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Freshservice vs Spacelift comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.3
Freshservice boosts efficiency with automation, cut hiring needs, improves SLA, but ROI quantification and user management vary by region.
Sentiment score
5.6
Spacelift drastically cuts costs and boosts efficiency in infrastructure deployment, offering significant value, particularly for larger organizations.
Faster resolution means the average ticket resolution time decreased by roughly twenty-five to thirty percent since alerts are automatically converted into tickets and routed to the right team.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Automation has contributed significantly, resulting in reduced resource counts, which equates to savings in money and time.
Technical support manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
With using Freshservice, only two technicians are needed per one shift, but without Freshservice, for the same company size, we need about four technicians per shift, so it saved money and time.
Systems Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
We are just pushing code from Git to GitHub, which then sends it to Spacelift, checking for drifts and starting continuous deployment.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The metrics show that fewer employees are needed, money is saved based on past experiences with different cloud management or Infrastructure as Code management tools, and efficiency has improved significantly in terms of Infrastructure as Code deployment.
cloud engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Anything that reduces the amount of work needed to do repetitive tasks is a bonus.
Senior Devops Engineer at SAM Seamless
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Freshservice support is responsive and helpful but requires better communication and understanding of user needs for technical issues.
Sentiment score
5.1
Spacelift's customer service receives mixed feedback, praised for responsiveness but compared unfavorably to major services like AWS.
Ultimately, we saw a 77% reduction in average resolution times with a return on investment realized within 6 months.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
However, they have improved over the period of two years.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Their documentation is also good, making setup easy without needing frequent support requests.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I have asked them various queries, and they provided perfect solutions along with good detailed documentation.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The customer support is fantastic as they reply over Slack immediately and get to work on a solution whenever I need them.
Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The SLO and SLA being really fast to answer.
Dev Ops Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Freshservice efficiently scales with user growth and ticket volume, supporting departments despite potential customization and enterprise-level limitations.
Sentiment score
5.5
Spacelift efficiently scales to manage large workloads and multiple Terraform projects, ensuring stability and functionality across deployments.
As our organization has grown and ticket volume related to AWS resources increased, Freshservice handled the extra load without any performance issues.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It offers global performance with multi-region data centers to ensure faster responses while adhering to strong security and compliance standards such as GDPR and SOC 2.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Freshservice can handle growth in users or tickets easily.
Cloud Operations Engineer at PowerSchool India Pvt.Ltd
Spacelift's scalability is very good as it scales very well with the environment because I can add agents to it with more workload, so it's quite excellent.
Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Spacelift can handle increased workloads well, managing more servers as our organization grows, and it is indeed scalable.
Lead Devops Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Based on the requests and the Linux Docker machines I provision, it becomes more stable, and the runs happen very quickly.
cloud engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Freshservice offers stable performance with minor data import and integration challenges, excelling in daily operations and seamless updates.
Sentiment score
8.5
Spacelift is highly stable and reliable, with a 99% success rate and no significant stability issues reported by users.
The service runs smoothly most of the time, and performance has been consistent even when ticket volumes and AWS alerts are high.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Freshservice is quite stable as they host it on AWS.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Freshservice provides a stable environment for our needs.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Freshservice needs improved customization, integration, asset management accuracy, reporting, support, AI features, and performance for larger networks.
Spacelift needs to enhance user onboarding, error clarity, pricing transparency, UI design, integrations, and documentation for improved user experience.
There's limited experience with the CMDB or asset management features.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Asset management can definitely be improved because it doesn't pick up every single device on the network or every single piece of information.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Reporting is useful, but the customization is still restricted, and it would be great to build more detailed reports that combine multiple data sources, especially for cloud-related operations.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It can improve areas in scalability and integrate some open-source tools.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The engineering team behind Spacelift is very responsive whenever I submit a feature request, and there's a very good chance I would see it within the next year.
Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The OPA policy writing is not very beginner-friendly either, and the error messages when a policy fails are not always clear.
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Freshservice offers competitive pricing with flexible plans, emphasizing cost-effectiveness and lower total ownership costs for enterprises.
Spacelift offers competitive pricing, with substantial savings over alternatives, despite occasional clarity issues in licensing and perceived costs.
Switching from previous ITSM tools has led to a 50% reduction in licensing costs.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
The solution offers flat licensing and appears to be cost-effective.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The price was very comfortable for our organization to proceed with the migration from Freshdesk to Freshservice.
Technical support manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
The next standard plan costs three hundred ninety-nine dollars per month for ten concurrent users.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The spaces have been a major aspect of managing things, and the contacts for the resources I provide internally in Spacelift are quite affordable, effective, and useful.
cloud engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
My experience with pricing shows that the setup cost is reasonable, and the licensing also seems reasonable.
Lead Devops Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
 

