# Crossplane

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/crossplane
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/crossplane.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/crossplane/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://crossplane.io
- **Slug:** crossplane
- **Categories:** developer-tools, it-management-software

## Overview

- **Tagline:** It uses the Kubernetes control plane model to manage non-Kubernetes resources, allowing users to build their own custom cloud-like APIs rather than just scripts.
Source: Brand's website (https://crossplane.io) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Crossplane is an open-source, cloud-native framework designed for platform engineering that allows organizations to build custom control planes. Built on Kubernetes, it enables the management of any infrastructure or service through declarative APIs, effectively allowing companies to create their own internal cloud service providers.
Source: Brand's website (https://crossplane.io) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Crossplane Open Source Framework
  - Crossplane Providers
  - Compositions
Source: Brand's website (https://crossplane.io) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Free (Open Source)
Source: Brand's website (https://crossplane.io) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Platform Engineering teams, DevOps, Cloud Architects, Fortune 500 Enterprises
Source: Brand's website (https://crossplane.io) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - HashiCorp Terraform
  - Pulumi
  - Google Config Connector / AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
Source: Brand's website (https://crossplane.io) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.