--- title: Google App Engine Reviews meta_title: 'Google App Engine Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 216 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Google App Engine works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 216 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Google App Engine Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-platform-as-a-service-paas) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 216 ## About Google App Engine Build monolithic server-side rendered websites. App Engine supports popular development languages with a range of developer tools. New customers get $300 in free credits to spend on App Engine. All customers get 28 instances in standard environment free per day, not charged against your credits. ## Google App Engine Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Google App Engine, enjoying seamless access to information and collaboration. (9 reviews) - Users value the **15 GB free cloud space** provided by Google App Engine, enhancing data management and accessibility. (7 reviews) - Users appreciate the **security features** of Google App Engine, enhancing their data management and overall experience. (5 reviews) - Users praise the **excellent customer support** of Google App Engine, highlighting its responsiveness and helpfulness. (3 reviews) - Users value the **management ease** of Google App Engine, praising its organization and efficient handling of various tasks. (3 reviews) - Scalability (3 reviews) - Features (2 reviews) - Flexibility (2 reviews) - Global Access (2 reviews) - Integration Capabilities (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Google App Engine **expensive** due to high service costs and unfavorable currency exchanges for international users. (4 reviews) - Users often find **customer support inadequate** , facing delays and challenges in navigating Google App Engine's complexities. (4 reviews) - Users find the **complexity** in learning and using advanced services like Anthos and AI/ML tools frustrating. (2 reviews) - Users find Google's pricing structure **complex** , making it challenging to navigate costs across various services. (2 reviews) - Users express concerns about **high costs** associated with Google App Engine, complicating budget management and planning. (2 reviews) - Poor Documentation (2 reviews) - Difficult Navigation (1 reviews) - Limited Features (1 reviews) - Limited Server Locations (1 reviews) - Security Issues (1 reviews) ## Google App Engine Reviews ### 1. App Engine Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Himanshu S. | Programmer Analyst (Digital Cadre) - Cloud Engineer , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** This service is a reliable, scalable, and a very good platform for developing and deploying web applications. It allows us to write code and the managing part is taken by the GCP's infrastructure. The customer support at GCP is very good as they deeply investigate and provide us with good resolutions. It has so many good features such as scalibiluy and better infrastructure maintnance. Its easy to integrate App Engine with other products such as SQL etc. The frequency of App engine I use is around once a week. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I feel that It is not good for high CPU intensive apps. we also experience performance problems and also this service a bit expensive for high traffic load. The service sometimes throws error that are not very known to us. Although it can be implemented at a good level. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** App Engine is solving such the problem of physical infrastructure management at my end, as it takes care of all the task at the scalibility level such as provisioning the servers, and scaling applications. also it handles the the security level things. This helps me to focus on developing and deploying my applications. Its Scalability can automatically scale my applications up or down based on demand and its pay per use model is very good. It provides security features such as encryption. This helps to protect my applications from attack from the internet. ### 2. Most friendly cloud space **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Indrajit P. | Project Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The cloud storage they offer is useful for everyday work and individuals. Always there is a necessity of something to be stored or saved. And always Google's customer support on the top. Apart from storage it also provides other features as well. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Downsides - I haven't yet faced an issues **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps mainly in hosting purposes. Alos aids in development platform areas. ### 3. Really good cloud based service **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google cloud is the most simple system to use **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Not enough memory for storage and very expensive **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Really good platform for computing and storage purposes. ### 4. Go Google App Engine - Good Product **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Assures privacy and security of your accounts **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Expensive and Slow. It consumes a lot of time if you use any other browser **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Go for it. Best App free of maintenance and most secured **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** No server configuration is required, no server maintenance is needed. ### 5. GAE : the good the bad the ugly **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sankul G. | Systems Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The fact that it is very easy to understand for a person who is making his/her first step into cloud technology. Auto scalable and managed totally by Google is also a great feature for a small team or a prototype application. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** GAE ecosystem. Gae comes with its ecosystem and it's very easy to get attached to it. The ease of use of other services such as analytics and stack driver is great but it comes with a cost which can easily go way up. Then there are some versions of languages which are not supported. Gae can stop supporting certain version anytime and you have to keep up with their pace. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** If you have a small team which is also responsible for development of the product then surely go for it. And if you have a larger team with dedicated person to take care of deployments. Go for cheaper options such as compute engine **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Memes and social media goes hand in hand. Therefore developed a social media platform designed around memes which also provides a comprehensive and powerful tool to create memes from scratch, provide innovative ideas with templates and connect with memers around the world. ### 6. Not using currently, found difficult to use **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App engine was difficult to configure for me . I tried deploy my app but some issues arrived at each and every step and it was difficult to manage. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Configuration was difficult to manage and understand. Could not find relevant settings to apply and was unable to quickly deploy. