Pantheon vs Salesforce Platform comparison

Pantheon and Salesforce are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. Pantheon is ranked #24, while Salesforce is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.0. Pantheon holds a 0.9% mindshare in PSP, compared to Salesforce’s 3.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Pantheon users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Salesforce users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Salesforce Platform and Pantheon cater to CRM/business process and web development/hosting, respectively. While Salesforce is superior in CRM and workflow automation, Pantheon has an edge in website management capabilities.

Features: Salesforce Platform offers robust CRM functionalities, comprehensive workflow automation, and extensive data integration options. Pantheon provides high-performance website hosting, automated web development workflows, and efficient version control systems.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Salesforce offers adaptable deployment across business environments with strong support. Pantheon provides a streamlined setup with easy Git integration and optimization for Drupal/WordPress, along with efficient customer service for web management projects.

Pricing and ROI: Salesforce has various pricing tiers offering significant ROI in customer management efficiencies with a generally higher initial investment. Pantheon offers flexible pricing, resulting in high ROI for organizations focusing on web presence and performance with cost-effective solutions.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Pantheon

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

24th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Web Hosting Services (10th)

Salesforce Platform

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

9th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile Development Platforms (3rd), Rapid Application Development Software (6th), Low-Code Development Platforms (6th), No-Code Development Platforms (2nd), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Pantheon is 0.9%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Salesforce Platform is 3.2%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

PaaS Clouds Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Salesforce Platform	3.2%
Pantheon	0.9%
Other	95.9%

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Featured Reviews

Abhinand Gokhala K

Technical Lead at Bigone Technologies

The product is user-friendly and performs well, but it is very costly compared to other tools

We are a software development company. We recommend solutions to our clients, but they ask us to compare it with other solutions. Clients compare the monthly costs of Pantheon with other servers and ask us to create the same environment in dedicated servers. If Pantheon reduces its cost, we can confidently suggest it to clients. Overall, I rate the tool a seven out of ten.

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Sharmila-K

Cloud Transformations and Infrastructure Delivery Manager at a university with 10,001+ employees

Integration processes improve but scripting requires effort

The updates, pricing part, and upgrades to the products are some of the most valuable features with the Salesforce Platform.With the Salesforce Platform, I have minimal experience of approximately one and a half years. I get minimal exposure, once every three or two months, especially during holidays. The Salesforce Platform is connected to the cloud, which is beneficial. When it is integrated with different tools such as Microsoft BI Analytics, it helps us analyze much better. Currently, the integration itself is tricky as we have to use extensive scripting. It should be more of a plug-in and use solution. That is the only issue I see, but otherwise, I appreciate it.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Pantheon has the most valuable workflow model."

"The product allows users to create multiple development environments."

"The solution is used to track our customers."

"The most valuable feature is ease of use."

"The Salesforce Platform's most valuable features are everything in one place, perfect reporting, highly customizable, and easy to receive information you need."

"Salesforce offers control over the opportunities to see where we are and gives me high-level dashboards on each opportunity stage."

"The technical support services are good."

"Stability of the platform is important, as are security and flexibility."

"he solution has improved over the years and the inputting of opportunity information is done a lot better and the GUI is good. The ability to customize dashboards and other elements was useful, we were able to move things around, for example, the forecasts. Most of the cells and input places were set, but we can customize the view and what we were looking at, such as on a daily, or weekly basis."

"The solution has plenty of features that are useful."

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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."

"There is always room for improvement. It can be hard to learn, but when you have somebody who is experienced in this, it is like anything else. It is like Excel, you'll never know everything about Excel, but there's somebody who would possibly know. I'm sure I don't know all of the ins and outs of Salesforce."

"If you have resellers or distributors, you just need to figure out a way to set up the system in the backend. Since every company is different, it takes a little bit of time to figure that out."

"The biggest challenge we had was the cost and the licensing."

"I have found it takes an exceedingly long time to put opportunities or clients in the system. If I have an opportunity that I need to put in the system it could take approximately 10 minutes. This is a lot of time when you have multiple opportunities to put in. There are other tasks to do that are required by supervisors, such as forecasts. What I have done to save time is I did not input as much detail as I could have because I knew it was going to take me an hour to get five leads in."

"I would like to have integration with Google."

"Getting reports in Salesforce is sometimes a little bit difficult. You need to do a lot of things to get detailed reports. This feature can be improved. Its price can also be improved. It is currently expensive."

