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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: March 2024).
768,415 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The product allows users to create multiple development environments.""Pantheon has the most valuable workflow model."

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"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime.""The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided.""Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java.""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.""It is a scalable product...We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET.""We find its stability and scalability valuable.""The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution.""The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."

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

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"In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience.""Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry.""The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it.""It is not straightforward to setup.""It should offer more security features.""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.""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."

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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
    Views
    497
    Comparisons
    436
    Reviews
    2
    Average Words per Review
    295
    Rating
    7.5
    7th
    out of 37 in PaaS Clouds
    Views
    11,015
    Comparisons
    9,966
    Reviews
    11
    Average Words per Review
    532
    Rating
    7.5
    Comparisons
    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 Company5%
    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
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Pantheon vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    768,415 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 Salesforce Platform, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with Microsoft Azure, OpenShift, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and VMware Tanzu Application Service. See our Pantheon vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.

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