
3. Freemium (Individual and open source): Free forever Individual tier for single users with 1 user, 500 free deployment minutes, and 5M free Pulumi Neo tokens/month. Open source Pulumi engine (Apache 2.0) is free forever; non-profit open-source projects qualify for the Open-Source Free Edition.
4. Business Critical and Self-hosting contracts: Custom-priced Business Critical tier offering self-hosting, built-in compliance packages (NIST, PCI, DSS), SCIM, audit log export, volume invoicing, private Slack channel, professional services, and 24x7 support. Sold via sales contracts with multi-year invoicing.
5. Professional services: Paid professional services, onboarding, training, Terraform migration assistance, private Slack channel, and SLA-backed support packages available in Enterprise and Business Critical tiers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Pulumi builds and sells an open-source infrastructure-as-code engine and a unified managed cloud platform (Pulumi Cloud) that lets platform engineering teams define, deploy, and govern cloud infrastructure in real programming languages across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and 300+ providers. The offering spans IaC, secrets and configuration management (ESC), policy/governance (Insights), an internal developer platform (IDP), deployment automation, and an AI agent (Neo) for autonomous infrastructure tasks.

Product overview

Pulumi offers a single unified infrastructure platform (Pulumi Cloud) built on an open-source, Apache 2.0-licensed infrastructure-as-code engine (Pulumi IaC). The platform is structured as a core engine plus integrated modules: Pulumi IaC is the foundational product that defines infrastructure in TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, and YAML across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and 300+ providers; Pulumi Cloud is the managed SaaS backend that hosts state, deployments, and the dashboard; Pulumi ESC centralizes secrets and configuration across Vault, AWS, Azure, Doppler, Infisical, and others; Pulumi Insights & Governance adds multi-cloud asset discovery and policy-as-code enforcement; Pulumi IDP exposes self-service golden paths and templates; Pulumi Deployments & Workflows automate pulumi up via cloud-hosted runners; Pulumi Neo is the AI agent layer for code generation, autonomous infrastructure actions, and policy remediation; and the Pulumi Service Provider lets users manage Pulumi Cloud itself as code. Together these form a complete platform for both developer infrastructure-as-code and enterprise platform engineering.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Pulumi Neo: AI-powered infrastructure engineering agent built for infrastructure tasks, extended into CLI, GitHub, and Slack workflows.
• Pulumi ESC
• Pulumi Cloud
• Pulumi Insights
• Pulumi IDP
• Pulumi Deployments

Products and services

• Pulumi Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Open-source infrastructure-as-code engine that lets developers and platform engineers define, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure in real programming languages across 300+ providers via the Pulumi Registry.
• Pulumi Cloud Managed SaaS backend that hosts Pulumi IaC state, secrets, deployment runners, drift detection, RBAC, SAML SSO, audit logs, and the unified platform dashboard tying together IaC, ESC, Neo, Insights & Governance, and IDP.
• Pulumi Neo AI agent purpose-built for infrastructure that generates, debugs, and refactors IaC code, runs end-to-end autonomous infrastructure tasks, performs automatic policy remediation, executes natural-language queries across cloud resources, and is exposed through CLI, GitHub, Slack, and MCP integrations.
• Pulumi ESC (Environments, Secrets, and Configuration) Centralized secrets and configuration management service that aggregates secrets from Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, Doppler, Infisical, 1Password, and others behind a single interface, with dynamic OIDC credentials, rotation, and customer-managed keys.
• Pulumi Insights & Governance Multi-cloud asset inventory and policy-enforcement layer providing AI-powered natural-language queries, 150+ built-in policy packs (CIS, NIST, HITRUST, PCI DSS), preventative and audit policies, drift detection, and audit log export across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Pulumi Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Self-service infrastructure layer that lets platform engineers define reusable components, golden-path templates, organization templates, no-code stacks, and a private registry so developers can provision infrastructure through code, low-code YAML, or no-code portals, with a Backstage plugin.
• Pulumi Deployments & Workflows Cloud-hosted deployment runners that automate pulumi up with deployment triggers, drift detection, scheduled operations, TTL stacks, review stacks, webhooks, pulumi-managed and customer-managed runners, and integrations with GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, CircleCI, and others.
• Pulumi Automation API Programmatic SDK surface that lets developers embed Pulumi IaC operations directly into applications for custom UIs, CI/CD integration, and integration testing of stacks.
• Pulumi Service Provider (pulumiservice) First-party Pulumi provider (v1.0 generated from the Pulumi Cloud OpenAPI specification) that exposes Pulumi Cloud resources including fine-grained RBAC, Pulumi IDP, and audit log export as IaC, enabling Pulumi Cloud to be managed by Pulumi itself.
• Self-Hosted Pulumi Cloud Self-hostable distribution of Pulumi Cloud for organizations with data-control requirements, available in the Business Critical edition and deployable via Docker Compose, ECS, EKS, AKS, GKE, or in air-gapped environments.

