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Netlify Platform vs ngrok comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
4.5
Netlify Platform saves time and reduces costs, streamlining deployments and improving project execution without financial investment.
Sentiment score
6.0
Users save time and resources with ngrok's easy setup, facilitating API connectivity and reducing project and testing efforts.
Time saved is exponential because the amount of work that gets done in a sprint is accelerated because of Netlify Platform.
AI Solutions Architect at Structures of Legacy
It already improved the developer experience and also the client experience with us, and even the management experience and the testing experience.
Senior Software Engineer at Rihal
There was a lot of money saved, as we were building the application from scratch and paying employees using our own technical skills to build the application.
Technical Product Manager at Prentice-Hall Inc.
Since we were using the free tier, it was giving us very good savings on resources and time.
full stack developer intern at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I have saved time from sharing screens, taking screenshots, and creating presentations, which is now streamlined to just pushing projects to ngrok for access, saving me about eight to ten hours a month.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
As for time, I saved at least seven or eight hours that I would have spent trying to find a solution to the API gateway connectivity issue I faced.
AI Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.0
Users find customer service satisfactory, citing effective documentation and support, but some desire quicker responses for complex issues.
Sentiment score
6.9
Ngrok support is praised for its proactivity and effectiveness; paid users report faster responses, while resources aid all users.
However, I see there are options for AI and customer service; before going to customer service, we can select the AI and get help most of the time, as everything is documented.
Software Developer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The response was timely and helpful, and the issues were resolved efficiently.
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Netlify Platform's customer support is excellent.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees
we were able to get our solution
Data Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
The customer support was really amazing, as they have always been proactive in responding to our queries or issues related to access.
Lead Engineer Senior Forntend Developer at Adobe
The customer support was pretty helpful for them.
full stack developer intern at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
5.7
Netlify Platform is praised for smooth, automatic scalability, efficient traffic handling, and consistent performance, despite some feature challenges.
Sentiment score
6.8
Ngrok is praised for its scalability, effectively supporting multiple projects and user satisfaction across varying usage levels.
The performance stays consistent globally.
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
There are no issues regarding scalability.
Tech Lead at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
It helps you avoid any errors or bugs in the application, which helps you fix errors too, with automatic testing rather than manual testing.
Technical Product Manager at Prentice-Hall Inc.
ngrok is highly scalable, allowing multiple servers or URLs created within the same account, facilitating smooth collaboration among multiple teams and developers.
Lead Engineer Senior Forntend Developer at Adobe
The product is scalable and stands out for me as a 10.
Developer at Probus Insurance Broker Pvt
Ngrok is also scalable.
Data Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Netlify Platform offers high stability, minimal downtime, effective scalability, and reliable deployments, making it a top hosting choice.
Sentiment score
8.8
Ngrok is praised for its stability and scalability, with users preferring it for its reliability despite free tier limitations.
In terms of scalability, it scales very well and easily handles increased traffic, more projects, and growing team usage without any additional infrastructure effort from our side.
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's completely, in my view, 100% stable and always available.
Tech Lead at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
Netlify Platform is generally stable, and I have not experienced significant downtime or issues.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees
ngrok is very stable, as we have not faced issues while running multiple servers and APIs.
Lead Engineer Senior Forntend Developer at Adobe
ngrok has been stable for the amount of time I have used it.
AI Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
ngrok has been stable since I started using it, although there are some restrictions due to the free tier.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Netlify Platform needs a centralized dashboard, better GitHub integration, performance improvements, pricing transparency, and enhanced backend and AI capabilities.
Users request improved pricing, more flexible features, better documentation, and integration, while addressing latency, security, and error clarity.
Additionally, more advanced monitoring and logging features inside the platform would be very useful for troubleshooting.
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
You can add integrations such as API services and a secret service so that users do not have to manage environment variables manually through the GUI or web service.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The improvement must be a powerful back-end support like APIs and databases.
Full Stack Developer at Sri Krishna Arts and Science
Making persistent tunnels and reserved URLs more flexible in the lower plans would change my workflow by reducing repeated setup and making webhook testing and demos faster.
AI Solutions Lead at ADP
In terms of features, ngrok is very feature-rich and reliable.
Lead Engineer Senior Forntend Developer at Adobe
Many people prefer an open source alternative such as a local tool over ngrok.
full stack developer intern at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
 

Setup Cost

Netlify Platform offers transparent, reasonable pricing, with a free tier and cost-effective options for various enterprise project sizes.
Ngrok pricing is affordable and user-friendly, with a free tier and reasonable paid plans, despite some Indian competitiveness concerns.
We recommend it for deployment to clients who cannot afford larger budgets for Vercel or AWS.
Technical Project Manager at Anglebrackets.io
Since I use the free tier, there is no question about pricing or setup costs.
software engineer at Algohire Technologies Pvt
It was just a monthly subscription.
Technical Product Manager at Prentice-Hall Inc.
The pricing is quite good, especially for the features it provides.
Lead Engineer Senior Forntend Developer at Adobe
I mainly used the free version for my personal and company needs as the main user, so I did not have to pay for anything.
Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Probus Insurance Broker Pvt
However, it could be cheaper in India.
AI Engineer at Probus Insurance Broker Limited
 

