--- title: "Ansible Automation Platform Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra" description: "With the help of Capterra, learn about Ansible Automation Platform Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Configuration Management Tools products and more." source_url: "https://www.capterra.com/p/206320/Ansible-Automation-Platform/" page_type: "product" language: "en" publication_date: "2026-11-03" --- # Ansible Automation Platform Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on November 3, 2026 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[FAQs](#faqs)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Integrations](#integrations)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Ansible Automation Platform ## What is Ansible Automation Platform? Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes all the tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation. ## What is Ansible Automation Platform used for? [Configuration Management Tools](https://www.capterra.com/configuration-tools-software/)[DevOps](https://www.capterra.com/devops-software/)[Continuous Integration](https://www.capterra.com/continuous-integration-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 9 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- ### Starting price Free trial not available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for Ansible Automation Platform?[Manage this product listing](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/claim_requests/new?auto=true) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### Ansible Automation Platform 4.6 (9) VS. [4.7 (399)](https://www.capterra.com/p/168192/Site24x7/reviews/) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price $10 Flat Rate, Per Month Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.1 (9) Ease Of Use 4.6 (6,197) Value For Money 4.3 (7) Value For Money 4.5 (4,426) Customer Service 3.7 (6) Customer Service 4.5 (4,084) ## Ansible Automation Platform alternatives [4.7 (32)](https://www.capterra.com/p/10016401/groundcover/reviews/) Starting price $30.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 94% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.5 (203)](https://www.capterra.com/p/118128/New-Relic/reviews/) Starting price $10.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 93% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars Highest Rated [5.0 (8)](https://www.capterra.com/p/184757/BusinessLOG/#reviews) Starting price $2.70 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.5 (104)](https://www.capterra.com/p/210774/ADAudit-Plus/reviews/) Starting price $595.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 97% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/206320/Ansible-Automation-Platform/alternatives/) ## FAQs about Ansible Automation Platform Features and Usability ### What are the key features of Ansible Automation Platform? Ansible Automation Platform offers configuration management, lifecycle management, and pipeline management for automating infrastructure and application workflows. It also includes access controls/permissions, user management, and approval process control, plus monitoring, reporting/analytics, compliance management, automated testing, and third-party integrations for managing and tracking automation activity. Integrations ### Which third-party tools and platforms does Ansible Automation Platform integrate with? Ansible Automation Platform integrates with Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Jenkins, Travis CI, Splunk Enterprise, Workspace ONE, and Idira Privileged Access Management. These integrations cover cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, security, and endpoint management platforms, giving the product breadth across common enterprise automation environments. Getting Started and Support ### What training and onboarding options does Ansible Automation Platform offer? Ansible Automation Platform provides videos as a training option for teams getting started. Videos can support self-paced learning and offer visual guidance for setup, feature review, and common workflows. No other training formats are listed in the catalog data. Getting Started and Support ### What customer support options does Ansible Automation Platform offer? Ansible Automation Platform provides Email/Help Desk, FAQ/Forum, Knowledge Base, and Phone Support. These channels give users multiple ways to look up answers or contact support directly, but no reviewer feedback is available here to describe response times, helpfulness, or common support frustrations. ## Features AI summary Based on 253 Configuration Management Tools reviews Capterra reviewers highlight these as the features buyers care about most when comparing Configuration Management Tools: - **Real-Time Monitoring** (**73%** of reviewers rated this feature as critical) - **Data Visualization** (**53%**) - **Configuration Management** (**86%**) Ansible Automation Platform supports **Configuration Management**, which is one of the top capabilities buyers look for in this category. However, it does not include **Real-Time Monitoring** or **Data Visualization**. Instead, it offers **Compliance Management** (**48%**), another feature reviewers identify as important. This can help businesses maintain policy alignment, reduce manual oversight, and giving teams a more consistent way to manage infrastructure changes at scale. Configuration Management 4.5 (8) 62.50% of 8 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Identify component attributes like servers, hardware, software, and manage relationships across all services Compliance Management 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier Third-Party Integrations 4.5 (6) 66.67% of 6 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes API 4.6 (5) 60.00% of 5 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Status Tracking 3.8 (4) 75.00% of 4 