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We performed a comparison between Pantheon and Pivotal Cloud Foundry based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Pantheon vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry Report (Updated: May 2024).
769,662 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"Pantheon has the most valuable workflow model.""The product allows users to create multiple development environments."

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"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution.""Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java.""Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance.""It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well.""PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime.""The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line interface has the ability to push instances to the cloud easily.""Stability is not a concern with this product.""We find its stability and scalability valuable."

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Cons
"The Multidev environment is very costly compared to other tools like AWS and GCP.""Pantheon has the most valuable workflow model."

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"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use.""Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features.""In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience.""The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it.""Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex.""In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools.""Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve the documentation. They are good, but they could improve more. Additionally, it would be beneficial if there were more use case examples.""Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The platform has reasonable pricing compared to other systems."
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  • "Licensing is on a monthly basis and right now we pay $24/month. There are no other costs over and above that."
  • "You're paying for the number of virtual machines you want to install in the installation."
  • "The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is based on the customer's requirements. However, the price is comparable to other similar solutions."
  • "The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve. However, in this category of solutions, they are all expensive."
  • "The pricing is on the higher side and there are cheaper options available."
  • "We do pay for the licensing cost because we have opted for a private cloud setup. So, it is a cloud setup, and we have to make payments based on the cloud size. I do not consider it very costly when comparing it to the market."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Pantheon has the most valuable workflow model.
    Top Answer:The platform has reasonable pricing compared to other systems.
    Top Answer:Pantheon's design is not familiar to use. It could be more user-friendly.
    Top Answer:Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native application platform to simplify app delivery. It is efficient and effective. The best feature is how easy it is to handle external services such as database… more »
    Top Answer:I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities.
    Top Answer:I would say it is around a nine out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. Just short of Oracle. It's sort of Oracle cloud.
    Ranking
    20th
    out of 37 in PaaS Clouds
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    502
    Comparisons
    441
    Reviews
    2
    Average Words per Review
    295
    Rating
    7.5
    7th
    out of 37 in PaaS Clouds
    Views
    10,776
    Comparisons
    9,720
    Reviews
    11
    Average Words per Review
    532
    Rating
    7.5
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    Also Known As
    PCF, Pivotal Application Service (PAS), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), Pivotal Function Service (PFS)
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    Overview

    Pantheon is the world’s fastest hosting for Drupal and WordPress. It comes down to our super-efficient container-based platform. Multiple independent benchmarks have compared Pantheon with other providers, and we consistently come out on top.

    Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is the leading enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry. PCF provides a cloud-native application platform that allows you to continuously deliver any app to every major private and public cloud with a single platform. PCF is proven to accelerate feature delivery with higher developer productivity and a 200:1 developer to operator ratio. PCF's built-in security and self-healing capabilities reduce risk in your app portfolio while maintaining high-availability at scale to keep customer facing systems online even in the most challenging circumstances. pivotal.io

    Sample Customers
    Patch, Maine Today, Alley Interactice, Scranton Gillette, AdRoll, Cisco, nVidia, Boston Herald, Tableau, Dell, Kyriba, Huddle, IBM
    Humana, Citibank, Mercedes Benz, Liberty Mutual, The Home Depot, GE, West Corp, Merrill Corporation, CoreLogic, Orange, Dish Network, Comcast, Bloomberg, Internal Revenue Service, Ford Motor Company, Garmin, Volkswagen, Solera, Allstate, US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, ScotiaBank
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    University10%
    Government8%
    Healthcare Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm56%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Retailer11%
    Government11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm38%
    Manufacturing Company21%
    Insurance Company6%
    Computer Software Company5%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise58%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise86%
    Buyer's Guide
    Pantheon vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Pantheon vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
    769,662 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Pantheon is ranked 20th in PaaS Clouds with 2 reviews while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews. Pantheon is rated 7.6, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Pantheon writes "The product is user-friendly and performs well, but it is very costly compared to other tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". Pantheon is most compared with Amazon AWS, Acquia Cloud, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and GoDaddy, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and VMware Tanzu Application Service. See our Pantheon vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.

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