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 (the first 50 runs each month are free). The rest of this post is kept for historical context.

Get a head start on your migration from Terraform to OpenTofu now with Scalr. During the OpenTofu launch, all runs executed with OpenTofu were free until January 15th, 2024. The stable release of OpenTofu is currently scheduled for mid December to mid January, but we wanted to give you the opportunity to start early without incurring any cost. That means you can use all of Scalr's core features for free, because the only thing Scalr charges for is a run (a few enterprise add-ons sit on the Enterprise plan: audit log export, SCIM, and bring-your-own state storage). Some alternatives use concurrency-based pricing, where you pay for parallel run slots whether or not you use them. Scalr's pricing is usage-based, so a free run is genuinely free.

What is OpenTofu?

OpenTofu is a fork of Terraform that is completely open source and the alternative to Terraform. It recently joined the Linux Foundation to ensure there is a free and viable infrastructure as code tool for the open source community. You can follow the project on Github here.

How To Get Started?

If you don't have a Scalr account, sign up for free here. Once in Scalr, you'll see a version for opentofu-1.6.0-alpha in the workspace pipeline settings.

If you are migrating a workspace off of Terraform, all you have to do is update the version in the workspace and execute a run, nothing else is needed. If you are migrating off of Terraform Cloud, this module can be used to help automate the process.

Sign up and get started today.