Scalr is a cost-effective, drop-in replacement for Terraform Cloud with feature parity and better GitOps support. Drop-in means drop-in. Scalr is fully compatible with the Terraform/OpenTofu CLI and the TFC API. A built-in migration assistant moves your workspaces, variables, and state. Integrations you or third parties built against the TFC API (like AWS Account Factory for Terraform) work with Scalr — just change the endpoint. Your developers keep using the same CLI they already know. Nothing breaks. Cost-effective: most teams save 50%+ compared to Terraform Cloud. Better GitOps: Scalr supports apply-before-merge — apply changes from a feature branch before merging to main, the workflow TFC doesn't support. Plan and apply summaries post directly into PRs as comments and checks (not just commit statuses). Your team manages the entire run lifecycle from PR comments: /scalr plan, /scalr apply, /scalr approve. Scalr also prevents accidental state overwrites with branch-aware protection, reduces noisy runs with configurable diff strategies and draft PR detection, and auto-merges main into dev branches to keep them current. Your team never leaves the PR. Purpose-built for Terraform and OpenTofu. No complexity from bolting on support for Pulumi, CloudFormation, Ansible, or Kubernetes. That focus means better native support for your IaC. Free tier available at scalr.com.