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emma Governance vs Turbot Guardrails

Both stand on cloud governance software. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

emma Governance

Free trial APIWeb

emma Governance brings policy checks, access controls, residency rules, and audit records into deployment workflows across multiple environments. Prospective buyers will need to request pricing, and the listed trial has no stated duration.

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Turbot Guardrails

Free trial APISelf-hostedWeb

Guardrails offers automated remediation and policy governance with both hosted and self-hosted options. The per-control charges and control-pack starting prices are important to assess, and the trial is limited to Cloud SaaS.

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The facts

	emma Governance	Turbot Guardrails
Free plan	Not published	A free trial
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	API, Web	API, Self-hosted, Web
Lowest paid plan	Free or on request	Cloud: $0.05 a month
Plans published	1	2
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	emma.ms	turbot.com
On cloud governance software	#14 of 26	#18 of 26

emma Governance: what it does well

Checks can block non-compliant deployments
Supports residency rules across selected locations
Logs deployment and change details for audit evidence
Integrates with Terraform, Backstage, Jenkins, and GitLab
Trial account with ready-to-use workflows

What to know first

Pricing is on request

Turbot Guardrails: what it does well

Automates remediation of detected misconfigurations.
Cloud policy engine includes more than 14,000 policies.
Coverage lists AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub, and Kubernetes.
Enterprise runs inside the customer's AWS environment.

What to know first

No free plan is listed.
The 14-day trial applies to Cloud SaaS, not Enterprise.
Cloud control packs start at $25,000.
Enterprise control packs start at $50,000.

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