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Best Open Policy Agent Alternatives in 2026

Updated

20 apps from infrastructure policy as code tools ranked against Open Policy Agent on the same published basis.

  1. 1
    Terraform Free plan apiLinuxMacself-hostedWeb $0.10/mo6.7
    Open Policy Agent vs Terraform
  2. 2
    Conftest Free plan LinuxMacWin Free6.6
    Open Policy Agent vs Conftest
  3. 3
    Google Cloud Terraform Policy Validation Free plan LinuxMacWin Free6.6
    Open Policy Agent vs Google Cloud Terraform Policy Validation
  4. 5
    AWS CloudFormation Free plan apiLinuxMacWebWin Free6.5
    Open Policy Agent vs AWS CloudFormation
  5. 6
    cfn-lint Free plan LinuxMacself-hostedWin Free6.5
    Open Policy Agent vs cfn-lint
  6. 7
    Cloud Custodian Free plan LinuxMacself-hostedWin Free6.5
    Open Policy Agent vs Cloud Custodian
  7. 8
    KICS Free plan LinuxMacself-hostedWin Free6.5
    Open Policy Agent vs KICS
  8. 9
    Kyverno Free plan apiLinuxMacself-hostedWin Free6.5
    Open Policy Agent vs Kyverno
  9. 10
    Checkov Free plan LinuxMac Free6.4
    Open Policy Agent vs Checkov
  10. 11
    Google Cloud Organization Policy Free plan apiWeb Free6.4
    Open Policy Agent vs Google Cloud Organization Policy
  11. 12
    Google Config Sync Free plan apiself-hostedWeb Free6.4
    Open Policy Agent vs Google Config Sync
  12. 13
    KubeLinter Free plan LinuxMacself-hosted Free6.4
    Open Policy Agent vs KubeLinter
  13. 14
    terraform-compliance Free plan Linuxself-hosted Free6.4
    Open Policy Agent vs terraform-compliance
  14. 15
    Chef Infra Free trial apiLinuxMacself-hostedWin $4.92/mo5.6
    Open Policy Agent vs Chef Infra
  15. 16
    HashiCorp Nomad apiLinuxMacself-hostedWeb 5.6
    Open Policy Agent vs HashiCorp Nomad
  16. 17
    Kubewarden LinuxMacself-hostedWin 5.6
    Open Policy Agent vs Kubewarden
  17. 18
    Fairwinds Polaris LinuxMacWin 5.3
    Open Policy Agent vs Fairwinds Polaris
  18. 19
    Tirith Free plan Linux Free5.2
    Open Policy Agent vs Tirith
  19. 20
    PolicyForge Web 5.1
    Open Policy Agent vs PolicyForge
  20. 21
    Terraform Test Framework 5.1
    Open Policy Agent vs Terraform Test Framework

Open Policy Agent alternatives compared

#AppScoreFree planFromRuns on
1Terraform6.7Free plan$0.10/moAPI, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web, Windows
2Conftest6.6Free planFreeLinux, Mac, Windows
3Google Cloud Terraform Policy Validation6.6Free planFreeLinux, Mac, Windows
5AWS CloudFormation6.5Free planFreeAPI, Linux, Mac, Web, Windows
6cfn-lint6.5Free planFreeLinux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows
7Cloud Custodian6.5Free planFreeLinux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows
8KICS6.5Free planFreeLinux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows
9Kyverno6.5Free planFreeAPI, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows
10Checkov6.4Free planFreeLinux, Mac
11Google Cloud Organization Policy6.4Free planFreeAPI, Web
12Google Config Sync6.4Free planFreeAPI, self-hosted, Web
13KubeLinter6.4Free planFreeLinux, Mac, self-hosted
14terraform-compliance6.4Free planFreeLinux, self-hosted
15Chef Infra5.6No$4.92/moAPI, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows
16HashiCorp Nomad5.6No—API, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web, Windows
17Kubewarden5.6No—Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows
18Fairwinds Polaris5.3No—Linux, Mac, Windows
19Tirith5.2Free planFreeLinux
20PolicyForge5.1No—Web
21Terraform Test Framework5.1No——
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Questions about Open Policy Agent alternatives

What is the best alternative to Open Policy Agent?

Terraform, number 1 in infrastructure policy as code tools with a score of 6.7 out of 10. The others here: Conftest, Google Cloud Terraform Policy Validation, AWS CloudFormation and 16 more.

What is the best free alternative to Open Policy Agent?

Terraform is the best-ranked alternative with a free plan. 14 of the 20 alternatives here publish a free plan on their own pricing pages.

How are these alternatives ranked?

Ranked free-and-open first: a usable free tier and open-source code, then the platforms it runs on and its documentation.