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Garden vs Skaffold: catalog facts
Garden	Skaffold
Freemium The CLI is open source; Garden Cloud is a separate hosted service with additional…	Free Free open-source project from Google.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Command line
One configuration for development, testing and CI environments Works with Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi and local scripts	Client-side only, nothing installed in the cluster Automates build, push and deploy on code changes
Configuration model takes time to learn Some features, such as team caching, rely on Garden Cloud	Configured through YAML that takes time to learn Only useful for projects deploying to Kubernetes
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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