Compare Cycloid vs. LocalOps

Cycloid is the leading unified Internal Developer Portal and Platform, built with a GitOps first approach. With our Portal and Platform, you don’t need to start from scratch to get a fully customized solution. We optimize the developer experience and operational efficiency by accelerating the delivery of a developer portal and platform, alleviating the cognitive load on IT teams and advocating for FinOps & Green IT practices. Platform teams design, build and run the platform, enabling end-users to visualize, deploy, manage projects, and interact with cutting-edge DevOps and Cloud automation regardless of skill level, while keeping best practices in place. It can be consumed through the console, in CLI or in API, and is available as SaaS or self-hosted. We are the editor of OSS projects TerraCognita: reverse Terraform; InfraMap: infra diagram; and Terracost: cost estimation. We work with global organizations, US and European public institutions and 6 of the top 10 SI service providers.

LocalOps provides a contemporary cloud-agnostic internal developer platform designed for streamlined engineering teams utilizing AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, particularly those who lack DevOps expertise or are hindered by slow release cycles due to DevOps constraints. Teams can achieve a developer experience similar to Vercel, Fly, or Heroku directly within their own cloud infrastructure. By linking their AWS, GCP, or Azure accounts along with their GitHub repositories, teams can launch services in less than 30 minutes without the need to manually configure AWS resources, create Dockerfiles, set up CI/CD pipelines, or write Terraform scripts. They gain self-service access to AWS, enabling automatic deployments through Git push, and can monitor logs and metrics from the outset with a pre-configured open-source monitoring setup that includes Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki. Additionally, they can scale resources infinitely on their own cloud account at a significantly reduced cost, and any available cloud credits can be utilized to cover the expenses of cloud resources. Ultimately, teams can efficiently deploy, monitor, automate, and scale their applications seamlessly in their personal cloud environments.