Valuable Features

Netlify excels with GitHub integration, serverless functions, CI/CD, global CDN, and cost-effective deployments, enhancing efficiency and collaboration.
Ngrok offers valuable features like secure tunnels, request inspection, real-time testing, and user-friendly integration, saving developers time.
The best feature of Netlify Platform is how easily I am able to integrate it with GitHub and GitLab, along with how user-friendly it is.
Software Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
I have used multiple plugins within it, and they are quite easy to use, such as adding environment variables, adding secrets, and adjusting the size of the hosted application, which means the memory, CPU, and virtual CPU memory are very convenient for me to manage.
Senior software engineer at Simplifyvms
When it comes to the new modern frameworks, all the other platforms require extra configurations to get deployed into the DNS servers, but using Netlify Platform, it is easy; everything is handled by Netlify Platform in the backend, and the deployment process and all the CI/CD pipeline that Netlify Platform handles is something which is good in regard to the modern frameworks which are used nowadays.
Software Developer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
There is a specific feature for request replay that makes it very useful for debugging and testing whenever a request has been hit with ngrok.
Lead Engineer Senior Forntend Developer at Adobe
ngrok has positively impacted my organization for development and testing purposes, making it very easy for my teammate to check a website or my local machine code for review.
Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Probus Insurance Broker Pvt
It works as a web inspector and is very useful for debugging webhooks and APIs.
AI Engineer at Probus Insurance Broker Limited
 

Categories and Ranking

Netlify Platform
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (5th)
ngrok
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
IT Governance (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Netlify Platform and ngrok aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Netlify Platform is designed for PaaS Clouds and holds a mindshare of 0.3%.
ngrok, on the other hand, focuses on IT Governance, holds 1.0% mindshare.
PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Netlify Platform0.3%
Amazon AWS13.6%
Microsoft Azure12.2%
Other73.9%
PaaS Clouds
IT Governance Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ngrok1.0%
RSA Archer20.6%
MetricStream15.2%
Other63.2%
IT Governance
 

Featured Reviews

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Tech Lead at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
Rapid prototypes have accelerated my web app demos and streamlined real-time feature testing
There could be a simple interface where I can turn on and off CI/CD in a single place on Netlify Platform. Right now I have to go to each and every instance that I'm using and get into the settings and turn on and off that auto-deployment mode or all of that becomes a little time-taking. Since I know the user interface, it's easy for me, but for newcomers, going into that granular level of control might be on the higher side. It will take a lot of time. If there could have a kind of dashboard where I can pause the CI/CD for each product or for each project instance, that will be better. The free tier of Netlify Platform itself is enough for most of the users. If at all they want to do more, they could increase the free tier limit. Currently it's around 300 minutes per month. If they could increase it or set a daily limit, that will be better instead of setting a monthly limit. Most of the times I lose track of how much I have used this.
Suraj Jha - PeerSpot reviewer
AI Engineer at Probus Insurance Broker Limited
Generated secure public links has streamlined testing workflows and daily project sharing
ngrok has positively impacted my organization by making development easier because we can check and generate our public URL. It is saving more time, reducing stress, and allowing us to work faster. We can share a link with our teammates so we can check it and do everything we need. After using ngrok for our first project, which was HTML to Base64, HTML to PDF, and PDF to Base64, it worked on the first attempt, so we saved a lot of time. Then we generated our main server, uploaded it to our server, and generated its API. Because of ngrok, we saved two or three days on that project.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
University
12%
Government
9%
Insurance Company
42%
Construction Company
17%
Computer Software Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business27
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Netlify Platform?
Please increase the limit for free users and college and school students using Netlify Platform, as they have many projects but not the correct platform for posting free or open source projects. Ma...
What is your primary use case for Netlify Platform?
I use Netlify Platform for hosting my projects and my client projects, and testing the entire projects and how hosting works. Everything is functioning well regarding my main use case and projects ...
What advice do you have for others considering Netlify Platform?
I would rate Netlify Platform a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. My advice to others looking into using Netlify Platform is that it is a great option.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ngrok?
I primarily use ngrok in the free tier, which is superb. The setup is easy, and the documentation is outstanding, making it easy to resolve any issues I face without needing to contact customer sup...
What needs improvement with ngrok?
One improvement I have noticed is when configuring integrations with external APIs like Slack. After a machine or session restart, I have to generate a new URL, forcing me to change the webhooks in...
What is your primary use case for ngrok?
In my AI automation field, I have been working for around eight to twelve months. The main use case where ngrok comes into the picture is when I create any development projects, which can be coded ...
 

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