OpenTofu Runs are Free in Scalr

Editor's note (2026): The free-OpenTofu-runs promotion described below ended on January 15, 2024. OpenTofu runs are now billed the same as any other run under Scalr's run-based pricing, free up to 50 runs a month. The rest of this post is kept for historical context.

When OpenTofu launched in late 2023, Scalr made every run executed with OpenTofu free until January 15, 2024, so teams could try the fork before its first stable release without paying for the runs. The promotion has ended, but the way you switch a workspace hasn't changed.

How do you switch a Scalr workspace to OpenTofu?

Sign in to Scalr (or create a free account) and open the workspace's pipeline settings. The IaC version dropdown lists OpenTofu releases alongside Terraform ones; pick the OpenTofu version you want, save, and run. Nothing else changes: same VCS connection, same variables, same state. The first tofu apply rewrites the terraform_version marker in state and leaves the resource entries alone.

If you're coming from Terraform Cloud rather than from a Terraform workspace already in Scalr, the TFC migration module moves the workspaces first and you flip the engine afterward.

For what OpenTofu is and how it differs from Terraform today, start with what is OpenTofu? and OpenTofu vs Terraform.