--- title: AppScale Reviews meta\_title: 'AppScale Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 11 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AppScale works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 11 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # AppScale Reviews & Product Details AppScale (https://www.appscale.com) is an easy-to-manage serverless platform for building and running scalable web and mobile applications on any infrastructure. Build your app rapidly for multi cloud deployment. Why choose AppScale? Our platform combines the benefits of the serverless development model with the application portability to deploy anywhere. Public cloud platforms like AWS Lambda, Google App Engine, and Heroku make development easy but lock you into their cloud. Open source platforms like Cloud Foundry and OpenShift offer application portability with high-level APIs across multiple infrastructures but are not easy to operate. Platforms like Kubernetes and Nomad also provide application portability, but force developers to interact with the complications of lower-level, server-centric abstractions. Only AppScale delivers a platform where development, deployment, and operations are all made easy. * * * Seller [AppScale Systems](https://www.g2.com/sellers/appscale-systems) Discussions [AppScale Community](https://www.g2.com/products/appscale/discuss) Languages Supported English Overview by Eric Choi Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![AWS Lambda](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "AWS Lambda") AWS Lambda 4.6/5(1,051) ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lambda/reviews) [ ![Salesforce Headless 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Salesforce Headless 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform)") Salesforce Headless 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform) 4.5/5(3,994) ](https://www.g2.com/products/agentforce-360-platform-formerly-salesforce-platform/reviews) [ ![Kinsta](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kinsta") Kinsta 4.8/5(1,638) ](https://www.g2.com/products/kinsta/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/appscale/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 11 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Harsh P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Harsh P.") HP Harsh P. Associate technology L2 Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/7/2023 "Best open source PaaS tech stack" 4/5 What do you like best about AppScale? The best part about AppScale is it's set of features even after being open source like it's amazing UI, Data backups process, Multi node deployments, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AppScale? There is nothing much, Being an open source we sometimes don't get enough technical support if face any issues during the implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AppScale solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using this platform to deploy and managing our applications over Amazon EC2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Consumer Electronics](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Electronics") AC Verified User in Consumer Electronics Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/9/2018 "Using AppScale to enter the Chinese market." 4/5 What do you like best about AppScale? We were able to port our Google App Engine code over to AppScale with very few changes -- mostly related to non-GAE services, like GCP and BigQuery. We haven't had to write code against the lower levels of AppScale (below the App Engine-compatible SDK it provides). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AppScale? We have to do more system administration work to keep our instances running. This includes things like ensuring the instances where we've deployed AppScale have enough free memory and disk space. This isn't really a problem because of AppScale -- it's just something that GAE takes care of for us automatically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AppScale: If you have an existing solution deployed on the Google Cloud, AppScale will help you set up a clone of the service for users in China very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AppScale solving and how is that benefiting you? The main solution AppScale provides us is the ability to operate in China with minimal changes to our code base. We use the Datastore heavily in our backend services, and if AppScale didn't exist, we would've had to rewrite the database layer from scratch, and likely also some of the mobile application code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/20/2018 "Appscale is great but running it is a bit hard" 3.5/5 What do you like best about AppScale? Appscale can run Google App Engine applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AppScale? Appscale is hard to run even on docker it eats a lot of RAM even without much application. Appscale tools is hard to run with the AppscaleFile is is just a painful experience so we just use Fast-start but that is not for production, hopefully there's a production script to run Appscale smoothly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AppScale: I highly recommend using Appscale as it is the most mature and most actively developed Google App Engine implementation in the market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AppScale solving and how is that benefiting you? Run a Search Engine powered by Google App Engine and run with Appscale Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") IH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/30/2015 "A pretty good open source implementation of the Google App Engine" 4/5 What do you like best about AppScale? The ease to setup the entire environment. Basically, the ease to add machines to the server. The documents for setting up the system were terrific and the support system, that revolved mainly around Google Groups was fantastic. The fact that it was open source was an added bonus. It helped me learn a lot about the building process, and the hard-work that was put into building the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AppScale? While I was working on it, it was predominantly available only on Ubuntu Precise Pangolin. Hopefully, it is available to be implemented on a variety of other systems. Also, a few bugs were present when setting up the environment. Thankfully, the Google groups was very active, and they fixed it up and released a patch whenever a bug was reported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AppScale: Do try out this product. This is probably one of the best in the business for PaaS cloud technology. This being open source is another big advantage. It is on par with the Google App Engine performance-wise, and it should certainly get better with time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AppScale solving and how is that benefiting you? We were basically comparing the performance of the Google App Engine and AppScale by running the same transactions on both. AppScale promised the performance level equal to or better than the Google App Engine. We found out that AppScale, even though a little buggy, did indeed deliver the level of performance as promised. It was mostly on par with the Google App Engine's performance in this regard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about AppScale? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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