# Portainer CE Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about Portainer CE Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Application Development products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/209305/Portainer-CE --- # Portainer CE Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on January 11, 2026 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. Independent research methodology Capterra’s researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. While we may earn a referral fee when you visit a provider through our links or speak to an advisor, this has no influence on our research or methodology. 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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Portainer CE ## What is Portainer CE? Portainer is a centralized container management platform for containerized apps. It helps accelerate container adoption and reduce time-to-value on Kubernetes, Docker/Swarm, and Nomad with a management portal, allowing users to deliver and manage containerized applications from the data center to the edge. ## What is Portainer CE used for? [Application Development](https://www.capterra.com/application-development-software/) Overall rating Based on 17 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Contact vendor for pricing Free trial not available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for Portainer CE?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=https://www.portainer.io/&name=Portainer CE) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### Portainer CE 4.6 (17) VS. [### SAP NetWeaver](https://www.capterra.com/p/65750/SAP-NetWeaver/) [4.5 (54)](https://www.capterra.com/p/65750/SAP-NetWeaver/reviews/) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price Contact vendor Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.7 (17) Ease Of Use 3.9 (54) Value For Money 5.0 (10) Value For Money 4.3 (38) Customer Service 4.3 (6) Customer Service 4.5 (41) ## Portainer CE alternatives [Django](https://www.capterra.com/p/234557/Django/) [4.6 (18)](https://www.capterra.com/p/234557/Django/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 94% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/234557/Django/) Highest Rated [Cloudflare Workers](https://www.capterra.com/p/234126/Cloudflare-Workers/) [5.0 (4)](https://www.capterra.com/p/234126/Cloudflare-Workers/#reviews) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/234126/Cloudflare-Workers/) [Ansible Tower](https://www.capterra.com/p/149875/Ansible-Tower/) [4.5 (47)](https://www.capterra.com/p/149875/Ansible-Tower/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 96% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/149875/Ansible-Tower/) [Aspose.Total](https://www.capterra.com/p/154165/Aspose-Total/) [4.4 (25)](https://www.capterra.com/p/154165/Aspose-Total/reviews/) Starting price $999.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 92% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/154165/Aspose-Total/) [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/209305/Portainer-CE/alternatives/) ## Pricing Value for money 5.0 (10) Free Version Basic $0.00 Value for money 5.0 (10) 5.0 Based on 10 reviews ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.3 (6) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.3 (6) 4.3 Based on 6 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.6 Based on 17 reviews Filter by rating 5(10) 4(7) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent AU Anonymous User Software Engineer Government Administration ### "The essential GUI for managing Docker environments and Stacks" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 January 6, 2026 A lightweight web solution was required to handle the management of our own development servers running internally in-house solutions. One such platform that caught my attention was Portainer, which is way easier to set up than Rancher for simple Docker Standalone or Swarm environments, giving immediate visibility into the health of your containers for your entire team. Pros Portainer has made the management of the container so easy that even without knowing all the commands in Docker, it has been an absolute pleasure to use. I find the Stacks functionality extremely useful, allowing us to deploy docker-compose files right through the GUI. And the graphical representation of the Volumes, Networks is outstanding. Cons RBAC or granularity for multi-user teams is a little limited in the Community Edition compared to the Business Edition. Sometimes the logs viewer in the browser is a bit laggy with very verbose containers, and the UI does not always auto-refresh instantly when a container status changes externally via CLI. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. GM Gustavo M. QA Program Development ### "Avaliação Portainer" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 August 16, 2023 Pros Muito simples de ser usado, dificilmente tem alguma instabilidade ou queda, o layout é simples e direto sem enrolação. Cons Pelo tempo que e forma que uso não tenho nenhum contra. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Dimpi R. CA Accounting ### " Docker Management Made Easy with Portainer." 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 March 22, 2023 Pros user-friendly interface, Portainer has a wide variety of features for image management, container management, network management, etc Cons Limited to DOcker only, Does not support non-docker environment Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Krunal A. Web developer Information Technology and Services ### "Beginner friendly for Docker" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 February 18, 2023 I think overall about portainer is it is a tool that makes it easy to use docker images maintain and make easy to make it also very easy, no need to code in CLI again and again, it has all features that CLI provides with GUI means graphically also it is very good so definitely suggested to use it Pros We are using docker for a long time and we face too many issues in setup our docker file and maintaining the file, after using portainer we are very connected with docker also and portainer is given us more comfortable while using docker images and maintaining it, this is a very good option in the deployment of our software and etc. So this is all about Portainer Cons i do not face any issue till now, it is very easy to use and has excellent processing also make your work easy Switched from [Docker](https://www.capterra.com/p/148132/Docker/) Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. DR Devraj R. Backend Developer Information Technology and Services ### ""Streamlining Docker Management with Portainer"" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 February 17, 2023 Pros Portainer makes work easy with with User-friendly interface and Multi-platform support. Mkaing and managing container and Docker is just childs play with Portainer Cons I don't dislike anything about Portainer Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. MS Matthias S. IT Transportation/Trucking/Railroad ### "Containermanagement made easy via a nice GUI" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 February 13, 2023 Installation:Installing Portainer was very simple, we just pulled the image from Docker Hub and were up and running in minutes.Day-to-day usage:We configure and deploy containers via Portainer and also monitor them this way. We have also added a private registry of Docker images that we use to quickly deploy our most commonly used containers. Pros Portainers graphical user interface is modern and intuitive, making it very easy to get used to. The resource monitoring for containers is also quite useful.Portainer comes with a registry of commonly used containers, which makes using it almost feel like a sort of app-store for containers.Editing dockerfiles and configuring containers via the web-interface is a lot nicer than doing so via the command-line. Cons Since Portainer lists all Docker containers (including itself), I accidentally blew up my first Portainer installation when I changed some setting on it without thinking about it. I am aware that this is user error but a small warning when messing with the Portainer container would be nice. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Backend engineer Information Technology and Services ### "Best to manage my conationers." 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 February 8, 2023 Overall experience with the Portainer is great because it has made me more productive and with the help of Portainer, I can easily and quickly deploy containerize applications so it's best for me. Pros Portainer is the best way for me to manage my docker containers because I always hate to work with the terminal that's why I love Portainer because it provides good UI to work with docker containers so it's easy to use. Cons I honestly do not dislike anything about Portainer. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Backend developer Information Technology and Services ### "Made working with docker much easy " 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 February 3, 2023 The overall experience of portainer is very good and positive. Pros It is helping in managing docker deploys.We don't need to use terminal anymore.Its simple and easy to use.It is free to use at some rate. Cons It prevents user from understanding docker which can cause problems in troubleshooting. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Harsh P. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services ### "Best cloud management platform" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 January 24, 2023 My overall experience with Portainer is very good. I usually use Portainer for docker management It makes container deployment and image management so much easier and I don't even have to write commands for deployment Portainer gives a great User interface which makes my job a lot easier. Pros Portainer is one of the best multi-cloud management platforms it has great UI as well as it makes cloud management and deployment so much easies. Cons There is nothing that I dislike about Portainer. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. VA Victor A. Técnico Government Administration ### "Genial gestor de contenedores" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 January 9, 2023 Pros La facilidad de gestionar contenedores, clusters de k8, clusters de docker swarm, etc, de lo mejor que hay para una gestión "doméstica" o para principiantes Cons No encuentro ninguna pega a este software en su versión gratuira, no se le puede pedir mas con todo lo que ya hace. 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