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Tulip vs Upbound Crossplane 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:
 

Categories and Ranking

Tulip
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Upbound Crossplane
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of Tulip is 0.2%, down from 0.4% 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 (%)
Tulip0.2%
Upbound Crossplane0.3%
Other99.5%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

Prathamesh Kakde - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Digital workflows have replaced paper on the shop floor and speed up regulated manufacturing
Definitely, AI in a regulated industry is something that is a concern of the clients. However, Tulip can stick to 21 CFR Part 11 strictly when it comes to Tulip's AI capabilities. Tulip has already started to look forward to compliance-related things. For example, Tulip's AI widget offers data reading throughout the site. It does not allow any AI to interact with external systems when we apply firewalls on it. In this regard, if Tulip continues in that way, they can definitely stick to the governance and security. As of now, I didn't face any issue related to their AI capabilities. It is working fine but not accurate, which is a red flag in a GXP regulated system. This is my feedback on their AI capabilities. This has been introduced into the latest LTS version and needs more hands-on experience. Before that, I cannot give a direct justification or feedback on their AI capabilities being reliable and accurate. However, at the extent that I have used them, they are accurate and reliable as of now. Tulip is an emerging platform and being a cloud-native MES, it has a lot to improve. According to me, traditional MES like FactoryTalk PharmaSuite has more complex features and user-oriented use cases and complexities that the application itself handles. However, when it comes to Tulip, all the things that matter are in the hands of a developer. That is something that Tulip can improve on. Tulip can switch to a traditional way of delivering in the pharmaceutical industry while keeping the cloud-native impact intact. One improvement that I can give an example of is that Tulip has application templates. Instead of templates, they can offer concrete applications to their pharmaceutical or any specific industrial client for their specific needs, such as a recipe designer and production management for a pharmaceutical client. Then production or material tracking or BOM tracking for a discrete client. In that way, I can see an improvement where Tulip can perform well.
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Since using Tulip, my organization has positively transitioned from a lot of manual documentation for GMP compliance to digital, significantly reducing paperwork and now maintaining data retention within Tulip instead of manually."
"One of the best features that Tulip offers is having a bunch of connections with third-party tools such as ERPs and specific quality tools, just to have correct traceability of what is the concern about one client or something similar."
"Tulip has changed my life, as I started using it just for making some inventory, and now I'm moving forward to digitalize 100% of the facility."
"The best features Tulip offers are the low or no code features that enable users with no programming background to work on and build applications."
"Implementing Tulip has positively impacted our organization as we have transitioned from paper MBR and EBR to Tulip's online MBR, significantly reducing the time operators spent manually documenting activities, which also made audit trials easier to manage."
"Tulip is really about empowering people to build applications, and those people who build the applications are not necessarily only technical experts or developers."
"This flexibility and ability to adjust things have led to measurable improvements in our projects, particularly in terms of time saved and user satisfaction."
"Before, we needed many resources to monitor the production control area, but now, with Tulip, we can fulfill requirements and accomplish business objectives with a minimal amount of resources."
"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 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."
"We went from having a 28-member troubleshooting team down to four to five members of the platform engineering team."
"Before choosing Upbound Crossplane, I evaluated various options, but I only found Upbound Crossplane to be the best choice."
"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 impacts my organization positively because, from our perspective, we need to rely on fewer resources."
"When I provisioned PostgreSQL and S3 buckets through Crossplane, I noticed improvements in deployment speed, reliability, and team collaboration."
"The time required to complete an environment setup was reduced from about one or two weeks to forty to fifty minutes."
 

Cons

"One way Tulip can be improved is that the biggest challenge is if you already know programming. Tulip is extremely hard to set up because it doesn't follow standard programming rules."
"Regarding Tulip's AI capabilities, I perceive that it is not yet mature and is still in the testing phase, with several features rolled out for end users."
"I believe it is still at the beginning and not really advanced for the part I was using, so it could be improved."
"Tulip can improve by providing additional features developers can use in the application."
"Tulip can do a lot better in user interface."
"For complex applications, Tulip is not equipped well as of now."
"One area Tulip can be improved is addressing the issue that arises when multiple users use the same data tables for Tulip applications."
"Customer support receives a rating of two in my experience because they are very difficult to contact."
"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."
"However, one area of improvement is the learning curve, as Upbound Crossplane concepts such as providers, compositions, and claims can be difficult for beginners."
"Upbound Crossplane can be improved if they can add more AI agentic workflows."
"Upbound Crossplane was not stable in my experience."
"One area where Upbound Crossplane can be improved is with API rate limiting."
"Regarding Upbound Crossplane's capabilities, I feel the governance and security is something which is lacking."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
23%
Healthcare Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Construction Company
30%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Tulip?
Tulip can be improved by offering better design and better functionalities. While making the application workable is really good, we should also focus on being great and user-friendly. Tulip is alr...
What is your primary use case for Tulip?
My main use case for Tulip is to fill up all the data which will be available from backend for the use of a warehouse. In a warehouse environment, I use Tulip by recording all the data, which made ...
What advice do you have for others considering Tulip?
Regarding Tulip's AI capabilities, I believe its accuracy and reliability of output is good. Whatever data we provide from the data perspective is displayed, and whatever UI is created is there as ...
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 area where Upbound Crossplane can be improved is with API rate limiting. For instance, if we frequently send some data to a specific API to poll the latest status of machines, it can result in ...
What is your primary use case for Upbound Crossplane?
Upbound Crossplane connects the cloud APIs on cloud providers like GCP, AWS, and Azure. We need to maintain the network resources and the VM containers, and the VM instance that Upbound Crossplane ...
 

Overview

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