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Garden vs werf: catalog facts
Garden	werf
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	One tool for building, testing and deploying Reproducible builds with content-based tagging
Configuration model takes time to learn Some features, such as team caching, rely on Garden Cloud	Assumes Kubernetes and Helm Git-centric model takes some adjustment
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
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 October 1, 2026

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