Is Roadie SaaS or on-prem?
Roadie has been running a SaaS version of Backstage since 2020 and it is every bit as customizable and secure as self-hosting Backstage.
Developer effectiveness for teams of all shapes and sizes.
Backstage is the best tool on the market for building Internal Developer Portals (IDPs). However, it requires significant investment to take the raw building blocks that Backstage offers and turn them into a true Internal Developer Portal.
With Roadie, we have taken the open-source version of Backstage and used it to build a comprehensive and maintenance-free IDP.
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Bring your own data model | Included in Roadie |
| Adding and updating Catalog items via YAML | Included in Roadie |
| Updating Catalog items in the UI | Included in Roadie |
| Adding and updating Catalog items via API | Included in Roadie |
| Out of the box data ingestion (k8s, GitHub, CI/CD, etc) | Included in Roadie |
| SCM Support | GitHub Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Server, Azure DevOps, GCP, GitLab Cloud, GitLab On-Prem, BitBucket Cloud, BitBucket Server |
| Syncing repositories as items in the Catalog | Included in Roadie |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| RAG AI | Included in Roadie |
| MCP Servers | Included in Roadie |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Scorecards | Included in Roadie |
| Checks | Included in Roadie |
| Team-based rollups | Included in Roadie |
| Historical data | Included in Roadie |
| Operational reviews | Included in Roadie |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Self-serve actions | Included in Roadie |
| Custom self-serve actions | Included in Roadie |
| Custom field extensions | Included in Roadie |
| Fallback and retry | Included in Roadie |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Docs from Markdown | Included in Roadie |
| Extensibility via plugins | Included in Roadie |
| Mermaid support | Included in Roadie |
| PlantUML support | Included in Roadie |
| Auto rebuild docs in background | Included in Roadie |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Available Plugins | 75+ |
| Secure access to on-prem infrastructure and resources | Included in Roadie |
| Theme customisation | Included in Roadie |
| Layout customisation | Included in Roadie |
| Catalog UI customisation | Included in Roadie |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Engine | OpenSearch (Elasticsearch) |
| Additional search collators | Atlassian Confluence |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| SSO | Included in Roadie |
| Entities created in the Catalog for each user and group | Included in Roadie |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Admin and non-Admin roles | Included in Roadie |
| Role assignment in the UI | Included in Roadie |
| Role assignment by identity provider token | Included in Roadie |
| Custom roles | Included in Roadie |
| Custom permissions policies | Included in Roadie |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Hosting | Included in Roadie |
| Automatic monthly upgrades | Included in Roadie |
| Usage analytics | Included in Roadie |
| Support | Email, Slack/Teams, and 24/7 On-call |
| Uptime SLA | Included in Roadie |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Bring your own data model | DIY |
| Adding and updating Catalog items via YAML | Included in Backstage |
| Updating Catalog items in the UI | Not available in Backstage |
| Adding and updating Catalog items via API | Not available in Backstage |
| Out of the box data ingestion (k8s, GitHub, CI/CD, etc) | Included in Backstage |
| SCM Support | GitHub Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Server, Azure DevOps, GCP, GitLab Cloud, GitLab On-Prem, BitBucket Cloud, BitBucket Server, Gerrit |
| Syncing repositories as items in the Catalog | Not available in Backstage |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| RAG AI | Not available in Backstage |
| MCP Servers | Not available in Backstage |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Scorecards | Not available in Backstage |
| Checks | Not available in Backstage |
| Team-based rollups | Not available in Backstage |
| Historical data | Not available in Backstage |
| Operational reviews | Not available in Backstage |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Self-serve actions | Included in Backstage |
| Custom self-serve actions | Included in Backstage |
| Custom field extensions | Included in Backstage |
| Fallback and retry | Included in Backstage |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Docs from Markdown | Included in Backstage |
| Extensibility via plugins | Included in Backstage |
| Mermaid support | Included in Backstage |
| PlantUML support | Included in Backstage |
| Auto rebuild docs in background | Not available in Backstage |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Available Plugins | DIY |
| Secure access to on-prem infrastructure and resources | Included in Backstage |
| Theme customisation | DIY |
| Layout customisation | DIY |
| Catalog UI customisation | DIY |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Engine | PostgreSQL |
| Additional search collators | DIY |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| SSO | DIY |
| Entities created in the Catalog for each user and group | DIY |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Admin and non-Admin roles | Included in Backstage |
| Role assignment in the UI | Not available in Backstage |
| Role assignment by identity provider token | Not available in Backstage |
