Google App Engine vs. Netlify Platform

Google App Engine

Google App Engine

228 Reviews and Ratings

Netlify Platform

Netlify Platform

19 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Google App Engine	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Google App Engine is Google Cloud's platform-as-a-service offering. It features pay-per-use pricing and support for a broad array of programming languages.	$0.05 Per Hour Per Instance
Netlify Platform	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Netlify is a platform for developers from the company of the same name in San Francisco, used to build performant and dynamic web sites, e-commerce stores and applications. By uniting an ecosystem of technologies, services and APIs into one workflow.	$0

Pricing

Google App Engine

Netlify Platform

Editions & Modules

Starting Price: $0.05
Per Hour Per Instance
Max Price: $0.30
Per Hour Per Instance

Starter: $0
Pro: $19
per month per user
Business: $99
per month per user
Enterprise: Custom Quote

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Google App Engine	Netlify Platform
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Google App Engine	Netlify Platform
Considered Both Products	Google App Engine Verified User Anonymous Chose Google App Engine For our organization, we selected Google App Engine which provides a reliable and efficient way to create and deploy apps moreover it supports a lot of languages and provides automatic debugging of code which enables us to deploy code to production as soon as development is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google App Engine If you have a small team which is also responsible for development of the product then surely go for it. And if you have a larger team with dedicated person to take care of deployments. Go for cheaper options such as compute engine or AWS (be sure to do your research on pricing … Incentivized Helpful? Rudolph Pereira Team Lead Chose Google App Engine We prefer Google App Engine over Linode when need to hosting applications for R&D and Testing. Since the deployment has much less configuration. Incentivized Helpful? Manjeet Singh Senior Manager - Engineering Chose Google App Engine It's the manageability of the Google App Engine which made it a better option in our case. It's quite straightforward to deploy on App-Engine. No worries for monitoring setup Incentivized Helpful? Kadu Barral SRE Chose Google App Engine You can create and scale Kubernetes clusters quickly, but you have to keep an eye on that cluster. In-App Engine, you don't have to worry about infrastructure, but in some scenarios, Kubernetes fits better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google App Engine Google App Engine is the first product we picked up to store the mass data. Later we came to know that, firebase database is also similar to Google App Engine. But still, we didn't step into it. We will try it later. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google App Engine Azure App Service is in par with Google App Engine although you may want to use Azure App Service if you are integrating with other Microsoft IT components, for example SQL Server. Google App Engine is great when in long run, you will be using Google cloud components, for … Incentivized Helpful? Tristan Dobbs Vice President of Shared Services Chose Google App Engine App Engine is a much more streamlined system than EC2. There is a fundamental difference between them, but they are used for basically the same thing as far a I could tell -- to serve applications EC2 is certainly more complicated, but if offers more machine-level control if … Incentivized Helpful? Darshan YS Senior Computer Vision Scientist Chose Google App Engine Google App Engine is very easy to use and mostly up to date makes it compatible with all old and new devices. The applications are very interactive and the prices are accessible for most users. The prices tend to get slightly expensive as we head on towards higher … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google App Engine The two giants are Google and Amazon. Both are very similar however Google App Engine allows you to deploy your web applications through platforms like Python where as if you're using AWS, you have full control on the operating system services. Google is good because you pay as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google App Engine We were on another much smaller cloud provider and decided to make the switch for several reasons - stability, breadth of services, and security. In reviewing options, GCP provided the best mixtures of meeting our needs while also balancing the overall cost of the service as … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering Chose Google App Engine We commonly decide between App Service, Elastic Beanstalk, and App Engine. Normally, we do not have a strong preference for the services, it really comes down to whether or not there are other factors drawing us toward a particular platform. In the case of App Engine, it is a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google App Engine I think that Microsoft and Amazon are simply investing more in their offerings, and there are a bunch of cool PaaS solutions out there as well. Google App Engine is solid, and is probably the right choice for some projects. But ultimately one should evaluate each platform … Incentivized Helpful? Robert Christian Director of Platform Architecture and Chief Architect, Liaison ALLOY Chose Google App Engine Azure - too Windows. Do not want IIS or Windows OS. AWS - too much configuration for the tasks at hand. