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Garden vs Tilt: catalog facts
Garden	Tilt
Freemium The CLI is open source; Garden Cloud is a separate hosted service with additional…	Free Free and open source.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Command line
One configuration for development, testing and CI environments Works with Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi and local scripts	Automatic rebuilds as you edit code live_update syncs code into running containers
Configuration model takes time to learn Some features, such as team caching, rely on Garden Cloud	Requires writing and maintaining a Tiltfile Most useful for multi-service projects, less so for a single app
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is 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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