"The reporting for Salesforce could be approved. It is a manual process and it would be useful to have a guide or videos on how to generate reports or any other cool things that you could do with the platform."

"The solution's UI is horrible."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The platform has reasonable pricing compared to other systems."

"It is very expensive. Its licensing is on a monthly basis."

"The cost is reasonable for the corporations I work for. I would say an average would be around $100 per month per user."

"It is a fair price for what it's offering, in comparison with other solutions that are available on the market."

"The solution is fairly priced."

"For the number of people that are using Salesforce Platform in my organization, I feel the price is reasonable."

"The licensing is per user per month, which we took out a contract on a long time back. It's really an okay price for what solutions are available and for how many features and what kind of functionality you get."

"Salesforce does a user capacity analysis on a regular basis. For example, if you're not using certain areas, you may lose access. If you don't go in and quote and edit quotes, all of a sudden you may lose your rights to quote."

"Salesforce charges double the rates, or almost three times, compared to its competitors. Our company does incur additional charges for maintenance and support."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

University

Financial Services Firm

Non Profit

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	39
Midsize Enterprise	26
Large Enterprise	39

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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.

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Salesforce Platform is a tool that provides application building with open application programming interfaces (APIs), integration tools, back-end services, starter templates, and developer environments. With a low-code interface, users are able to build applications and benefit from automated processes. The product helps customers to increase work productivity and save on IT costs through efficient, easy-to-understand, methods for creating applications.

Salesforce Platform allows companies to build and operate intelligent applications at scale and share them with employees and customers in real time. The tool secures companies' data while connecting and synchronizing it simultaneously across their Customer 360 accounts. The main components of the product are:

Application development: With low code, companies can build applications faster and automate their businesses.
Automation: The product can connect with Salesforce Genie, allowing employees to create seamless processes.
Security: The Shield component allows companies to secure their data and build applications.
Hyperforce: Companies have the option to scale globally and serve customers locally, providing secure, private, and agile solutions.
Einstein Intelligence: Organizations can utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to create personalized experiences for customers, potentially increasing companies’ growth.
Sandboxes: Salesforce Platform offers developers secure development environments where they can test, build, and deploy changes before rolling out final products.

Salesforce Platform Features

Also referred to as a “drag and drop app builder," this solution offers various features for customers to create intelligent applications and build personalized services for clients, partners, and employees within the apps.

Mobile feature: The mobile feature of Salesforce Platform allows users to build applications for mobile as well as turn already-made apps into mobile apps instantly.
AI: Through AI, users are able to personalize their applications, utilizing the smart assistant of the platform (called Einstein). The creation of customized services for clients can drive engagement and scale customer experience.
Vision feature: The Vision feature also utilizes Einstein Platform, where users can take advantage of Einstein Prediction Builder, Bots, Vision, and Language to create AI-powered applications.
Data protection: Salesforce Platform offers a data protection feature called Salesforce Shield. With it, companies can monitor app and data use, automate security policies, run compliance audits, and encrypt sensitive data.
Privacy and identity feature: Salesforce Customer Identity is a feature for privacy that offers user access through a single login. The feature provides a seamless user experience while maintaining a high level of security.
Community feature: The community feature of the product offers a digital experience platform where companies can create secure portals, applications, and websites.
Builder feature: The application building feature of Salesforce Platform offers various ways for users to create apps, including through low-code builders and pro-code tools.

Salesforce Platform Benefits

The benefits of using Salesforce Platform include:

Compared to manual coding products, Salesforce Platform is simpler for beginner users who want to develop a product.
The tool requires a low amount of coding, making it a quick and agile way to develop applications.
The adaptable design of the platform offers multi-layered security which maintains data accessible to users while protecting it from outside sources.
The product can be incorporated with various platforms and coding languages for application development.
The platform can be used to create applications compatible with large database systems like MySQL and Oracle.
Salesforce Platform allows collaboration between users, as it offers simultaneous access to various users at the same time.
Salesforce Platform is compatible with desktop databases such as Microsoft Access.

Reviews from Real Users

A vice president at a healthcare company values Salesforce Platform because it is flexible and user-friendly with helpful pre-built schemas.

Peter G., a senior technical consultant at a tech services company, rates Salesforce Platform highly because it is intuitive, quite easy to learn, and stores all kinds of relevant sales information.

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Sample Customers

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