Named customers34 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration41 records

AI capability10 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• CoreWeaveflagshipTechnology or Integration · 19 May 2026CoreWeave and Pulumi launched infrastructure-as-code integrations connecting CoreWeave's GPU cloud infrastructure directly to Pulumi's development and deployment tooling for AI workflows. AI teams can provision, track, and deploy GPU workloads through code-based workflows. Pulumi released a CoreWeave provider (v1.0.1 published May 18, 2026) for IaC of GPU cloud resources, positioning CoreWeave within the broader AI software development stack.
• NVIDIAflagshipTechnology or Integration · 19 May 2026Pulumi launched a new infrastructure-as-code provider for NVIDIA AI Cluster Runtime (NVIDIA AICR, v0.1.9) to simplify AI training and inference workloads at scale. The integration enables Pulumi users to deploy NVIDIA AI Cluster Runtime resources via code as part of the agent-native AI deployment offering, in collaboration with leaders in the superintelligence space.
• GitHubcoreTechnology or Integration · 19 May 2026Pulumi extended its Neo AI agent into GitHub workflows as part of the agent-native infrastructure push. Pulumi also offers a GitHub Pulumi app for version control integration (Pulumi GitHub App) and Neo code reviews analyze pull requests. GitHub Actions is one of Pulumi's first-class CI/CD integrations.
• SlackcoreTechnology or Integration · 19 May 2026Pulumi extended its Neo AI agent into Slack workflows so developers and platform teams can deploy infrastructure from chat. Slack integration is included in the Team, Enterprise, and Business Critical tiers. Pulumi also publishes a dedicated Slack provider for IaC.
• Superintelligence partners (unnamed)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 May 2026Pulumi is collaborating with 'leaders in the superintelligence space' to simplify AI training and inference workloads as part of its AI deployment offering. Partners are unnamed in the source materials.
• GitLabcoreTechnology or IntegrationPulumi provides a GitLab version control integration (Pulumi GitLab App) and a GitLab CI/CD integration, supported across documentation as a first-class CI/CD pipeline target.
• Microsoft Azure DevOpscoreTechnology or IntegrationPulumi maintains an Azure DevOps integration (pulumi-azuredevops provider) and an Azure DevOps CI/CD integration documented as a first-class pipeline target.
• HashiCorp (Vault / Terraform)coreTechnology or IntegrationPulumi publishes HashiCorp Vault and Terraform providers in its registry, supports any Terraform provider bridging, and offers Terraform-to-Pulumi migration tooling and conversion. Pulumi's ESC integrates with Vault, including dynamic credentials and OIDC login.
• DeloittecoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerDeloitte is both a Pulumi customer and an implementation/consulting partner showcased in the AWS Architecture Blog case study, which cites an 89% improvement in testing environment provisioning time using Pulumi on EKS with vCluster.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• DuploCloud: DevOps-as-a-Service platform that automates cloud infrastructure provisioning with compliance guardrails. Competes with Pulumi in the developer self-service and compliance-driven IaC space, particularly for regulated industries.
• Crossplane: Open-source Kubernetes-native infrastructure orchestration framework from Upbound. Competes with Pulumi in the multi-cloud IaC space by extending Kubernetes control planes to manage cloud resources, particularly attractive to Kubernetes-centric platform teams.
• Firefly: Cloud asset management and IaC governance platform that inventories multi-cloud resources and detects drift. Overlaps with Pulumi Insights & Governance in the policy-as-code and compliance posture space.
• OpenTofu: Open-source fork of Terraform under the Linux Foundation with an active community and growing enterprise adoption. Competes with Pulumi by offering a free, community-governed alternative to HashiCorp's Terraform, with overlapping multi-cloud provider coverage.

Direct peers

• env0: Self-service infrastructure automation platform with IaC orchestration for Terraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation. Overlaps directly with Pulumi Deployments and IDP, offering policy enforcement, cost controls, and collaborative workflows.
• HashiCorp (Terraform): Direct competitor in infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and Terraform Cloud. Both target platform engineers with declarative cloud provisioning, multi-cloud coverage, and enterprise governance features. HashiCorp was acquired by IBM, raising the competitive stakes significantly.
• Scalr: Cloud infrastructure automation platform supporting Terraform, OpenTofu, and Pulumi with hierarchical policy/governance models. Competes in the same enterprise IaC management tier with self-service workflows and cost controls.
• Spacelift: IaC orchestration and collaboration platform supporting Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes. Targets the same platform engineering persona with policy-as-code, drift detection, and self-service infrastructure workflows.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Azure Bicep / ARM: Microsoft's native IaC languages for Azure, with Bicep positioned as a more developer-friendly abstraction over ARM templates. Competes with Pulumi for Azure-centric enterprise platform teams and is heavily integrated with Azure tooling.
• AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK): AWS's official IaC framework using general-purpose programming languages (TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, .NET). Directly overlaps Pulumi's value proposition of real-language IaC, but is restricted to AWS-centric workloads and bundled with the AWS ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/pulumicorp
• GitHubgithub.com/pulumi/pulumi
• Facebookfacebook.com/PulumiCorp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pulumi

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors4 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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