Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs SAP Cloud Platform comparison

Broadcom and SAP are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. Broadcom is ranked #13, while SAP is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.2. Broadcom holds a 8.9% mindshare in PSP, compared to SAP’s 6.7% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of SAP users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

SAP Cloud Platform and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) compete in the cloud services market catering to enterprise solutions. SAP Cloud Platform seems to have the upper hand in scalability and ERP capabilities, while PCF is noted for its ease of use and support for Java.

Features: SAP Cloud Platform offers extensive integration capabilities, scalability, and cloud-based flexibility, especially excelling in ERP and analytics for large enterprises. Pivotal Cloud Foundry stands out for ease of use, auto-healing, and robust deployment capabilities, allowing developers to focus on business services without technical challenges.

Room for Improvement: SAP Cloud Platform could enhance flexibility in its licensing model, improve integration support, and simplify connectivity with on-premise systems. Pivotal Cloud Foundry needs to enhance its support for more configurations and make migration processes easier while addressing complexity and adding advanced features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP Cloud Platform is primarily deployed in public cloud environments with strong customer support, though response times could be faster. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is available on private and public clouds, offering user-friendly deployment but requires improved customer service and faster support.

Pricing and ROI: SAP Cloud Platform is considered expensive for small enterprises with a difficult pricing model, yet offers significant ROI for large businesses by improving processes and reducing maintenance costs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry’s pricing is high but competitive, providing good ROI potential similar to other solutions.

To learn more, read our detailed Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs. SAP Cloud Platform Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

13th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SAP Cloud Platform

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

5th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is 8.9%, down from 9.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Cloud Platform is 6.7%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

PaaS Clouds Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SAP Cloud Platform	6.7%
Pivotal Cloud Foundry	8.9%
Other	84.4%

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Vasundhara Joshi

Senior Software Engineer at Wells Fargo

Seamlessly scalable since applications written in Java and .NET do not create issues for its users

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. However, if we go for Azure or some other cloud, we can get a lot of information. I believe there is not much information for Pivotal Cloud Foundry since it may be some license issue. If you go for Azure, the migration process is straightforward. Since we have been given 10 GB of space in the public cloud, we are utilizing it in our company. So, we are trying to deploy our application on the cloud, and for us, it is like a trial process for now. From our total application rate, I can say that only two to three percent is on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Currently, half of the code is in the shell script, which is causing issues. Also, most people in my organization have worked on Java-related code. For most of the applications, they are using the same, that is, shell script and AUTOsist, and so we haven't migrated yet. So that is the reason that we are planning to opt for a hybrid model so that we don't have to migrate completely to Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

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PinakiGhosh

COO at Data Core Systems

The implementation cycle has been reduced significantly but has room for integration enhancements

Our existing customers who are on ECC are on-premises. They are migrating to SAP Cloud Platform, specifically on S4HANA. One of our clients was on SAP ECC on-premises, and they are moving to the cloud on S4HANA on the public cloud system. We are supporting about 15 customers, mostly small to…

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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

"I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities."

"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier."

"Stability is not a concern with this product."

"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the UI, it is easy to use."

"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."

"It provides a set of developer-friendly tools that simplify application deployment."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance."

"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."

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"The tool's most valuable aspects are the niche technologies and the latest editions. The way these updates are rolled out makes it easy to manage because clients and customers are not responsible for keeping everything up to date. It's SAP's responsibility, which makes it much easier to take advantage of the new features they roll out every month."

"Feature-wise, I like it since it allows you to integrate with multiple applications. There are available connectors that allow you to integrate."

"The most valuable features of the SAP Cloud Platform are the extensions and integrations. Additionally, there are a lot of AI-based microservices."

"The product's initial setup phase is pretty straightforward."

"SAP Cloud Platform allows flexibility in integrating with other applications and supports customizations."

"The product captures data in real time."

"The mapping transformation allows us to connect our on-premise ECC to the cloud system."

"I rate the solution's scalability an eight out of ten. My company has 800 users."

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Cons

"There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features."

"It is not straightforward to setup."

"In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features."

"Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice."

"In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience."

"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use."

"I'd like to see a larger service offering."

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"SAP is expensive."

"The tool's reliability is a disappointment for us."

"Allowing more third-party applications to be integrated into the cloud platform would make it easier for customers to adopt SAP Cloud Platform."

"The addition of more industry use cases would be an improvement."

"When I started looking at the client's IT architecture, I started by doing a study of their services, DVM, data volume, and management services. According to the results, they could be a lot better at this."

"The areas I think this solution should improve are monitoring and adapting."

"In the next release, I would like to see improvements with the price and the licensing."

"I feel that SAP provides the tools, but after that, you are left on your own. It would be better if they provided more support throughout the usage of their solutions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve. However, in this category of solutions, they are all expensive."

"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."

"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 pricing is on the higher side and there are cheaper options available."

"Licensing is on a monthly basis and right now we pay $24/month. There are no other costs over and above that."

"I discovered that the SAP Cloud Platform is affordable, contrary to the impression that it's expensive. The pricing for extra packages or messages is quite reasonable, especially for things like message throughput and processing."

"SAP Cloud Platform Integration is an expensive product. I rate its pricing an eight out of ten."

