--- title: balena Reviews meta\_title: 'balena Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how balena works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.8 review\_count: 4 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2025-03-10' parent\_category: name: IoT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-management --- # balena Reviews & Product Details Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected Linux devices. * * * Seller [balena](https://www.g2.com/sellers/balena) Discussions [balena Community](https://www.g2.com/products/balena/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![SAP Business Technology Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SAP Business Technology Platform") SAP Business Technology Platform 4.4/5(421) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-business-technology-platform/reviews) [ ![Particle](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Particle") Particle 4.5/5(195) ](https://www.g2.com/products/particle/reviews) [ ![Userful Infinity Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Userful Infinity Platform") Userful Infinity Platform 4.4/5(169) ](https://www.g2.com/products/userful-infinity-platform/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/balena/competitors/alternatives) PJ Peter J. Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/3/2022 "Balena the best choice for IOT" 5/5 What do you like best about balena? Openbalena is one of the best open source software to manage connected IoT devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about balena? The balenaetcher is not always working with different devices. For some USB devices, it is not recognizing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering balena: Best choice if you are new to IOT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is balena solving and how is that benefiting you? Our team is mainly working on the IOT based automation projects. The platform is really user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") CC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/14/2022 "Very good experience while working with Balena" 5/5 What do you like best about balena? Everything is nice and the people working there are very good as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about balena? I dislike the fact that the resolution time sometimes to solve my issues is a little high for some products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is balena solving and how is that benefiting you? IoT Application Monitoring and Security Fixing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") UA Verified User in Automotive Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/3/2022 "Good experience" 5/5 What do you like best about balena? Good for connecting devices. Very helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about balena? No dislike, i really like the tools development that it provide Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is balena solving and how is that benefiting you? Balena is helped in cloud computing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sharon L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sharon L.") SL Sharon L. Hackathon Coach Internet Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/25/2018 "Useful tool for IoT developers" 4/5 What do you like best about balena? Resin.io has made it easier to manage OTAs and remote deployments and updates to IoT devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about balena? There isn't currently an easy way to set up a CLI for controlling the process of managing Resin.io, but I am satisfied with its degree of functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering balena: I'd recommend this to anyone who has used Mender or other IoT deployment softwares to try out and implement for testing purposes, at the very least. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is balena solving and how is that benefiting you? It's a lot faster to handle remote deployments of dozens of IoT devices at once, and it cuts so many costs in the pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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