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Portainer vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Portainer
Ranking in Container Management
20th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
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 Portainer is 2.5%, down from 5.7% 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%
Portainer2.5%
Other83.7%
Container Management
 

Featured Reviews

EB
Developer with 1-10 employees
A GUI solution that helps to administer a docker using a browser
The first time using Portainer involves a learning curve. It takes longer as you're unfamiliar with the processes and might be lazy to consult the manual. Initially, you may rely on intuition within the GUI. However, after repeating the same tasks three or four times, the process becomes much quicker.
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

"Portainer comes with the ability to take the information of docker definition. Using it, I can visually observe how the container has been created. It allows me to create networks. I can also visually generate volumes and working stacks."
"Integrating the product into our existing infrastructure was easy."
"The product is stable, reliable, and easy to use, from a well-known company, has a large volume handling capacity, and more and more organizations are moving to OpenShift."
"It is easy to expand."
"The most valuable feature is that the solution can be deployed in the cloud which removes the expense of a server."
"It is very lightweight and can be deployed very fast, especially when it comes to containers."
"I definitely recommend Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to other organizations due to its high availability, security, ease of use, and all the built-in features it offers."
"It has been a good solution to deploy all containerized applications."
"Since we had limited time for our project, this solution was very helpful in getting us into production within a short time frame."
 

Cons

"Portainer needs to be more intuitive."
"The UI could be more user-friendly to drive tasks more effectively through the interface."
"One challenge is that sometimes it may be difficult to find the answers to your questions if you are not a Red Hat customer."
"Setting up OpenShift locally can be challenging, particularly because it requires RHL Linux and has specific restrictions."
"OpenShift Container Platform is an expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."
"The setup process is not great and could be better."
"Another thing that bugs me is that they removed the software in NFS storage. I don't understand why because this is a common type of storage. I am having problems with that, so I wish they would put it back."
"It has an option to install OpenShift without connecting it to the Internet. We tried this, but it was very hard. We couldn't manage to use that option. We wanted to use it offline for installations, updates, upgrades, etc., but we didn't find the offline installation and updates easy. This could be better."
"Quality of support may be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"If you buy the product for a year or three, you get a lot of discounts...I feel that the product is worth its cost, especially since setting it up can be done with just a few clicks."
"I'm an architect, so I have no involvement in the pricing and licensing of the platform."
"OpenShift pricing varies by region. For example, a simple cluster with three nodes in DAL-10 might cost around $560 to $580 per month, subject to specific configurations like memory and CPU cores."
"I'm not familiar with pricing or financial aspects. In terms of effort versus benefit, it's worth it."
"The product pricing is competitive and structured around vCPU subscriptions, aligning with our application requirements."
"We currently have an annual license renewal."
"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."
"The license to use the OpenShift Container Platform is free. If you are capable with Java you can modify it."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
University
7%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise43
 

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