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is managed services and that is best part if the configuration part becomes easy to understand then this would be best ### 7. Google app engine **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Easy to use with all applications that govern under the Google app engine **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Find to difficult the particular module of the apl **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** All finance and sales related applications ### 8. looks good **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** power is look so difficut.\\ an vvisal is aloso hard to disgn Need more information in your manual Function is so many We need more information about your function WE need more information about each functions\ Aoso debug function betweem it is easy to view your diagrams But each function is not **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** It not visible ABout your help is hard to understaning for our designer Nee more speed between S3 to S3 debug function is not easy **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need big space in our disk ### 9. Granddad Serverless Environment Still Worth a Look **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ian I. | Engineering Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App Engine has allowed our small team to execute at a way higher level than we could building and relying on our own infrastructure. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Older sandboxed environments exhibit the worst of vendor lock scenarios. Price gets quite high past a certain scale. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** IoT, REST APIs ### 10. GAE Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I love the semplicity to use and the beautiful UI compared to the competitor. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Prices are too high, and a lack of a free tier like Amazon EC2 **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Make it more accessible to startups by reducing cost and give a free tier with minimal spec machine **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Google App Engine we power our business APIs and our Website. ### 11. App engine seems to be in flux **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Relatively small stack with minimal devops. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** App engine is in flux, which means that I need to migrate a bunch of stuff (appengine apis are gone!). Also we've been relying on datastore for years so we have a lot of code in that appengine.ndb api for datastore, and it looks like that's changing. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Small apps for our R&D team that ingest data and provide some analysis. ### 12. Google App Engine review of multiple company usage **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google App Engine allows us to quickly spin up testing environments for our processes **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** The onboarding process is a bit clunky and makes it a bit difficult to figure out the first time, **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Serverless opportunities and stepping off of bare metal wherever possible ### 13. Good for quick start up time on a new webapp **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The management of servers so we don't have to is the primary reason we use App Engine. The ease of set up means you can launch a new webapp from scratch fairly quickly without the overhead of needing to understand anything about servers and setting up scaling groups. It also handles spikes in traffics for you which a big plus if you may have irregular traffic from sources. It's also linked to db/datastore services that are decent and easy to set up and link. The free quota is also great for testing an idea website without needing to spend much, if at all. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Google seems to have abandoned this project at some point but left it alive to dwindle on meaning, the any issues and bugs you find won't get fixed. Support help for it is minimal and not very helpful. Documentation is old and lacking. Costs can also add up if you start getting more and more traffic particularly with reads and writes. When the servers go down, which they do, there's nothing you can do but wait because it's all handled by App Engine. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** There are newer technologies out there that you might want to research and explore with better support and features. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Google App Engine as the main host for our e-commerce website. It's great for handling the server up times and auto scaling. ### 14. Feedbak **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Ease of use and the speed that it make to develop the applications. So getting the much required time to market. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** No issue found as it is ease of use and the speed that it make to develop the applications. So getting the much required time to market. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster time to develop. ### 15. Marketing and Sales Professional **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melanie C. | Sales Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2017 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** * First of all, Google's * Stability and Scaling * No Head Ache or person required to monitor site even on Heavy traffic. * Speed and Suggestions * Dashboards and renovated designs * Multitasking and Memcache * Documentation **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** * Datastore Query and Log System * Sudden downtime and Task Queue Failures. * Tickets raising & resolve - very slow and so many questions before checking details what we shared already. * More Library and jars. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** * E-Commerce * Giant E-Shop Site with Huge number of valuable customers * Low Price with huge services * GAE - Ease our business and genuinely helping us ### 16. I used the software three years back and hence there google might have fixed some of the issues **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Seamless integration with the google cloud. For simple programs, it was quite easy to create a database and integrate it with the application. Another thing that impressed me was the increase in performance and the scaling. If you have little knowledge about Platform Of Service and how google bigtables work, we can optimize the application to utilize the full power of google architecture **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I understand that since the database are cached, its hard to do join operations and delete operations. The new way of thinking is interesting and quite powerful. But if you want to move an existing software to google app engine and if you have a relational database, it was not straight forward to move to Google Big Tables. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** If you are newly developing an app, you can try app engine, but still I would recommend to try EC2 with MEAN stack or something if feasible. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was trying to host an existing platform as a service on top of google as goole lacks a powerful application creation tool to create business application. We had issues with porting out database ### 17. I have used App Engine for demos and proof of concepts **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I having to spend hours managing hardware or having to manage OS updates. