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Palette vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

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

Palette
Ranking in Container Management
21st
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Agile and DevOps Services (7th), Edge Computing Platforms (2nd)
Red Hat OpenShift Container...
Ranking in Container Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
54
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Palette is 1.0%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is 13.8%, down from 20.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform13.8%
Palette1.0%
Other85.2%
Container Management
 

Featured Reviews

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Controller at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Workflow automation has boosted invoice processing but still needs finer approval routing
Palette can be improved as it does not have the ability to do very specific routing for invoices; in my case, I had multiple offices with multiple paths, and you had to know which particular office it was for. Depending upon the type of vendor invoice it was, sometimes it was difficult to know what path to put it on, so you need more detail in the approval matrix when you can set it up. I chose a 7 out of 10 because the approval matrix and the routing of invoices with specific customization were a bit lacking; I feel I needed more of that to be able to go into more detail on a per vendor basis or a per dollar value basis. Regarding Palette's AI capabilities, I definitely experienced some automation features related to accuracy. Due to the lack of flexibility in the building of the approval matrix, there was no way for it to code things 100% correctly, so intervention and review from a person were always necessary.
Marouane - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at MISSASERVICE
Integrated pipelines have accelerated continuous deployment and improved incident response
The powerful thing about Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is for deploying how to install our application, how to deploy it, and it is easy to work with this platform to do DevOps or CI/CD. It is easy to do CI/CD with this platform and to add functionality in our application. We can add functionality in our application easily with this platform. We can go quickly from dev testing, integrating, and deploying quickly with this platform. The integrated CI/CD pipelines of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform have a time-saving impact on our development process. When we use the CI/CD functionality, the main saving is really important compared to combining many other tools to have the same result. In Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, you have everything integrated, but in other platforms, you have to set up many tools to have the same output. In Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, it is ready to set up, or almost set up; you only have to configure it. Time-saving is one of the important things.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Palette has positively impacted my organization by increasing the ability to process more accounts payable invoices, stopping the reliance on emails and paper trails."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"OpenShift eliminates distractions so that we can focus on innovation and other things."
"I have found the ability to scale up is most valuable."
"It is easy to expand."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and logging functionalities."
"The solution's security throughout the stack and the software supply chain is very reliable. When it was on-prem, it was by default secured by our company firewalls and security tools, and now it's in the cloud, which has its security and systems in place. This provides stability to our infrastructure."
"The software is user-friendly and straightforward to use, which is favorable to a developer."
"The auto scalability feature, which is based on smart agendas, determined from pre-prepared rules is the most valuable feature. You can also create different routes for deployment. Deployment types can be provided with an identifier, such as an ARB deployment. This really helped in rolling out releases without disrupting services for the end-users."
 

Cons

"Due to the lack of flexibility in the building of the approval matrix, there was no way for it to code things 100% correctly, so intervention and review from a person were always necessary."
"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."
"With the recent trend of cloud-native, fully managed serverless services, I don't see much documentation about how a customer should move from on-prem to the cloud, or what is the best way to do a lift-and-shift. Even if you are on AWS OCP, which is self-managed infra services, and you want to use the ROSA managed services, what is the best way to achieve that migration? I don't see documentation for these kinds of use cases from Red Hat."
"The solution does not work on a route-wise NFS."
"I want to see more incorporation of native automation features; then, we could write a code, deploy it directly to OpenShift, and allow it to take care of the automated process. Using this method, we could write one application and have elements copy/pasted to other applications in the development process."
"I believe OpenShift Container Platform can improve in networking, architecture, and cloud areas by reducing deployment time, lowering costs, and streamlining engineer resources"
"There is room for improvement with integration."
"The product could benefit from additional operators and tools integrated with OpenShift."
"OpenShift Container Platform could improve by having better integration."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing is a bit more expensive than expected."
"The product pricing is competitive and structured around vCPU subscriptions, aligning with our application requirements."
"I'm an architect, so I have no involvement in the pricing and licensing of the platform."
"The price is slightly on the higher side. It is something that can be worked on because most of the businesses now have margins."
"We paid for Cloud Pak for integration. It all depends on how many VMs or how many CPUs you are using. They do the licensing based on that."
"The pricing is expensive for licensing."
"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."
"It depends on who you're talking to. For a large corporation, it is acceptable, other than the significant infrastructure requirements. For a small organization, it is in no way suitable, and we'd go for Amazon's container solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
37%
Manufacturing Company
19%
Construction Company
10%
Media Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise43
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Palette?
I was not involved in Palette's pricing, setup cost, and licensing, but given that it had already been set up in our European entity, I do not believe we had additional costs to set it up in our of...
What needs improvement with Palette?
Palette can be improved as it does not have the ability to do very specific routing for invoices; in my case, I had multiple offices with multiple paths, and you had to know which particular office...
What is your primary use case for Palette?
I used Palette for accounts payable workflow approval processing at my previous company. A specific example of how I used Palette for accounts payable workflow or approval processing is that OCR br...
Which is better - OpenShift Container Platform or VMware Tanzu Mission Control?
Red Hat Openshift is ideal for organizations using microservices and cloud environments. I like that the platform is auto-scalable, which saves overhead time for developers. I think Openshift can b...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenShift Container Platform?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the pricing is not that much due to the pay-as-you-go model of AWS. However, I am not aware of the setup cost as I have only worked on ...
What needs improvement with OpenShift Container Platform?
I have something regarding Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. It is a little bit complicated to set up Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on a local server. You have to buy or have many resour...
 

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