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Adonis Platform vs Upbound Crossplane comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Adonis Platform
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
23rd
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Upbound Crossplane
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of Adonis Platform is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Upbound Crossplane is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Upbound Crossplane0.3%
Adonis Platform0.2%
Other99.5%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

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Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Process library has unified workflows and now provides transparent ownership across our bank
The complexity of versions in Adonis Platform depends on how complicated they are. If you create a simple flow, it is easy, but you can create flows with swimlanes and quite tricky options, and then it can become very large and very complicated. For simple tasks or for simple processes from operations, it is easy. Something that I miss in Adonis Platform is that we do not have a way to see who made changes. You can only see if you change the versions; you can see the older version, but you cannot see the history. Maybe if I work on Monday and I make some changes there, I can see the results today, but I cannot see the steps in between, the history. I miss the history. We also have an issue that we would really like to use AI, but it is a little bit difficult because we do not want to have all our processes available for external AI. So we have to create an internal AI, and I do not know if we are going to do it because this might be very expensive. I wish it would be easier for Adonis Platform to have some AI integrated. Also, the concept of rights is very difficult because everybody can access Adonis Platform, but only in a view-only mode. It is a very complicated process with ordering your rights for Adonis Platform because there are many different departments using Adonis Platform and they do not want everybody to be able to change their processes. So we have a rights concept for Adonis Platform, and it is quite complicated. The user permissions are very complicated and annoying. Overall I am satisfied with Adonis Platform, but it takes a while until you learn how it works. There are many questions from colleagues about how it works, what you can do, and what things mean. There is quite a lot of training necessary. I still think that AI would be a great contribution for Adonis Platform. For example, if you could tell AI to build you a process in BPMN style for whatever process, and AI would do it automatically, that would be perfect, but currently we are still doing it manually.
Diego Paradeda - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Philips
Automated infrastructure deployment has reduced our backend release time from days to hours
I found an issue with features that was difficult for me when we needed to retrieve some tags or IDs of a resource that we deployed using Upbound Crossplane, for example, the RDS. We encountered a problem where we needed to use the ID of the RDS in another document that we have, making it difficult to return this information using Upbound Crossplane deployment. I believe Upbound Crossplane could be improved by possibly having a feature that can return tags, IDs, or resources that were deployed inside AWS, such as needing to return the ID of the VPC that we create when using Upbound Crossplane. I think the current state of Upbound Crossplane is already good enough.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I can see all the different processes from the private bank within Adonis Platform, and that is excellent."
"Adonis Platform has positively impacted my organization because, considering the region is something new, in the last few years we have had some kind of transformation."
"Adonis Platform has positively impacted my organization by enabling us to connect processes with swim lanes, clearly defining roles, the systems used in the process, and the risks involved."
"Recently, I worked on invoice processing in accounts payable where analysis showed the process took 42 minutes, and through optimization efforts, we reduced it to approximately four minutes, achieving significant time reduction and cost savings."
"Adonis Platform has had a great impact on my organization as we are able to see end-to-end process mapping and identify areas for process improvement."
"When I provisioned PostgreSQL and S3 buckets through Crossplane, I noticed improvements in deployment speed, reliability, and team collaboration."
"Upbound Crossplane has impacted our organization positively as it has been a transformative experience because the main thing about transformation is how we were able to make our lives easier as engineers."
"Upbound Crossplane has positively impacted our organization by allowing us to reduce our deployment time from three days to three hours for the entire back-end and entire infrastructure."
"Before choosing Upbound Crossplane, I evaluated various options, but I only found Upbound Crossplane to be the best choice."
"We went from having a 28-member troubleshooting team down to four to five members of the platform engineering team."
"The time required to complete an environment setup was reduced from about one or two weeks to forty to fifty minutes."
"Upbound Crossplane impacts my organization positively because, from our perspective, we need to rely on fewer resources."
"The best features Upbound Crossplane offers are infrastructure as Kubernetes APIs and self-service infrastructure, where developers can provision resources without cloud credentials, and its strong multi-cloud support that makes it useful in managing AWS, Azure, and GCP from a single control plane with valuable GitOps integration."
 

Cons

"The user permissions are very complicated and annoying."
"I would advise using Adonis Platform. My overall review rating for Adonis Platform is six out of ten."
"For improvement of Adonis Platform, I want to see how we can connect it to ERPs and look at compliance of the processes being built."
"I would advise using Adonis Platform. My overall review rating for Adonis Platform is six out of ten."
"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the pricing and setup cost are high, while the licensing is acceptable."
"Adonis Platform is stable in my experience, but sometimes some functions are not available or do not work as they should."
"Regarding Upbound Crossplane, I see room for enhancement in synchronizing the state file of Crossplane with Terraform, as 90% of organizations have generally implemented Terraform and have their own specific, environment-specific Terraform state files."
"Regarding Upbound Crossplane's capabilities, I feel the governance and security is something which is lacking."
"However, one area of improvement is the learning curve, as Upbound Crossplane concepts such as providers, compositions, and claims can be difficult for beginners."
"One area where Upbound Crossplane can be improved is with API rate limiting."
"Upbound Crossplane was not stable in my experience."
"I found an issue with features that was difficult for me when we needed to retrieve some tags or IDs of a resource that we deployed using Upbound Crossplane, for example, the RDS."
"Upbound Crossplane can be improved if they can add more AI agentic workflows."
"The documentation needs to be updated regarding the needed improvements for Upbound Crossplane. There is very little documentation online, and there are no tutorials for Upbound Crossplane."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
22%
Consumer Goods Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Construction Company
30%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Adonis Platform?
I do not have much information on pricing, setup cost, or licensing, as I am not the person who handles those decisions; the IT team managed the purchase.
What is your primary use case for Adonis Platform?
My main use case for Adonis Platform is that we were traditionally using MS Visio to create process maps, and one of the projects that we had is to standardize the processes globally. We got this p...
What advice do you have for others considering Adonis Platform?
In my experience, Adonis Platform really helps with output; when we map the processes, the output we see is easily replicable, and we can apply it to our processes to see how it is working. I would...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Upbound Crossplane?
I find the pricing, setup cost, and licensing of Upbound Crossplane very suitable for research and development.
What needs improvement with Upbound Crossplane?
One area where Upbound Crossplane can be improved is with API rate limiting. For instance, if we frequently send some data to a specific API to poll the latest status of machines, it can result in ...
What is your primary use case for Upbound Crossplane?
Upbound Crossplane connects the cloud APIs on cloud providers like GCP, AWS, and Azure. We need to maintain the network resources and the VM containers, and the VM instance that Upbound Crossplane ...
 

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