What is Humanitec?
Humanitec builds a Platform Orchestrator for internal developer platforms: platform teams define resource and deployment rules once, and developers request environments through a workflow instead of writing Kubernetes manifests by hand. Humanitec also created and maintains Score, an open-source workload specification format used to describe an app's deployment needs independent of the underlying platform.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: official website, documentation, pricing.
Key capabilities
- Platform Orchestrator: The central engine that turns workload specs into running deployments.
- Score: An open-source, platform-agnostic workload specification maintained by Humanitec.
- Self-hosted runner: Available on higher/enterprise tiers for teams that must keep execution inside their own network.
Internal developer platform (IDP) orchestration and golden-path deployment workflows for Kubernetes-based organizations.
Shortlist Humanitec when a platform team wants to build a self-service internal developer platform without hand-rolling the orchestration layer, and is prepared to model golden paths and resource definitions up front. Paid plans are priced per seat/environment, with a self-hosted runner option on higher tiers.
An IDP tool only pays off once golden paths are actually defined and adopted by developers; a useful trial models one real service's resource dependencies and confirms a developer can self-serve an environment without platform-team intervention.
Technical details
- Access
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Other license
- Founded
- 2018
- Headquarters
- Berlin, Germany
- Pricing model
- Paid
- API
- Available
- Website
- humanitec.com ↗
Official resources
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- Confirm current features, licensing and support terms with the publisher.
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