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Cloudcraft vs Upbound Crossplane comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Cloudcraft
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
85th
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Upbound Crossplane
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of Cloudcraft is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Upbound Crossplane is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Upbound Crossplane0.3%
Cloudcraft0.2%
Other99.5%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

PrinceKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at Rishabh Software
Visual planning has transformed how our teams document aws architecture and estimate costs
The best features Cloudcraft offers include visual AWS architecture, the ability to create professional AWS diagrams quickly, significant time savings during solution design, cost estimation, and having estimated infrastructure costs directly within the architecture diagram. Cloudcraft also makes collaboration easier as architecture diagrams can be shared across infrastructure teams. AWS best practice visualization is there, encouraging better architecture design by making it easy to visualize high availability, multi-AZ deployment, public versus private subnets, and security layers. Creating architecture documentation that previously required several hours can now be completed much more quickly. Architecture design and documentation have had the biggest impact on my team. These are part of our day-to-day work that were time-consuming previously, and now they are easy to accomplish.
Diego Paradeda - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Philips
Automated infrastructure deployment has reduced our backend release time from days to hours
I found an issue with features that was difficult for me when we needed to retrieve some tags or IDs of a resource that we deployed using Upbound Crossplane, for example, the RDS. We encountered a problem where we needed to use the ID of the RDS in another document that we have, making it difficult to return this information using Upbound Crossplane deployment. I believe Upbound Crossplane could be improved by possibly having a feature that can return tags, IDs, or resources that were deployed inside AWS, such as needing to return the ID of the VPC that we create when using Upbound Crossplane. I think the current state of Upbound Crossplane is already good enough.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Cloudcraft has positively impacted our organization as infrastructure documentation is more consistent and easier to maintain."
"Cloudcraft is an amazing tool for this use case."
"We went from having a 28-member troubleshooting team down to four to five members of the platform engineering team."
"Upbound Crossplane has impacted our organization positively as it has been a transformative experience because the main thing about transformation is how we were able to make our lives easier as engineers."
"Upbound Crossplane impacts my organization positively because, from our perspective, we need to rely on fewer resources."
"Upbound Crossplane has positively impacted our organization by allowing us to reduce our deployment time from three days to three hours for the entire back-end and entire infrastructure."
"The best features Upbound Crossplane offers are infrastructure as Kubernetes APIs and self-service infrastructure, where developers can provision resources without cloud credentials, and its strong multi-cloud support that makes it useful in managing AWS, Azure, and GCP from a single control plane with valuable GitOps integration."
"The time required to complete an environment setup was reduced from about one or two weeks to forty to fifty minutes."
"When I provisioned PostgreSQL and S3 buckets through Crossplane, I noticed improvements in deployment speed, reliability, and team collaboration."
"Before choosing Upbound Crossplane, I evaluated various options, but I only found Upbound Crossplane to be the best choice."
 

Cons

"I think Cloudcraft can be improved by possibly being a little less expensive."
"There are areas for improvement in Cloudcraft, such as more cloud service coverage and quicker support for new AWS services releases."
"One area where Upbound Crossplane can be improved is with API rate limiting."
"Upbound Crossplane was not stable in my experience."
"Upbound Crossplane can be improved if they can add more AI agentic workflows."
"Regarding Upbound Crossplane's capabilities, I feel the governance and security is something which is lacking."
"I found an issue with features that was difficult for me when we needed to retrieve some tags or IDs of a resource that we deployed using Upbound Crossplane, for example, the RDS."
"Regarding Upbound Crossplane, I see room for enhancement in synchronizing the state file of Crossplane with Terraform, as 90% of organizations have generally implemented Terraform and have their own specific, environment-specific Terraform state files."
"The documentation needs to be updated regarding the needed improvements for Upbound Crossplane. There is very little documentation online, and there are no tutorials for Upbound Crossplane."
"However, one area of improvement is the learning curve, as Upbound Crossplane concepts such as providers, compositions, and claims can be difficult for beginners."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
50%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Healthcare Company
8%
Wholesaler/Distributor
3%
Construction Company
30%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudcraft?
My experience with Cloudcraft's pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is easy to use and easy to set up. It is straightforward.
What needs improvement with Cloudcraft?
I think Cloudcraft can be improved by possibly being a little less expensive.
What is your primary use case for Cloudcraft?
My main use case for Cloudcraft is drawing AWS diagrams and schemas. When I use Cloudcraft for AWS diagrams and schemas, for example, when the client asks for some architecture plan, I can make it ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Upbound Crossplane?
I find the pricing, setup cost, and licensing of Upbound Crossplane very suitable for research and development.
What needs improvement with Upbound Crossplane?
One area where Upbound Crossplane can be improved is with API rate limiting. For instance, if we frequently send some data to a specific API to poll the latest status of machines, it can result in ...
What is your primary use case for Upbound Crossplane?
Upbound Crossplane connects the cloud APIs on cloud providers like GCP, AWS, and Azure. We need to maintain the network resources and the VM containers, and the VM instance that Upbound Crossplane ...
 

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