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google App Engine Google Apps is great for environments where the need for a more robust platform is not necessary if you are looking to have email and cloud collaboration enablement of your working staff. From the stand point of using both, I can see the value of both but it really depends on … Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Longren Web Developer Chose Google App Engine I can't really say much here as I've not used deis.io on any actual projects. Incentivized Helpful? Jonah Dempcy Web & Mobile Developer Chose Google App Engine AWS and Heroku are both great, and I use them both extensively for different projects. Google App Engine was chosen because it is much more innovative than AWS, and because Heroku specializes in Ruby on Rails. Even though Heroku supports Java and other services, we feel Google … Incentivized Helpful? Andre Masson Product Design/Development Engineer Chose Google App Engine With GAE it's a matter of "code your app and deploy it". You don't care on what servers or on how many servers it runs. System administration is done for you. With AWS you still have to be a system administrator with good knowledge and undestanding of load balancers, database … Incentivized Helpful? Dmitry Sadovnychyi Software Engineer Chose Google App Engine You can spawn up your own cluster using Kubernetes or Container Engine which will scale automatically when configured properly, but you have to keep an eye on that cluster. In App Engine you don't have to worry about it at all, just ship your code and it will run. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google App Engine We chose Google App Engine because it supplies the most infrastructure per dollar spent. It's much more expensive to use Amazon EC2 to scale to over a million users. Also, the engine's narrow language support system, while somewhat limiting, makes getting started quickly much … Incentivized Helpful? Zachary Yaro Developer Chose Google App Engine Heroku allows for more flexibility, but GAE gives you more APIs and features by default, whereas Heroku might require you to implement them yourself. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google App Engine Amazon Web Services Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google App Engine No management of operating system Cheaper Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google App Engine We left Lotus Notes for the (more versatile) Google Apps. We could never recommend the closed architecture of Lotus Notes. We have evaluated Office 365 and believe the product is compelling. So compelling, that we may consider a platform change… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google App Engine Google App Engine stands out since it offers everything as being a platform as a service. The other options I used before, such as classical development with servers available either in house or in the cloud still require a lot of management and the software frameworks … Incentivized Helpful?	Netlify Platform Verified User Anonymous Chose Netlify Platform Vercel is not accessible in China, but Netlify is. That was a huge selling point for our specific product. Additionally, while Vercel can do preview deployments, the way they want you to set up aliases is a bit of a hassle compared to Netlify. Pricing is pretty good as well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Netlify Platform Personally, I found Netlify Platform to be significantly more user friendly than Cloudflare for hosting and deployment purposes. The UX was a big improvement over Cloudflare although the performance is generally comparable, if not slightly worse. Incentivized Helpful? DP Dushyant Pathak Software Engineer Chose Netlify Platform Heroku provides backend server capabilities, meaning its configuration is slightly more complex and involved than Netlify Platform. Netlify Platform trades off ease off deployment for limited hosting capabilities Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Netlify Platform To me, Netlify is the gold standard for static web hosting, but each alternative has specific situations where it might fit better. If building a Next.js site, then Vercel is the easiest solution for hosting. For Jekyll, GitHub Pages might make more sense. Other than that, I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Netlify Platform Netlify Platform is the first choice that we are using in this organization continuously and it's been a very promising platform to use. It also maintains the things very well. it also giving a very good updates. It is very easy to use and very easy to learn. overall it is good. Incentivized Helpful? Lankit Patel AWS Developer \| Laravel Developer Chose Netlify Platform pantheon is WebOps oriented platform. it can basically be described as a super-set of Netlify Platform. it has incorporated many aspects of web development and efficiently brings them under a single umbrella. to do so also requires a similar level of effort and economic value. … Incentivized Helpful? Ankush Jain Cloud Consultant Chose Netlify Platform Netlify is best for static websites (JAM stack websites) hosting. It supports continuous integration and continuous deployment out of the box which is not there in Firebase or Heroku. It uses CDN, which optimizes images, videos, and documents on the fly. In short, Netlify is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Netlify Platform Heroku Platform and GoDaddy Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Netlify Platform Netlify really streamlines the process of getting the latest builds out to QA or automated testing, as well as allowing developers to see their code being deployed to an environment where it can be used. Free Netlify domain with deployment in the free plan Easy to setup pipeline … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Google App Engine

