# Nojam and HCP Terraform

HCP Terraform is HashiCorp’s own hosted platform for Terraform, sold by IBM since 2025, with Terraform Enterprise as its self-hosted edition. Nojam is a self-hosted runner for teams whose Terraform changes HashiCorp Vault.

## What HCP Terraform does better

- It comes from the makers of Terraform and covers every provider the same way, with a private registry and a large ecosystem around it.
- It is hosted: there is nothing to install or patch.
- It offers workload identity to AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Vault and Kubernetes, so jobs can avoid static cloud keys.
- It has a free tier of 500 managed resources.

## Where Nojam differs

- HCP Terraform is priced per managed resource per hour, from $0.10 to $0.99 per resource a month. Nojam doesn’t charge by resource, so putting more of Vault under management costs nothing extra.
- Its audit logging is in the Premium tier. Nojam’s tamper-evident audit log is part of the product.
- HashiCorp’s security model states that "the plan permission is equivalent to the write permission". In Nojam a plan gets a read-only Vault role, and production targets can require an approver before pull request code plans at all.
- Plans and applies run on HashiCorp’s machines unless you run their agents or Terraform Enterprise. Nojam runs entirely inside your network.

## Which to choose

### Choose HCP Terraform if

You want a hosted platform from the makers of Terraform for many providers, and per-resource pricing suits your estate.

### Choose Nojam if

Vault is the centre of your Terraform, the code and credentials must stay inside your network, and audit evidence is a requirement.

Facts about HCP Terraform come from its own pages, read on 7 November 2026: [HashiCorp pricing](https://www.hashicorp.com/en/pricing), [HCP Terraform security model](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cloud-docs/architectural-details/security-model). If something here is out of date, write to us and we’ll correct it.

## Compare them on your own Vault

A pilot runs next to your current pipeline in shadow mode, so you can compare the two on real changes.

[Request a pilot](https://nojam.io/pilot.md) [Join early access](https://nojam.io/early-access.md)

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