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Track the status over time for a request, process, asset, or transaction User Management 4.5 (4) 75.00% of 4 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Manage user accounts, profiles, roles, permissions, and other details across applications, devices or networks Ansible Automation Platform 27 features ### All Features - Access Controls/Permissions: Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems - Activity Dashboard: Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities - Alerts/Escalation: System alerts about the need to escalate an issue or request - Alerts/Notifications: Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges - API: Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases - Approval Process Control: Manage the process of evaluating documents or requests submitted for approval - Automated Testing: Execution of software tests by leveraging automation tools - Compliance Management: Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier - Configuration Management: Identify component attributes like servers, hardware, software, and manage relationships across all services - Dashboard: Assembly of graphs and charts for visualizing and tracking statistics/metrics - For Developers: For the intention to be used by developers - Lifecycle Management: Manage the end-to-end lifecycle, from initial setup/development to deployment and maintenance - Monitoring: Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user - Multi-User Collaboration: Two-way actions and communication between multiple users in real time - Performance Metrics: A set of indicators that tracks the performance of networks, applications, systems, teams, etc. - Pipeline Management: Track the progress of long term goals, campaigns, and opportunities, for sales, projects, business ventures etc. - Policy Management: Create, manage, and track policies and procedures within an organization - Reporting & Statistics: Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns - Reporting/Analytics: View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data - Repository Management: Review, track, and manage various types of local and remote repositories - Search/Filter: Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria - Source-Code Scanning: Scan the initial code written for application development - Status Tracking: Track the status over time for a request, process, asset, or transaction - Task Progress Tracking: Track the status and progress of tasks - Template Management: Create, save, and re-purpose templates for emails, forms, etc. - Third-Party Integrations: Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes - User Management: Manage user accounts, profiles, roles, permissions, and other details across applications, devices or networks --- Get Advice We can help you find the software with the features you need. Features 4.9 (9) 4.9 Based on 9 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.3 (7) ### Starting price Free trial not available Value for money 4.3 (7) 4.3 Based on 7 reviews ## Integrations [ Google Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/)[ Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/)[ Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/)[ Splunk Enterprise](https://www.capterra.com/p/94317/Splunk/)[ Travis CI](https://www.capterra.com/p/179183/Travis-CI/)[ Idira Identity Security Platform](https://www.capterra.com/p/119742/Privileged-Account-Security-Solution/) Connect with a Capterra advisor for a free 15-minute consultation Get a personalized software list aligned to your business needs with guidance from our expert advisors. Our team has helped 1 million+ businesses like yours find options that fit their needs. ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 3.7 (6) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 3.7 (6) 3.7 Based on 6 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.6 Based on 9 reviews Filter by rating Counts reflect reviews available in this feed. 5(5) 4(4) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Recent reviews first, then most helpful Moises F. DevOps Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "One of the best tools to transition I.T. Teams to DevOps" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 May 6, 2022 Ansible by itself can be challenging for Microsoft shops used to GUIs but the Automation Platform resolves this. I have worked with clients and reduced processes from days to minutes which can be done with scripting but the best part about Ansible Automation Platform is that you can hand off the automated workflow to the I.T. team with full understanding on how to run and monitor the playbooks. Pros \- The GUI in this product makes it very simple for I.T. teams looking to adopt DevOps since it reduces the learning curve on learning ansible from the shell. Specially Microsoft shops that are used to GUIs. - One of my favorite features is that ansible is agentless unlike other tools like Chef or SCCM and the reason for this is that Ansible pushes config and doesn't need to rely on the client having the agent installed, checking back for new configs (like GPOs) or having to update the agent. - The platform allows for governance of the collections to use and comes with RHEL certified collections installed for third party integrations so you know you are using vetted modules. - I like to see the report on the most used modules so I know and can compare with the team's tickets and workload so you can also go in the galaxy and see if there are other complementing or better collections. - Role based access and wizard like playbooks helps to add even non-admins and less experienced users since they can only get access to specific playbooks that simply ask questions and the platform passes the answers to the playbooks. - The API makes it easy to integrate with other products like ServiceNow or Azure DevOps by passing values and triggering each other. - The VSCode extension is great to write playbooks with hints and auto corrections Cons The support for Windows has improved over the years and I have been able to even transition clients to use Ansible for most of their windows tasks but for Microsoft shops is harder to adapt. Maybe more webinars and comparisons on how Ansible complements Powershell DSC or is a better platform than SCCM or other config managers. ST Senior Technical Engineer/Senior Infrastructure Engineer Senior Technical Engineer/Senior Infrastructure Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Easy to use configuration management and automation solution for complete administrative scope" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 2.0 2.