Netlify Platform

Platform-as-a-Service

Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	Google App Engine 8.7 Ratings 9% above category average	Netlify Platform - Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Scalability	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform management overhead	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform access control	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Development environment creation	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Development environment replication	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Issue recovery	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Google App Engine	Netlify Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.7 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.4 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Google App Engine	Netlify Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	Google App Engine is especially well suited for situations where there is a variable workload during the day, e.g. inbound task processing with task queues. In this situation queues can be setup with parameters governing the process speed/scaling which allows you to easily balance performance with cost and meet a good balance. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Any frontend hosting solution is just great. It's also available for users in China to access. I don't know if this will be a permanent fixture as it's more dependent on China, but our project requires access from China, and Vercel is not accessible there. Netlify is hugely CI-friendly, so I would also recommend it to anyone with a solid CI/CD workflow. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Building an application that uses Google's Authentication, means users no longer need to remember an different user id and password. Once they are logged into to Google, they can seamlessly access your application hosted on Google App Engine. Google App Engine automatically scales up and down. SO if your application receives a spike in user traffic, App Engine automatically launches additional instances of your application to cater for the increased traffic. Once App Engine detects that the spike is usage is over, it automatically scales down to handle the current traffic. Google App Engine can be easily integrated with Google Cloud SQL, Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage etc, so that you can build out a full application using one or more of Google's Cloud Platform products. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Hosting multiple websites and having multiple projects Updating the site by directly connecting to Github repository as new code is pushed Temporary deployment to show preview on GitHub pull requests Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	For beginners, there is a learning curve that can be reduced by decluttering the functionalities. For much big migrations it takes to a lot of time to deploy which can be reduced. The scaling of applications based on the user count is not seamless and it requires improvement. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	it is not aimed at it but first party laravel support would be nice. their free tier was so handy, i wish they start some similar efforts incorporate more WebOps mindset Incentivized Lankit Patel AWS Developer \| Laravel Developer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	App Engine is a solid choice for deployments to Google Cloud Platform that do not want to move entirely to a Kubernetes-based container architecture using a different Google product. For rapid prototyping of new applications and fairly straightforward web application deployments, we'll continue to leverage the capabilities that App Engine affords us. Incentivized Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Google App Engine is very intuitive. It has the common programming language most would use. Google is a dependable name and I have not had issues with their servers being down....ever. You can safely use their service and store your data on their servers without worrying about downtime or loss of data. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Netlify is extremely user friendly while having several notable features including, but not limited to: - Managing deploys - Form integration - Domain management - Use of plugins From a user standpoint, they have made it incredibly easy to manage and review our websites deployment processes while incorporating the above optional features Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Good amount of documentation available for Google App Engine and in general there is large developer community around Google App Engine and other products it interacts with. Lastly, Google support is great in general. No issues so far with them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	App Engine is a much more streamlined system than EC2. There is a fundamental difference between them, but they are used for basically the same thing as far a I could tell -- to serve applications EC2 is certainly more complicated, but if offers more machine-level control if that's what you need. It can tend to cost more as well. App Engine is far more straightforward but there are limitations if you need to change the environment. But even then, Google Compute Engine also compares to EC2 and stays within GCP. Incentivized Tristan Dobbs Vice President of Shared Services Read full review	To me, Netlify is the gold standard for static web hosting, but each alternative has specific situations where it might fit better. If building a Next.js site, then Vercel is the easiest solution for hosting. For Jekyll, GitHub Pages might make more sense. Other than that, I would turn to Netlify as my first choice for any static site hosting. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	App Engine can scale basically infinitely so our users can always expect fast responsiveness. App Engine has saved us money by only using the resources we need when we need them. The security and IAM policies surrounding App Engine have saved a lot of head aches. Incentivized Cameron Gable Software Engineer III Read full review	Netlify Platform has reduced our cost of additional server capabilities for PoC projects Netlify Platform has simplified CI CD pipelines for small standalone applications, thereby improving developer productivity Junior developers mainly working on Netlify Platform are often unable to get a low level understanding of server configuration, which is a drawback Incentivized DP Dushyant Pathak Software Engineer Read full review
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