--- title: Canal Reviews meta\_title: 'Canal Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Canal works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.9 review\_count: 6 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2025-10-31' parent\_category: name: Containerization url: https://www.g2.com/categories/containerization --- # Canal Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Canal but has limited features. Are you part of the Canal team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Canal is a community-driven initiative that aims to allow users to easily deploy Calico and flannel networking together as a unified networking solution - combining Calico’s industry-leading network policy enforcement with the rich superset of Calico and flannel overlay and non-overlay network connectivity options. Canal represents the best-of-breed policy-based networking solution for cloud native applications, supporting any orchestrator that support the CNI network plugin API (including Kubernetes, Mesos, and others). * * * Seller [Canal](https://www.g2.com/sellers/canal) Discussions [Canal Community](https://www.g2.com/products/canal/discuss) Overview by Michael Stowe (Developer Relations at RingCentral) Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Canal. ### Tigera Essentials Contact Us ### Opensource $0.00 [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/canal/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![HAProxy](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "HAProxy") HAProxy 4.7/5(912) ](https://www.g2.com/products/haproxy/reviews) [ ![Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)") Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) 4.5/5(260) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-kubernetes-engine-gke/reviews) [ ![F5 NGINX](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "F5 NGINX") F5 NGINX 4.6/5(113) ](https://www.g2.com/products/f5-nginx/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/canal/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 6 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Sachin D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sachin D.") SD Sachin D. Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/23/2024 "Best platform for container networking- Canal" 4/5 What do you like best about Canal? Canal is very ease to use, Canal is very basic for new user to implement. it provides many tools for cloud networking, any new user also can operate canal this is the best thing which i love about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canal? Nothing much, but sometimes facing some server issues, taking very long time, hope this issue will be fixed by canal's team as soon as possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canal solving and how is that benefiting you? Best thing about canal is their supportive team, if we get any challenges while implementing, Canal team is always ready to help, they do very needful things for their costumers to integrating their projects. its very ease to use for new user as well. It provides many solutions in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Narendra A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Narendra A.") NA Narendra A. Information Technology Administrator Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/14/2024 "Smooth Container Networking with Canal" 5/5 What do you like best about Canal? Canal best of canal is its quite friendly interface and number of tools available to use within it. Need only a small interaction to understand it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canal? somwhere when we come to advance level of configuration It is kind of difficult to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canal solving and how is that benefiting you? Basic setup for a startup is quite easy in canal but when it comes to advance level so user need to be so accurate with this tool. As of now it's working very well without any interruption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite CG Chetan G. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/25/2024 "Good Networking Solution!" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Canal? The best part about canal is its User interface is very friendly, you will not need deep prior knowledge to use & implement it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canal? there are no great drawbacks of canal, but sometimes it takes more time to route the network from clusters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canal solving and how is that benefiting you? Canal provides the nice connectivity between the databases & resourse clusters. it helps to adapt the connectivity from various network environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Networking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Networking") UC Verified User in Computer Networking Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/15/2023 "Canal for Networking Solutions" 4/5 What do you like best about Canal? User friendly and additional features for cloud networking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canal? As of now, nothing dislikes about Canal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canal solving and how is that benefiting you? Canal solves the problem of analysing Networking errors arised during my project execution and helps me in tracking the informations frequently. It help the customer by its additional features on integrating projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Individual & Family Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Individual & Family Services") UI Verified User in Individual & Family Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/22/2018 "Canal Review" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Canal? My favorite thing about Canal is how user friendly it is, and how easy is it to pick up and understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canal? The only feature that I wish was different about Canal is how long it took for me to download and start using it, it was somewhat time consuming so I wish it was quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canal solving and how is that benefiting you? Canal made it very easy to analyze and track information, as well as delegate sections of projects to others. A benefit is making work more efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Games](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Games") UC Verified User in Computer Games Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/20/2018 "Helpful" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Canal? This program is helpful in many ways. It is easy to utilize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Canal? This program has its moments but ultimately works great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Canal solving and how is that benefiting you? I can utilize many aspects to get my job done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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