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Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs SAP Business Technology Platform comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 15, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
15th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAP Business Technology Pla...
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
10th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
IoT Platforms (1st), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is 5.2%, down from 9.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Business Technology Platform is 5.5%, down from 7.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAP Business Technology Platform5.5%
Pivotal Cloud Foundry5.2%
Other89.3%
PaaS Clouds
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2263239 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
PCF allows for fine-grained configuration, especially regarding scaling but routing limitations
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. A few things, such as what OpenShift does better are cluster management. Like, you can manage the entire thing together. Currently, it's possible to manage all the clusters, especially when it comes to cluster management using straightforward configuration. As of now, we have to handle each application instance individually, which means servicing them one by one. It would be better if we could perform these actions as a group or in a more streamlined manner. One more downside is actually the cost of this environment. So, major downside of Pivotal, it's the cost. So, the runtime running costs are very high. Extremely high.
HP
Head of Department ERP at The Singareni Collieries Company Limited
Consistently beneficial with excellent accessibility although support's response time needs improvement
The features and functions of the SAP Cloud Platform are very good; the performance is improved when compared with the older versions. Earlier, we were using Oracle DB, and after HANA DB migration, it is fine. We are getting the reports, and processing time is also reduced. Almost all the features of the SAP Cloud Platform are fine and good. SAP Fiori has also entered into the picture, and we are developing the Fiori apps. We have started with the BTP for the new innovations as per the SAP roadmap. The main benefits of the SAP Cloud Platform for us are that earlier we had the primary data center at our place, but now we have shifted to the cloud. The maintenance is free for us; the maintenance is completely done by this SAP partnership with Cloud4C. We have started using the SAP Analytics Cloud, and we have developed many applications for SAP SAC. We are going to give the presentation to our chairman most probably next week. The analytics features positively influence decision-making for us. The SAP Cloud Platform has been effective for us because the processing time is reduced, and we can access it easily.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features are the monitoring and that the deployment is easier."
"I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided."
"It provides a set of developer-friendly tools that simplify application deployment."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies, and it has very good performance."
"The solution is stable, and we have not experienced any infrastructure issues, so it is very good and captures a few metrics, onboarding to App Dynamics."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."
"It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well."
"Its integration with SAP solutions is impressive, so if you have applications that utilize SAP data, the SAP Cloud Platform is pretty good."
"The most valuable features of SAP Cloud Platform are security integration and scalability."
"Great Integration Suite, with CPI being its stable component."
"My advice to anyone who is doing such a thing right now is not to listen to the old reputation of SAP in terms of complexity and difficulty in deployment."
"Feature-wise, I like it since it allows you to integrate with multiple applications. There are available connectors that allow you to integrate."
"The features I found most valuable are the integration options."
"The integration flows are the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The product captures data in real time."
 

Cons

"There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"Scalability is terrible. So far we have not been able to scale it up."
"It should offer more security features."
"It is not straightforward to setup."
"I'd like to see a larger service offering."
"In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools."
"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."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."
"I want to see better pricing from the SAP Cloud Platform in the future. I also want more security and scalability from it."
"For some of our customers, the product is too costly to purchase all the components or services."
"We need to connect our ERP solution via the VPN. We need to make sure our ERP solutions aren't exposed to the outside world. Our teams really struggle with this."
"What I would like to see improved is the learning curve."
"Everything is very expensive, so it is not helping with the infrastructure costs."
"The product's support team has certain shortcomings, not from the solution's portal perspective but from the back-end side."
"I would like for it to have integration to GitHub."
"SAP Cloud Platform's installation is not straightforward. You need a person with knowledge to handle it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve. However, in this category of solutions, they are all expensive."
"Licensing is on a monthly basis and right now we pay $24/month. There are no other costs over and above that."
"The pricing is on the higher side and there are cheaper options available."
"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."
"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."
"The product's pricing varies and depends on the customers' needs."
"SAP offers yearly, subscription-based, and pay-as-you-use licensing."
"The solution is worth the money."
"Cost-wise, I'm unsure of how expensive the SAP Cloud Platform is."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price, I rate the pricing a six or seven."
"I discovered that the SAP Cloud Platform is affordable, contrary to the impression that it's expensive. The pricing for extra packages or messages is quite reasonable, especially for things like message throughput and processing."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."
"The pricing can be negotiated."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
30%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
5%
Comms Service Provider
4%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise27
 

Questions from the Community

Which would you recommend - Pivotal Cloud Foundry or OpenShift?
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...
Which is better - SAP Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure?
One of the best features of SAP Cloud Platform is that it is web-based and you can log in from anywhere in the world. SAP Cloud Platform is suitable for companies of any size; it works well with bo...
How is SAP Cloud Platform different than Amazon AWS?
How is SAP Cloud Platform different than Amazon AWS? Amazon AWS offers options both in terms of upgrading and expanding capabilities as well as acquiring greater storage space. These upgrades can ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Cloud Platform?
The pricing is not suitable for small or medium organizations. Price and features are concerns.
 

Also Known As

PCF, Pivotal Application Service (PAS), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), Pivotal Function Service (PFS)
SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the Internet of Things, SAP Cloud Platform
 

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Sample Customers

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
Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone
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