ArchGenie
Summary
The gap between a whiteboard architecture and a working pull request has always been a graveyard for good intentions — hours lost translating diagrams into Terraform, only to find the security team has objections on day one.
ArchGenie closes that gap by generating infrastructure code directly from architectural descriptions or uploaded sketches, then running security and compliance validation before anything touches a repository. The vendor describes a workflow where design intent moves to a validated pull request without a manual translation layer. Cost estimation across AWS, Azure, and GCP is built into the generation step, not bolted on afterward. The free tier is credit-capped at a low threshold, so teams doing iterative design work hit the ceiling fast. No API is exposed and no self-hosting is offered, which means the tool sits outside any existing pipeline automation a team already runs.
Bottom line: ArchGenie is a strong fit for an architect who needs a validated IaC draft from a napkin sketch in under an hour — but teams that need to embed generation into a CI/CD pipeline or keep all code generation on-premises will need a different approach from the start.
Pricing Plans
SubscriptionLast verified 2 days ago- Price
- €29/mo
- Free Tier
- 10 credits/month, Architecture diagram generation, Infra code generation (Terraform), Security scanning, 2 Git exports/month, 1 branch per chat
Free
Free tier with limited credits and features
- 10 credits/month
- Architecture diagram generation
- Infra code generation (Terraform)
- Security scanning
- 2 Git exports/month
- 1 branch per chat
Pro
Most popular plan with 100 credits/month and all infra code formats
- 100 credits/month
- All infra code formats (Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep)
- Full security findings with line navigation
- Unlimited Git exports
- 3 branches per chat
- Inline code editing
- ZIP and CSV downloads
- Unlimited projects
- Credit top-up packs
Team Pro
Team plan with per-seat pricing and pooled credits
- 100 credits/seat/month u2014 pooled across the team
- Everything in Pro, for every member
- Admin dashboard with per-member usage
- Centralized billing, one invoice per team
- Flexible seat management, prorated
- Unlimited team projects
- Team-shared templates
- Team activity log (30-day)
Enterprise
Enterprise plan with custom credits and advanced features
- Custom credit allocation
- Everything in Team Pro
- SSO (SAML / OIDC)
- Unlimited branches
- Policy-as-Code (OPA/Rego) generation + enforcement
- Compliance framework packs (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP)
- Audit log API with SIEM integration + AI-BOM provenance
- Dedicated support, SLA
- Compliance & custom contracts
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Generates infrastructure code directly from natural-language descriptions or uploaded diagrams, so the manual translation layer between architecture and Terraform disappears and the first draft is ready in minutes rather than days.
- Security scanning and compliance validation run at generation time rather than in a separate CI stage, which means a misconfigured IAM policy or missing encryption gets flagged before the pull request exists — not after a security review blocks it.
- Built-in cost estimation across AWS, Azure, and GCP is part of the output, so architects see the financial impact of a design decision at the moment they make it rather than discovering it during a budget review.
- Direct export to version control as a pull request means the output lands in the team's existing review workflow without a copy-paste step, reducing the chance of drift between what was validated and what gets merged.
- Observability and monitoring configurations are generated alongside infrastructure code, so the gap between 'code that deploys' and 'code that is observable' does not become a separate ticket.
Cons
Sign in to edit- The free tier enforces a hard credit cap that limits the number of generations per month; teams doing iterative design — where three or four architecture revisions are normal before a design is stable — exhaust the free allocation quickly and face a paid-only gate before the tool has proven its value in their workflow.
- No API is available, which means generation cannot be triggered from a CI/CD pipeline, a GitHub Action, or any existing automation; teams that want infrastructure generation to run on push or on a schedule must maintain a separate manual step or abandon the tool in favor of a CLI-driven alternative that fits inside their pipeline.
- There is no self-hosted deployment option, so organizations with data residency requirements, air-gapped environments, or policies against sending architecture diagrams to a third-party cloud service cannot use the tool at all — this is the condition under which regulated enterprises switch to open-source IaC generation tooling they can run internally.
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About
- Platforms
- Web-based SaaS
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-06-01T16:40:41.909Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Cloud architects and DevOps teams designing multi-cloud infrastructure
- Organizations requiring security and compliance governance in IaC
- Teams seeking to reduce time from design to pull request
- Businesses managing costs across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Enterprise teams needing Policy-as-Code and audit trails
What it does well
- Generating infrastructure code from architectural descriptions or whiteboard sketches
- Security scanning and compliance validation of cloud architectures
- Rapid cost estimation and optimization for multi-cloud deployments
- Creating observability and monitoring configurations alongside infrastructure
- Exporting validated infrastructure code directly to version control pull requests
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is ArchGenie free?
- ArchGenie is a paid tool (€29/mo). No permanent free tier is offered.
- Is ArchGenie open source?
- No — ArchGenie is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- What platforms does ArchGenie support?
- ArchGenie is available on: Web-based SaaS.
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Most IaC workflows start with a design that exists nowhere a code generator can read — a whiteboard photo, a Lucidchart export, or a paragraph in a Confluence doc. ArchGenie takes that raw input and produces infrastructure code, then runs security scanning, compliance validation, and cost estimation against it before exporting to a version-controlled pull request. The core sequence is: describe or upload an architecture, receive generated code, review validation results, and push to source control — all inside a single tool without switching context.
The differentiating feature is that security and compliance governance runs inline with code generation rather than as a downstream CI step. Catching a missing encryption policy or an overly permissive IAM role at generation time — before the PR is even opened — removes a review cycle that typically costs a day or two and requires a security engineer’s attention.
ArchGenie fits teams in the design-to-draft phase: architects scoping a new service, DevOps leads prototyping a multi-cloud deployment, or governance teams who need Policy-as-Code and audit trails attached to every architecture decision. It breaks down for teams running iterative, automated generation at volume — the credit model on the free tier constrains iteration, and the absence of an API means generation cannot be triggered from an existing pipeline. Organizations that require all code generation to run inside their own network have no self-hosted path.