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Feel somewhat limited with languages available. In the python library adding third party modules could be easier. The lack of a good workflow on how to handle secure credentials inside of app engine is the biggest show stopper for production use. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** A better documented workflow on handling credentials in App engine is needed. This is also a problem with Docker. Being able to use a VPN tunnel to access resources in our existing data center would also be a big win. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick placed to step and run a app without a lot of overhead managing a server ### 18. Powerful but need to reduce pricing **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wireless | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** GAE works for all cloud applications esp the ones that are data-led. It gives you a sense of peace knowing that GAE will sale up or down based on demand. Applications don't crash. I don't want to worry about load balancers and redundancy - GAE will handle everything and I pay for the resources I use. Also love that I can run python and Cassandra without any issue. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Setting up billing is a little not straight forward - there is no 1 master account.. It does not seem to save billing information to your account so you can re-use the same information across different projects. Each project requires you to re-enter all your billing information. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Offer better support Offer better pricing admin tool - 1 master account **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Processing log files in near-real time. Data is stored in Cassandra. GAE takes care of the nodes and replication of data. Pricing depends on resources used. ### 19. Built several GAE applications over the years. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Package/Freight Delivery | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The ability to use Java and Python out of the box. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I disliked the sandboxed versions of Java that preventing me from using the full language or libraries I had long utilized. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** If you must use Google, then use Compute Engine. App Engine is just too limited if you intend to live outside the Google ecosystem. Applications today need to be environment agnostic. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** My first GAE application was trying to enable customers to get a daily stream of data. I had originally architected my solution to run on Tomcat, and I changed the architecture to run on GAE. ### 20. Google App Engine **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveed H. | Big Data (Hadoop) Team Manager & Tech. Lead - UK&I Region, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Following are the Pros: 1. Ease of Deployment 2. Ease of Management and Administration 3. Ease of Monitoring 4. Scalability Out of The Box 5. 95% uptime 6. Decent Documentation and support **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** 1. Vendor Locking 2. Lesser support for the full stack JavaEE 3. No external tooling support 4. fewer ways of ETL integration 5. sparse eco-system of projects requires custom development for most of the components as per every need mostly for which other platforms have much richer support **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Please provide more detailed implementation of full blown Java EE stack. And also provide support for other NoSQL stores out of the box. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was Event Management CMS. and Cloud based auto-scaled environment were realized ### 21. Appengine **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sebastian C. | Senior Software Engineer, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I can use Java with different farmeworks **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** the data persistanse its too bad if you are used to relational dbs **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** dont let the servers decide what tecnology to use... **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** at this point, just a pyton revert proxy ### 22. Good online ORM with somewhat steep learning curve **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Very easy (and free) to setup, VERY easy to deploy new projects. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Lack of documentation, I know they expect everyone to be a genious, but for the rest it's almost impossible to find any decent tutorials. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solved a problem of having a good, reliable cloud ORM. ## Google App Engine Discussions - [why it does not provide full-text search API](https://www.g2.com/discussions/33508-why-it-does-not-provide-full-text-search-api) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Google App Engine pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-app-engine/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-10+12%3A50%3A30+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=4de19a08-459f-44d8-8997-6728a844c1d9&secure%5Btoken%5D=15aec5a405eb6e4f31ccbf5f0cb0b159c3d488d8df8a9c46170fc5c9706e7d6e&format=llm_user) ## Google App Engine Integrations - [Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-identity-aware-proxy/reviews) ## Google App Engine Features **Development** - Application Deployment - Custom Development - Development Environment - Multiple Programming Languages Supported - Integrated Development Environment - Collaboration Tools - Social Media Integration - Agile Methodologies - Software Development **Database** - Analytics - Backup / Recovery - Storage - Project Management - Email Management - Design Management - Lifecycle Management - Deployment Management - Workflow Management - Application Management - Purchase Order Management - HR Management - User Management **Infrastructure** - Networking - Virtual Machines - Security - Activity Tracking **Additional Functionality** - Access Controls/Permissions - Customizable Forms - Monitoring - Customizable Templates - Cloud Computing - Generative AI - Version Control - Customizable Reports - Approval Process Control - Real-Time Reporting - Web Forms - Inventory Tracking - ERP integration - CRM - Customizable Fields - Data Connectors - Third-Party Integrations - Active Directory Integration - Graphical User Interface - Real-Time Data - For Developers - Reporting & Statistics - Single Sign On - Mobile Access - Accounting Integration - Drag & Drop - AI Copilot - API - Configurable Workflow - Activity Dashboard - Projections ## Top Google App Engine Alternatives - [AWS Lambda](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lambda/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (935 reviews) - [Salesforce Headless 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform)](https://www.g2.com/products/agentforce-360-platform-formerly-salesforce-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,771 reviews) - [AWS Elastic Beanstalk](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-elastic-beanstalk/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (178 reviews)