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Portainer vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Portainer
Ranking in Container Management
17th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Hat OpenShift Container...
Ranking in Container Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Portainer is 3.0%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is 15.7%, down from 22.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform15.7%
Portainer3.0%
Other81.3%
Container Management
 

Featured Reviews

EB
Developer with 1-10 employees
A GUI solution that helps to administer a docker using a browser
The first time using Portainer involves a learning curve. It takes longer as you're unfamiliar with the processes and might be lazy to consult the manual. Initially, you may rely on intuition within the GUI. However, after repeating the same tasks three or four times, the process becomes much quicker.
NM
Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa
Consistent performance impresses users while technical support needs improvement
I definitely recommend Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to other organizations due to its high availability, security, ease of use, and all the built-in features it offers. We do no maintenance for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform since ROSA is fully managed, and that's why it is a bit more expensive than EKS. The fully managed service includes 24/7 support, scheduling, and upgrades; we only need to inform Red Hat support about upgrades, and they manage the process end to end. Overall, I rate Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as a nine; although I would say ten, I think it's important to allow room for improvement.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Portainer comes with the ability to take the information of docker definition. Using it, I can visually observe how the container has been created. It allows me to create networks. I can also visually generate volumes and working stacks."
"The software is user-friendly and straightforward to use, which is favorable to a developer."
"I have found the ability to scale up is most valuable."
"Technical support is good; they are fast and reliable."
"Autoscaling is an excellent feature that makes it very simple to scale our applications as required."
"It has been a good solution to deploy all containerized applications."
"The architecture is the best. The solution is scalable if you are on a container-based solution."
"The most valuable are security features, particularly when operating in the cloud."
"I find the security features and use of operators in OpenShift Container Platform highly valuable."
 

Cons

"Portainer needs to be more intuitive."
"We've encountered challenges when transitioning applications between these environments."
"The monitoring is problematic. The product monitoring tool does not work for us."
"Things are there and the documentation is there, however, there still needs to be quick guides available."
"It is difficult to deploy the OpenShift cluster in a bare-metal environment."
"There should be a simplification of the overall cluster environment. It should require fewer resources. Just to run a simple Hello World app, it requires about seven servers, and that's just crazy. I understand that it is fully redundant, but it's prohibitively expensive to get something simple going."
"The product could benefit from additional operators and tools integrated with OpenShift."
"Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform needs some improvements, for example, in upgrade time, as normally, an extended upgrade method should be allowed, but sometimes if anyone clicks twice, it tries to upgrade the second level and gets stuck, so that area should be enhanced."
"OpenShift has certain restrictions in terms of managing the cluster when it's running on a public cloud. For example, identity and access management integration with the IM of AWS is quite difficult. It requires some open-source tools to integrate. This is one area where I always see room for improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The product is expensive."
"The product pricing is competitive and structured around vCPU subscriptions, aligning with our application requirements."
"The pricing is a bit more expensive than expected."
"The solution is expensive, and I rate it an eight out of ten. There is a subscription called OpenShift Plus, which offers additional features and products the vendor provides to complement the OpenShift Container Platform. These include ACM, Red Hat Quay, and Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation."
"The price is slightly on the higher side. It is something that can be worked on because most of the businesses now have margins."
"Its price is a bit high because it's a premium product, but as long as the business is ready to pay for that, it's okay."
"If you buy the product for a year or three, you get a lot of discounts...I feel that the product is worth its cost, especially since setting it up can be done with just a few clicks."
"The pricing is expensive for licensing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
University
7%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise40
 

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