| Custom roles | Not available in Backstage |
| Custom permissions policies | Not available in Backstage |
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Hosting | Not available in Backstage |
| Automatic monthly upgrades | DIY |
| Usage analytics | Not available in Backstage |
| Support | via OSS community |
| Uptime SLA | Not available in Backstage |
| Feature by | Roadie | Backstage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get started | |||
| Software catalog | |||
| Bring your own data model | Included in Roadie | DIY | |
| Adding and updating Catalog items via YAML | Included in Roadie | Included in Backstage | |
| Updating Catalog items in the UI | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Adding and updating Catalog items via API | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Out of the box data ingestion (k8s, GitHub, CI/CD, etc) | Included in Roadie | Included in Backstage | |
| SCM Support | GitHub Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Server, Azure DevOps, GCP, GitLab Cloud, GitLab On-Prem, BitBucket Cloud, BitBucket Server | GitHub Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Server, Azure DevOps, GCP, GitLab Cloud, GitLab On-Prem, BitBucket Cloud, BitBucket Server, Gerrit | |
| Syncing repositories as items in the Catalog | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| AI (beta) | |||
| RAG AI | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| MCP Servers | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Scorecards | |||
| Scorecards | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Checks | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Team-based rollups | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Historical data | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Operational reviews | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Scaffolder | |||
| Self-serve actions | Included in Roadie | Included in Backstage | |
| Custom self-serve actions | Included in Roadie | Included in Backstage | |
| Custom field extensions | Included in Roadie | Included in Backstage | |
| Fallback and retry | Included in Roadie | Included in Backstage | |
| TechDocs | |||
| Docs from Markdown | Included in Roadie | Included in Backstage | |
| Extensibility via plugins | Included in Roadie | Included in Backstage | |
| Mermaid support | Included in Roadie | Included in Backstage | |
| PlantUML support | Included in Roadie | Included in Backstage | |
| Auto rebuild docs in background | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Other plugins and extensions | |||
| Available Plugins | 75+ | DIY | |
| Secure access to on-prem infrastructure and resources | Included in Roadie | Included in Backstage | |
| Theme customisation | Included in Roadie | DIY | |
| Layout customisation | Included in Roadie | DIY | |
| Catalog UI customisation | Included in Roadie | DIY | |
| Search | |||
| Engine | OpenSearch (Elasticsearch) | PostgreSQL | |
| Additional search collators | Atlassian Confluence | DIY | |
| Users and Groups | |||
| SSO | Included in Roadie | DIY | |
| Entities created in the Catalog for each user and group | Included in Roadie | DIY | |
| Role-based Access Control | |||
| Admin and non-Admin roles | Included in Roadie | Included in Backstage | |
| Role assignment in the UI | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Role assignment by identity provider token | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Custom roles | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Custom permissions policies | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Non-feature extras | |||
| Hosting | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Automatic monthly upgrades | Included in Roadie | DIY | |
| Usage analytics | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
| Support | Email, Slack/Teams, and 24/7 On-call | via OSS community | |
| Uptime SLA | Included in Roadie | Not available in Backstage | |
Roadie has been running a SaaS version of Backstage since 2020 and it is every bit as customizable and secure as self-hosting Backstage.
Yes. Write a native Backstage plugin as normal and use our CLI to publish it to Roadie. It stays private to your company. Read more in our docs.
All data is stored within the EU and is encrypted at rest using AES-256 encryption algorithm. AWS KMS is used to manage and protect the encryption keys. Data is backed up to AWS S3 at least once per day.
Growth plan customers gets a shared Slack or MS Teams channel. We pride ourselves on our responsiveness. We also deeply value customer feedback and prioritize your requests in our roadmap.
Our status page can be found at https://status.roadie.io/ .
We count "contributing users". These are developers who write the code which is tracked in the software catalog. People who don't write code can log in for free.
Roadie Backstage plugins can securely connect back to your infrastructure APIs via a variety of mechanisms like OAuth2, token authentication by using a broker service. Learn more about how Roadie connects to your tools .
We support GitHub Cloud and on-prem, GitLab Cloud and on-prem, BitBucket Cloud and Server, and Azure DevOps.
We support GitHub Cloud and on-prem, GitLab Cloud and on-prem, BitBucket Cloud and Server, and Azure DevOps.
Yes. Roadie has achieved SOC2 Type 2 compliance. You can read more about this on our blog.
Roadie is extremely customizable. You can edit layouts, add and remove plugins, change the theme, run arbitrary code with the scaffolder, write your own plugins and more.
