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At a Glance
Google App Engine
Google App Engine
Star Rating
(287)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (43.1% of reviews)
Information
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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Pantheon
Pantheon
Star Rating
(705)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (62.5% of reviews)
Information
Entry-Level Pricing
$41 per month (prepaid annually)
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Google App Engine vs Pantheon

When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Pantheon easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Pantheon overall.

  • Reviewers felt that Pantheon meets the needs of their business better than Google App Engine.
  • When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Pantheon is the preferred option.
  • For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Google App Engine over Pantheon.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Google App Engine
No pricing available
Pantheon
BASIC PLAN
$41
per month (prepaid annually)
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Free Trial
Google App Engine
No trial information available
Pantheon
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.6
225
8.8
480
Ease of Use
8.4
228
8.7
481
Ease of Setup
8.5
116
8.7
373
Ease of Admin
8.5
96
8.7
373
Quality of Support
7.9
215
8.6
457
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.2
89
8.8
358
Product Direction (% positive)
8.4
217
8.2
462
Features by Category
Web Content ManagementHide 21 FeaturesShow 21 Features
Not enough data
8.9
181
Content
Not enough data
9.2
111
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.9
106
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.2
127
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
119
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.0
104
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.0
98
Not enough data
9.0
108
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
100
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.1
108
|
Verified
Design
Not enough data
8.4
76
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
76
Not enough data
8.4
74
Not enough data
8.8
86
Platform
Not enough data
8.9
114
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.9
101
Not enough data
9.0
102
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.1
126
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.2
130
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.9
89
Not enough data
8.8
133
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.9
117
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.2
110
Functionality
Not enough data
9.4
90
Not enough data
9.3
79
Not enough data
9.8
91
Management
Not enough data
9.2
75
Not enough data
9.6
95
Not enough data
9.1
86
Support
Not enough data
8.4
77
Not enough data
8.7
77
Not enough data
9.2
76
Continuous IntegrationHide 6 FeaturesShow 6 Features
Not enough data
8.7
68
Functionality
Not enough data
8.8
53
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
52
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
51
|
Verified
Management
Not enough data
8.5
56
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.1
61
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
56
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.7
14
Performance
Not enough data
8.6
12
Not enough data
7.7
13
Not enough data
8.0
14
Not enough data
8.2
13
Not enough data
7.3
11
Security
Not enough data
8.2
12
Not enough data
7.2
12
Not enough data
7.2
9
Not enough data
7.2
10
Free Resources
Not enough data
6.5
9
Not enough data
6.8
10
Not enough data
8.0
11
Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)Hide 13 FeaturesShow 13 Features
8.5
78
Not enough data
Development
9.0
67
Not enough data
8.4
65
Not enough data
8.5
65
Not enough data
8.0
66
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Database
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.0
60
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.5
58
Not enough data
8.5
62
Not enough data
Infrastructure
8.8
64
Not enough data
8.6
62
Not enough data
8.7
66
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Google App Engine
Google App Engine
Pantheon
Pantheon
Google App Engine and Pantheon share no categories
Unique Categories
Google App Engine
Google App Engine is categorized as Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Google App Engine
Google App Engine
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
43.1%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
31.3%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
25.6%
Pantheon
Pantheon
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
62.5%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
27.2%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
10.2%
Reviewers' Industry
Google App Engine
Google App Engine
Information Technology and Services
19.8%
Computer Software
16.4%
Telecommunications
3.8%
Financial Services
3.8%
Marketing and Advertising
3.4%
Other
52.7%
Pantheon
Pantheon
Marketing and Advertising
15.7%
Information Technology and Services
14.8%
Internet
11.3%
Computer Software
10.8%
Non-Profit Organization Management
5.7%
Other
41.7%
Most Helpful Reviews
Google App Engine
Google App Engine
Most Helpful Favorable Review
AA
Ahmed A.
Verified User in Wireless

Very minimal administration required. Easy configuration for auto-scaling. Google Cloud Endpoint makes it very easy to integrate mobile apps to the server REST APIs. Task queues make it very easy to execute long asynchronous tasks without having to...

Most Helpful Critical Review
SG
Sankul G.
Verified User in Entertainment

GAE ecosystem. Gae comes with its ecosystem and it's very easy to get attached to it. The ease of use of other services such as analytics and stack driver is great but it comes with a cost which can easily go way up. Then there are some versions of...

Pantheon
Pantheon
Most Helpful Favorable Review
JB
Jordan B.
Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Pantheon makes it really easy to spin up, administer, update, and deploy changes to multiple Drupal websites. The dev-test-live workflow they've created is kind of like magic, since code changes and databases can be transferred from one environment to...

Most Helpful Critical Review
Verified User
G
Verified User in Retail

If you are using woocommerce do NOT use pantheon. We launched and our site went down with 200 concurrent users. The fix? Oh yeah we have a known issue distributing your site along our architecture, try and fix it this way. Also want support? Pay $500 per...

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Discussions
Google App Engine
Google App Engine Discussions
why it does not provide full-text search API
1 comment
MR
They used to, but it got deprecated. We use https://firesearch.dev instead - which bring full-text search backed by Google Cloud Firestore.Read more
Monty the Mongoose crying
Google App Engine has no more discussions with answers
Pantheon
Pantheon Discussions
Is Pantheon considering offering price tiers for nonprofit/education organizations?
3 comments
NC
As Ian said, it doesn't hurt to ask, but nothing has been announced publicly ( https://pantheon.io/industry-solutions/nonprofit ). One way to save some...Read more
Any chance of allowing a Backup (on any Environment) to be easily used to spin up a MultiDev instance? It would be SO AWESOME to click a button and resurrect a 3day old backup on a new Environment and log into it and look around. :-)
2 comments
DG
Doug. Spin up the Multidev as you normally would, and then you can import your backup database to the environment via the database connection info pantheon...Read more
Can I host multiple URLs on one plan?
1 comment
Official Response from Pantheon
Each plan hosts one domain and any subdomains. Read more