"SAP Cloud Platform is expensive. It can be quite costly."

"The pricing can be negotiated."

"The tool could get too pricey...Small enterprises that want to leverage the tool's features will have difficulty in utilizing the solution."

"SAP offers yearly, subscription-based, and pay-as-you-use licensing."

"SAP Cloud Platform is generally more expensive than the other options."

"Licensing costs for this solution are based on the number of users and the bandwidth."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

37%

Manufacturing Company

17%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

15%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	25

Questions from the Community

Which would you recommend - Pivotal Cloud Foundry or OpenShift?

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...

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Which is better - SAP Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure?

One of the best features of SAP Cloud Platform is that it is web-based and you can log in from anywhere in the world. SAP Cloud Platform is suitable for companies of any size; it works well with bo...

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How is SAP Cloud Platform different than Amazon AWS?

How is SAP Cloud Platform different than Amazon AWS? Amazon AWS offers options both in terms of upgrading and expanding capabilities as well as acquiring greater storage space. These upgrades can ...

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What do you like most about SAP Cloud Platform?

The product improved our company's business operations since we got value out of it.

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Comparisons

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Compared 33% of the time

Microsoft Azure vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 30% of the time

Amazon AWS vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 12% of the time

Google Cloud vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 7% of the time

Azure Red Hat OpenShift vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 1% of the time

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Amazon AWS vs SAP Cloud Platform

Compared 28% of the time

Microsoft Azure vs SAP Cloud Platform

Compared 26% of the time

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) vs SAP Cloud Platform

Compared 6% of the time

Oracle Integration Cloud Service vs SAP Cloud Platform

Compared 5% of the time

Boomi iPaaS vs SAP Cloud Platform

Compared 2% of the time

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Also Known As

PCF, Pivotal Application Service (PAS), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), Pivotal Function Service (PFS)

SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Overview

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

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SAP Cloud Platform is an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) and PaaS cloud tool. It powers applications that deliver real-time insights to contribute to more effective and timely decision-making. Customers all over the world from different-sized companies use SAP Cloud Platform to build application extensions, integrate landscapes, or extend existing enterprise applications in the cloud.

The platform incorporates innovative technologies, including big data, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). SAP Cloud Platform supports native services and products by SAP, as well as partners with popular platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon AWS, and Alibaba Cloud.

Users of the product can extend, integrate, and develop applications on premises and in the cloud. The product offers flexibility, agility, and scalability, as it enables easy integration and connection of different applications within the platform. The solution is based on open standards and provides a wide range of development tools.

SAP has announced that they are removing SAP Cloud Platform as a brand name and moving its capabilities within SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). The features of SAP Cloud Platform will be integrated into SAP BTP to assist with data management and analytics, alongside other components of the platform. Existing customers of SAP Cloud Platform will continue to benefit from its products under SAP Integration Suite and SAP Extension Suite.

SAP Cloud Platform Capabilities

The solution offers a wide variety of tools, application capabilities, services, and application programming interface (API). These can be categorized in the following ways:

Enterprise extensions: The features of SAP Cloud Platform in this category include SAP Localization Hub, Tax Service, Data Enrichment for SAP S/4HANA, SAP Data Quality Management, SAP Business Application Studio, ABAP environment, and SAP Web IDE.
Intelligent BPM: This set of features includes SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Process Visibility, Business Rules, and Workflow.
Integration Suite: The features of SAP Cloud Platform in this category include Open Connectors, OData Provisioning, API Management, Cloud Integration, and Smart Data Integration.
Digital experience: Features in this category include SAP Conversational AI, Mobile Services, Document Service, Portal, SAP Build, SAPUI5, and SAP Fiori Cloud.
Data-driven insights: This category of capabilities includes SAP Leonardo Internet of Things, SAP Data Intelligence, SAP Edge Services, IoT, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Web Analytics, SAP Streaming Analytics, SAP ASE Service, and SAP Analytics Cloud.
Platform foundation: Alert Notification, Application Logging, Data Retention Manager, Job Scheduler, Java Server, and Transport Management are included in this group of capabilities.

SAP Cloud Platform Benefits

The platform has many benefits which improve their client’s workflows. They include the following:

SAP Cloud Platform facilitates the seamless integration of existing solutions and hybrid system landscapes.
The solution assists companies to deliver tailored end-to-end interfaces for improved user experience through software development kits (SDKs).
It simplifies application interface management through the option of building apps in the Kubernetes environment.
SAP Cloud Platform simplifies the development of native business applications through the various development tools and capabilities it offers.
It provides companies with a wide range of pre-configured business services.
Companies are offered the possibility to streamline the integration of new apps with a lowered overall cost of ownership.
The product can reduce costs for organizations, as it does not require an up-front investment in software or hardware.
The solution can increase productivity for developers through its supported open programming standards.

Reviews from Real Users

Shylaraj AK, a senior architect at a construction company, describes SAP Cloud Platform as easy to maintain, great features, and helpful support, which attributes to his high rating for the product.

Ehab-El H., chief executive officer at Asis, likes SAP Cloud Platform because it is easy to use with a fast deployment and straightforward setup.

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Sample Customers

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

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