Valuable Features

Freshservice is valued for its user-friendly interface, automation, integration capabilities, and features enhancing IT team efficiency.
Spacelift enhances team efficiency, collaboration, and infrastructure management with automation, integrations, and Terraform support for improved deployment speed.
The most valuable features include ticket routing, automation in triage, data control, and flat licensing.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Incident management is very helpful, and the system is straightforward, making it easy to use for our enterprise-level company.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Overall, Freshservice provides cutting-edge AI automation for agents and end-users, effortless no-code workflows and ITIL-aligned operations, robust asset, incident, change, problem, and major incident management backed by the live CMDB, unified service desk with self-service and multi-channel support, and strong analytics reporting features, making it a powerful tool for any IT function.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
We can apply those policies in Spacelift, and the RBAC and access policies features are really excellent in Spacelift, which we do not find in any of the other competitor tools.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Spacelift has positively impacted my organization by reducing manpower, as it reduced the efforts of resources in the team, where previously a job done by two or three engineers can now be easily managed by one engineer using Spacelift.
Technical Lead at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
You create so many different modules and so many different versions. Having a very easy way to navigate and search through them all, and the fact that you can actually see the commit ID and description really helps in discovering what was actually in that version of the module.
Senior Devops Engineer at SAM Seamless
 

Categories and Ranking

Freshservice
Ranking in Cloud Management
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (6th), Project Management Software (9th), IT Asset Management (4th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (4th), Configuration Management Databases (5th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (8th), AI IT Support (4th)
Spacelift
Ranking in Cloud Management
9th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
AI Software Development (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Freshservice is 1.2%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spacelift is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Spacelift1.2%
Freshservice1.2%
Other97.6%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

Raja Farrar - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Automation and AI have transformed our service delivery and have made IT support faster and more efficient
I always keep up with Freshservice's roadmaps and new features. Freshservice has been very good at listening to feedback and adding those feature requests into their next iterations. I wish they would offer more granular data export options for utilizing in Power BI, along with predictive analytics for capacity planning and SLA breaches to enable more proactive support management and reduce firefighting. While the dashboards are effective, some users find custom reporting limited compared to ServiceNow or Jira. I would also appreciate deeper integrations, especially for niche apps requiring development coding work to enable advanced orchestration. Native integrations for DevOps pipelines such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins, along with stronger API flexibility for complex workflows, would enhance functionality. Although the CMDB and asset management are solid, they do lack advanced dependency mapping compared to other enterprise tools. My wishlist includes automated impact analysis for changes and improved visualization of asset relationships, enabling quicker resolutions from an agent's perspective when alerts come in. I acknowledge that Device42 may enhance this, but it is an extra cost beyond what we already pay. While Freddy AI is excellent for triage and suggestions, some users desire more proactive automation, such as predictive ticket routing based on historical patterns and AI-driven capacity forecasting. Lastly, the pricing tiers might seem rigid for mid-sized teams, so a more granular add-on option for features such as Device42 or pay-per-use for orchestration workflows could be beneficial.
G Srivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Automation of cloud infrastructure has transformed how our team manages Terraform workflows
Spacelift has other features beyond Terraform, including Ansible, Pulumi, Terragrunt, and it also helps with Kubernetes, although we haven't used it for the other tools. We have only used it for Terraform Infrastructure as Code, and it has helped us significantly. One standout feature compared to Terraform Cloud is the ability to apply policies. For example, we want to restrict engineers in our team from building servers with a particular SKU, such as in Azure, where we do not want to run servers with a SKU higher than the standard D4sv5. We can apply those policies in Spacelift, and the RBAC and access policies features are really excellent in Spacelift, which we do not find in any of the other competitor tools. The pricing is also competitive compared to Terraform Cloud. The access policy features allow us to assign specific policies since we have three environments in our company: Dev, QA, and Prod. We assign policies so that anyone can run code from Dev and QA servers, but we assign a policy for specific people, such as managers, to run code in Prod. This is a very good feature from Spacelift that we have implemented for the access policy. Spacelift has positively impacted our organization as a CI/CD tool for application deployment and development. Although we use other CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, there wasn't a specific tool for Terraform Infrastructure as Code until Spacelift came along. It allows us to easily configure our servers and build a number of them on our cloud. While other CI/CD tools have started to include configuration features, Spacelift offers many other benefits that make it an excellent tool to use.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
University
9%
Educational Organization
6%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Educational Organization
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Freshservice?
I do not have any experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing, as it was assigned to the infrastructure team.
What needs improvement with Freshservice?
Freshservice has an AI agent that needs improvement for finding knowledge base articles. When issues or incidents are received in Freshservice, new users should be able to receive direct help from ...
What is your primary use case for Freshservice?
Freshservice is used to redirect ticket handling and acknowledge tickets and incidents received. Tickets are redirected with their short description and subject line in Freshservice, which allows f...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Spacelift?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that licensing was somewhat unclear when HashiCorp changed their own licensing.
What needs improvement with Spacelift?
It would be nice to have out-of-the-box A/B testing with Spacelift because we still use some custom features for that. Out-of-the-box A/B testing is the main thing I would like to add about the nee...
What is your primary use case for Spacelift?
We manage a lot of AWS deployments with Spacelift configs, so we have a main use case for it. We also use it for versioning and spinning up new environments. Recently we used Spacelift for deployin...
 

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Sample Customers

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Western Carriers, Judson University, Golf Canada, Travix, Proxama, Paymentez, Ready Auto Transport
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