Side by side

Nirmata Enterprise for Kyverno vs Tirith

Both stand on infrastructure policy as code tools. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Nirmata Enterprise for Kyverno

Paid LinuxSelf-hosted

Nirmata Enterprise for Kyverno adds lifecycle support, security fixes and enterprise assistance around a compatible Kyverno distribution. Its annual quoted cost and Kubernetes-version support policy are central considerations.

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Tirith

Free plan Linux

Tirith provides policy evaluation and pipeline gating for infrastructure documents, with local execution and multiple CI routes. Teams using GitLab must invoke the CLI directly, and organization mode has different data handling from local mode.

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The facts

	Nirmata Enterprise for Kyverno	Tirith
Free plan	No	Yes
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Linux, Self-hosted	Linux
Lowest paid plan	Nirmata Enterprise for Kyverno: $14,800 a year	Free or on request
Plans published	1	1
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	nirmata.com	github.com
On infrastructure policy as code tools	#21 of 25	#17 of 25

Nirmata Enterprise for Kyverno: what it does well

Existing Kyverno assets work unchanged
18 months of patch support
24/7 enterprise support with SLAs
CI scanning through nctl
Policy testing and admission control

What to know first

No free plan
$14,800 a year
Pricing requires a cluster-footprint quote
Older Kubernetes support can be dropped

Tirith: what it does well

Checks Terraform plans before infrastructure changes
Supports Kubernetes, Infracost, and JSON inputs
Runs locally without sending policies or documents
Integrates with several CI environments
Includes policy lint and format commands

What to know first

GitLab has no native action equivalent
Organization mode uploads a masked document
Interactive interface is optional beta

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