Portainer vs. SUSE Rancher

Portainer

224 Reviews and Ratings

SUSE Rancher

33 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Portainer	Score9.6 out of 10	N/A	Portainer is a centralized container management platform for containerized apps and IoT device management. It helps accelerate container adoption and reduce time-to-value on Kubernetes, Docker, and Swarm with a management portal, allowing users to deliver and manage containerized applications from the data center to the edge. Portainer helps - Reduce the operational complexity associated with multi-cluster management Bridge the skills gap and facilitate feature…	$0
SUSE Rancher	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	Developed by Rancher Labs and now from SUSE, Rancher is open-source software that enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes at scale, on any infrastructure across the data center, cloud, branch offices, and the network edge. Rancher centrally manages Kubernetes clusters across the organization in order to ensure security and accelerate transformation. Rancher is also available hosted. Hosted Rancher is a fully managed Rancher control plane - presented as the fastest, most cost…	$7,594.99 per year up to 500 nodes

Pricing

Portainer

SUSE Rancher

Portainer Business - 3 Nodes Free: $0
Home & Student: $149
per year
Starter: $995
per year
Professional: $2995
per year
Enterprise: Contact Sales for Pricing
per year

Subscription license: 7,594.99
per year up to 500 nodes
Standard Subscription: 11,234.99
per year 10 nodes
Priority Subscription: 30,514.99
per year 10 nodes
Management Server Priority Subscription: 41,830.99
per year 1 instance

Pricing Offerings
Portainer	SUSE Rancher
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Portainer	SUSE Rancher
Considered Both Products	Portainer Sathir M. Mansoor Software Engineer in Engineering at Self Employed (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Portainer I wrote that earlier, I tried Docker desktop so many bugs with WSL and not free and it get sign out every login time, Tried SUSE Rancher too complicated and good only for power users and whoever runs Kubernetes and very heavy. tried Dokage very simple and couldn’t do … Incentivized Helpful? Traian Antonescu Software Engineer in Engineering at Meta (Consumer Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Portainer Had already more experience using Portainer and it was covering all immediate needs where scalability was not a concern. Definitely easier to use and to get started for anyone. Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Spharler Network Engineer in Information Technology at SSW Advanced Technologies, Inc. (Consumer Goods, 501-1000 employees) Chose Portainer Portainer is, in my opinion, the most accessible and straight-forward means of entering the world of deploying and managing containers while also maintaining the ability to progress into advanced professional deployments and use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Portainer Initially looked into using Rancher for container management but it is aimed more at kubernetes deployments. I have used both at home and liked Portainer more, especially since we are using docker standalone. From Incentivized Helpful? Ahmed Elemam Technical consultant in Information Technology at Cisco (Computer Networking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Portainer First time deployment is far easier in Portainer Incentivized Helpful? Viktor Herman DevOps Engineer in Information Technology at Tria Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Portainer I am using Rancher in Kubernetes environments. It was really the first product I used with it and never really had time to test out how well Portainer behaves on Kubernetes. For the exact same thing - Docker Swarm management I used Swarmpit some time ago, but I like Portainer … Incentivized Helpful? Raji Smiley Solutions Architect in Information Technology at Focusweb (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Portainer Of course it has to be stacked against Rancher, and to be frank Rancher is great. Honestly the comparision is like comparing MacOS to Windows. Incentivized Helpful? Alexander Theis Network Engineer in Information Technology at Linde + Wiemann SE & Co. KG (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Portainer Portainer seems to be the best when you start with small environments and can grow with them. Portainer is also good for beginners with not too much knowledge about containers. Finally the start-up with 5 nodes for free was a great benefit. Incentivized Helpful? Mateus Bays Jr. Researcher of Software Development in Information Technology at Fundação CERTI (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 51-200 employees) Chose Portainer Portainer vs. Rancher: Portainer and Rancher are both popular container management platforms that support Docker and Kubernetes. However, Rancher provides more advanced features such as multi-cluster management and native support for Istio, a popular service mesh technology. … Incentivized Helpful? Patrice Ringenbach Ethical Hacker at Roche Diagnostics International AG (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees) Chose Portainer Portainer has made our rapid prototyping an easy task without requesting too much, especially while deploying micro-services on a self-deployed AMI instance. Above all, Portainer enables all configurations that we were expecting to be feasible, becoming the evident choice … Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Leon Weihrauch CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Professional Services at SHSN GmbH (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees) Chose Portainer Portainer is much easier to use and it's deployment is faster than other solutions which you can run locally or on-prem in a datacenter. Also Portainer is compatible with many different kinds of environments, where other solutions can only be used on some of the well-known cloud … Incentivized Helpful? Milos Kostic Java Division Lead in Engineering at Ingsoftware (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Portainer Benefits of Portainer compared to Rancher: Resource usage Complexity Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Portainer Portainer was just easier to use and set up. Having had extensive experience with the community edition, it was easy to opt for business. Incentivized Helpful? Probal Sil Managing Director in Sales at Elyzium Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Portainer Portainer is more intuitive than Rancher, therefore the time to value is greatly reduced. Rancher has some good features but nothing over and above Portainer. The rate of development in Portainer is far greater than in Rancher and further extendability will only widen this gap. … Incentivized Helpful?	SUSE No answer on this topic
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Portainer

SUSE Rancher

Comparison of Container Management features of Portainer and SUSE Rancher
Feature	Portainer 8.5 91 Ratings	SUSE Rancher 7.5 7 Ratings
Security and Isolation	8.787 Ratings	8.06 Ratings
Cluster Management	8.775 Ratings	7.47 Ratings
Storage Management	8.778 Ratings	6.76 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	7.881 Ratings	7.66 Ratings
Discovery Tools	9.069 Ratings	6.46 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	8.287 Ratings	8.07 Ratings
Container Orchestration	00 Ratings	8.77 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	00 Ratings	7.17 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	00 Ratings	7.86 Ratings

User Ratings
	Portainer	SUSE Rancher
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (91 ratings)	8.8 (17 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (3 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.3 (12 ratings)	8.0 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (3 ratings)	6.8 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	4.5 (1 ratings)