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Gophish vs Upbound Crossplane comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Gophish
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Upbound Crossplane
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of Gophish 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 (%)
Gophish0.2%
Upbound Crossplane0.3%
Other99.5%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

JC
Administrador de sistemas informaticos en red at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Phishing awareness campaigns have improved training impact but still need smarter automation
I think Gophish could be improved with more automation, for instance. It is great that you can create templates, schedule them, and do everything you want in Gophish, but it would be nice to have a small integrated AI model with which you could create email templates and phishing templates. It would be nice if Gophish implemented artificial intelligence. I wish Gophish could provide more support and be more advanced and that they continue developing it because it seems that Gophish does not get many updates, and I think they need to implement more features. It is great because it is free, but it needs more features. It would be cool if there was an artificial intelligence model that could create phishing campaigns or templates or email templates for you integrated within Gophish. I would rate it a seven. It is quite good and free software, but it needs more substance. It also depends on the number of clients a company has; it may be necessary to launch Gophish in a staggered way, which I also think is a drawback Gophish has. The issue is that if there are many people being targeted, for example, 5,000 employees in a company and you send 5,000, it may be that sending so many messages gets blocked by the security systems companies have. I think that Gophish could also improve the message sending flows. I gave it a seven because there are things to improve and it is not perfect. As I said before, it would be nice if templates could be created with AI, integrated into Gophish using an API with Gemini or ChatGPT or whichever, but the point is that it would be nice if the sending flows at large scale were better managed. When you send a phishing campaign to 5,000 people, you have to send it in sections in a staggered way, for example: to these 5,000 people it is going to be sent between eight in the morning and four in the afternoon. If you send them all at once, the phishing may get blocked and then the campaign has no effect. I would like it if Gophish implemented more improvements because they are needed, as it is kind of a bit stagnant. I hope that in the future they add more improvements including creating personalized templates with artificial intelligence and improving the message sending flows.
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.

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Pros

"Gophish has positively impacted my organization by making it very easy to set up and start phishing campaigns."
"Gophish has positively impacted my organization by increasing awareness among my employees."
"Gophish has had a positive impact on my organization because it is open source, so it is free."
"Gophish has really improved security awareness in my organization."
"The best feature that Gophish offers is its customizability; it makes everything look very professional and makes tracking very easy."
"The impact it has had is that we have been able to sell it to clients who, for example, do not have the money to pay for a platform because they are small startups, and so with Gophish we create a solution that is cheaper for them."
"Gophish has impacted my organization positively in terms of security awareness, as I have noticed fewer phishing incidents and more responses towards reporting phishing emails as specific improvements."
"Gophish is stable and very reliable, and it has never let us down."
"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."
"Upbound Crossplane has positively impacted our organization by reducing the pipeline time, saving time, and decreasing cost spending."
"When I provisioned PostgreSQL and S3 buckets through Crossplane, I noticed improvements in deployment speed, reliability, and team collaboration."
"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."
"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."
"The time required to complete an environment setup was reduced from about one or two weeks to forty to fifty minutes."
 

Cons

"The customer support needs improvement."
"The one improvement I would like to see in Gophish is the booting up of the images, as it sometimes takes a lot of time and could be improved."
"Although the tool is very good, I think there could be some improvements, especially when it comes to leveraging AI for testing and also when it comes to the expansion beyond email phishing."
"I think Gophish could be improved because it is effective for its purpose, but there are certain features that can be enhanced."
"It does not handle lists well either, so when you have a big list of email addresses or users, it crashes, perhaps in the sending of the emails or somewhere else, but it crashes."
"Regarding how Gophish can be improved, the latest update is from 2022."
"While I mentioned that one of the best features of Gophish is its reporting and analytics capabilities, I believe it requires more focus to become even better."
"Gophish can be improved by adding more languages and maybe a web version for it, a SaaS platform."
"This was the only thing that we took as a disadvantage at the time of implementing, since we did not have any way to see what the Upbound Crossplane composition or what the Upbound Crossplane resource will do to the actual infrastructure."
"Upbound Crossplane can be improved if they can add more AI agentic workflows."
"One area where Upbound Crossplane can be improved is with API rate limiting."
"However, one area of improvement is the learning curve, as Upbound Crossplane concepts such as providers, compositions, and claims can be difficult for beginners."
"Regarding Upbound Crossplane's capabilities, I feel the governance and security is something which is lacking."
"Upbound Crossplane was not stable in my experience."
"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."
"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

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Construction Company
25%
Manufacturing Company
11%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
26%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
11%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Gophish?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing shows that the setup cost is not very high; Gophish is completely free, as it is an open-source tool.
What needs improvement with Gophish?
I believe Gophish can be improved in a few areas. First, the user interface could be made more modern and beginner-friendly. The current setup is simple, but for a new user, campaign creation, land...
What is your primary use case for Gophish?
My main use case for Gophish is to run a phishing awareness campaign inside an organization in a safe and controlled way. For example, instead of waiting for a real attacker to send a fake email to...
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 thing I have noticed about improving Upbound Crossplane is that, in Terraform, we can do a validation stage where people can say Terraform plan and see what changes it will do. It would be bett...
What is your primary use case for Upbound Crossplane?
Our main use case for Upbound Crossplane is that we are using Kubernetes as our main platform, and we have multiple clients who will be using this Kubernetes platform for deploying their container ...
 

Overview

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