Nojam and Spacelift
Spacelift is a hosted platform for infrastructure as code, with workers you can run yourself. Nojam is a self-hosted runner for teams whose Terraform changes HashiCorp Vault.
What Spacelift does better
- It is a mature hosted product with a SOC 2 Type II report.
- It covers more than Terraform and OpenTofu, and many providers the same way.
- Private worker pools let jobs run in your network while Spacelift runs the control plane.
- It issues short-lived cloud tokens to jobs through OIDC.
Where Nojam differs
- Spacelift prices by worker, from $399 a month for its Starter plan, so more parallel jobs cost more. Nojam scales by adding your own runner hosts.
- Its audit trail is in the Enterprise tier. Nojam’s audit log is hash-chained, signed and streamed to your own store.
- Approvals are Rego policies; whether the author may approve is up to the policy you write. In Nojam the author can never approve, production needs MFA, and the approver is checked again at apply.
- The control plane is Spacelift’s. Nojam’s control plane is a binary you run.
Which to choose
Choose Spacelift if
You want a hosted platform that covers several infrastructure tools, and you are happy for the control plane to sit outside your network.
Choose Nojam if
Vault is what you manage, and the whole path from pull request to Vault must stay in your own network.
Facts about Spacelift come from its own pages, read on 7 November 2026: Spacelift pricing, Spacelift documentation. If something here is out of date, write to us and we’ll correct it.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.