Kratix
An open-source toolkit that lets a platform team build a self-service capability once — say, "spin up a database" — and hand it out to developers, automation scripts, and now AI agents through a consistent API, CLI, or portal.
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Description
Platform teams end up building the same kind of thing over and over: a way for developers to request infrastructure (a database, an environment, a queue) without filing a ticket. Kratix is an open-source framework for building exactly that, once, in a reusable way — instead of every team hand-rolling its own internal developer portal glue code.
Under the hood, Kratix defines "Promises" — packaged capabilities that a platform team authors and developers consume via API, CLI, a portal, or now MCP (Model Context Protocol), which lets AI agents request infrastructure the same way a human developer would. The core is free and Apache 2.0 licensed; Syntasso (the company behind it) sells an Enterprise tier for governance and support, and an "Agentic" tier specifically for AI-native operations. It's aimed at platform teams that want the flexibility of building their own internal platform without starting from zero.
💬 Our review
The short version: Kratix is worth it if you want to build your own internal developer platform and would rather start from a proven open-source framework than write the orchestration layer yourself — the free core is a real, usable foundation, not a limited trial.
Compared to Humanitec, which sells a more turnkey, opinionated orchestration product, Kratix asks more of your team upfront (you're building the Promises yourself) but gives you full control and no vendor lock-in on the free tier. The MCP support for AI agents is a genuinely forward-looking feature as of 2026 — most platform tools are still bolting AI on, while Kratix treats agent-driven requests as a first-class consumer alongside humans. The tradeoff is that you're evaluating an open-source project's maturity and community, not a polished SaaS product with a sales team walking you through it. <!-- ai-generated -->
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Gratuit en self-hosted ; Enterprise et Agentic sur devis
Pros
Open-source gratuit
Support MCP pour agents IA
Pas de vendor lock-in
Cons
Demande plus d'effort d'implémentation
Tarifs Enterprise non publics