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 October 18, 2022 It's easy to use and comprehend on the code/configuration development side, interfaces well with SCMs and with specific infrastructure tools/solutions. Idempotency oriented approach allows describing expected status that the tool then attempts be set/reached. Pros Easy to use, yaml expected status oriented coding approach, using basic SSH and similar underlying communication protocols/tools, basically requires only python on targets, highly expandable through plugins and community collections. Cons Requires heavy python installation on each target (which can also introduce vulnerabilities), expects passwordless connection be possible between server or control node and targets, for more administrative tasks systems/targets need to be setup with correct permissions a priori. QA Quality Assurance Engineer Quality Assurance Engineer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "The best configuration management tool" 4.0 August 16, 2022 It's a great software with so many features like roles, vault, playbook, inventory etc. So a person need to utilise all the tools to use ansible to the fullest. Pros Ansible is excellent in automating the host machines where my applications have been installed. I can add or negate any prerequisites to all the host machines. Hence it reduces our repetitive work. Cons It's great but dynamic inventory needs more time to be spent or else we cannot understand it. TC Tecnical Coordinator Tecnical Coordinator Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Creation of rk8s cluster with longhorn on vCloud platform" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 December 19, 2024 We use Ansible for the delivery of clusters rk8s with longhorn on vCloud platform whith the use of yaml files. at first we take many time to create the script and conf files, about 20 days with no code experience, but when all file was ready we create all the kubernetes enviroment on 2 hours. very good thing. Pros Great range of plugin for all cases on IT tasks, more easy than other automation tools when you master it Cons need a mid/base experience of coding or read many pages of documentations for make a functional automation task SE System Engineer System Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "A Must Have Tool for Every Sysadmin and Developers" 5.0 May 24, 2023 Pros Ansible is a handy configuration management tool for IT professionals. It's a very flexible software to configure your environment with a single command. It's very easy to get hands on, and if you're not familiar with the playbooks, there're thousands of templates available to use. Ansible Galaxy is such a platform to offer various templates that were created by community members, so anyone can grab and go.Ansible is also an open source software, so everyone can play with it for free. For enterprise users, they can upgrade it to Ansible Tower to enable more cool functions. Cons It's recommended to work with Git (code controlling). However, it's not integrated with Ansible.You can only run one job at a time.Need some efforts on studying jinja language if you want to master Ansible. Mike .. Mission Critical Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "A powerful agentless configuration management tool" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 December 13, 2022 Pros The ease of use and the fact that we do not need to add yet another agent or client to systems Cons Does have a slight learning curve but is very well documented and has a responsive community DE DevOps DevOps Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Great option that you should really consider" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 September 6, 2022 I liked ansible a lot, I can easily deploy and manage a bunch of vms/containers Pros Easy of use and adaptability, it does have a learning curve but if you have used other yml/yaml related tools it should be pretty straightforward Cons It might be confusing when first using the tool NA Netbackup administrator Netbackup administrator Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Ansible Automation platform" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 January 4, 2023 Overall experience has been good and looking forward to use it more... Pros Ansible Automation platform is very easy and comprehensive to use..Automation becomes very easy and it helps in the collaboration with different other tools.Reduce in time of completion. Cons Mainly disadvantage is the debugging and performance issue,It works too slow and tgys m network hindrance is there DE Developer Developer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Automation and configuration management made simple" 5.0 November 28, 2023 Ansible is great because even complex tasks are made kinda easy, only thing that takes a while to get used to is the async stuff. Pros Very flexible, there's a task for everything imaginable Cons Sometimes yaml files can get messy, but the tooling helps a lot. [View all Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/206320/Ansible-Automation-Platform/reviews/) ## Top-rated software of 2026 ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.