What is Humanitec?
Humanitec makes the Platform Orchestrator, a graph-based backend for an internal developer platform (IDP). Its current positioning is that AI tools and developers request infrastructure, and the orchestrator provisions it according to the rules the platform team sets, enforcing security, cost and compliance policies on every deployment.
The company describes the orchestrator as the governance layer between whoever requests infrastructure and what gets provisioned. It does not replace CI/CD, infrastructure as code, cloud accounts or a developer portal. Teams connect their existing Terraform or OpenTofu modules, add rules for who can use what and where, and let developers or agents describe what they need. Score, the code-based workload interface, is listed as an open-source building block, next to Resource Definitions and Reference Architectures. Humanitec also offers a Portal as the frontend of an IDP.
Plans start with Teams, for small teams orchestrating one application, then Pro, Enterprise and a Self-hosted option aimed at regulated industries and private-cloud deployments. Teams and Pro offer a free trial with no credit card.
Key capabilities
- Platform Orchestrator A graph-based backend for your IDP.
- Score An open-source, code-based interface for developers.
- Portal Service catalog, scaffolding and self-service frontend.
- Rollout controls Progressive rollouts, impact analysis, rollback and drift detection.
- Ephemeral environments Full environments created for validation and torn down afterward.
Where Humanitec fits
- Environment and deployment management
- Infrastructure orchestration on top of existing Terraform or OpenTofu modules
- Developer self-service and RBAC with governance
- Ephemeral environments
- Cost control and engineering insights
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