--- title: Parse Reviews meta\_title: 'Parse Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 42 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Parse works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.7 review\_count: 42 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Mobile Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-development --- # Parse Reviews & Product Details Just focus on creating amazing user experiences and forget about complex infrastructure. Use Parse in your app and easily add a powerful cloud database, versatile push notification services, analytics tracking, and more. * * * Seller [Parse](https://www.g2.com/sellers/parse) Discussions [Parse Community](https://www.g2.com/products/parse/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Return on Investment 9 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/parse/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![AWS Amplify](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "AWS Amplify") AWS Amplify 4.2/5(100) ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-amplify/reviews) [ ![Salesforce Heroku](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Salesforce Heroku") Salesforce Heroku 4.2/5(148) ](https://www.g2.com/products/salesforce-heroku/reviews) [ ![Azure Mobile Apps](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Mobile Apps") Azure Mobile Apps 4.3/5(21) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-mobile-apps/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/parse/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 42 real user reviews. Implementation Time 4 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Bjoern S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bjoern S.") BS Bjoern S. Founder Marketing and Advertising Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/19/2016 "Parse is being shut down in January 2017" 1/5 What do you like best about Parse? We really enjoyed the ability to build small middleware solutions with Parse. It came with everyhting you needed: User management, database, SSL hosting, different client SDKs. We're sad to see it go Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Parse? Parse was never production level reliable. We could only use it for scenarios that we'ren't business critical. I obviously also dislike Facebook's decision to shut it down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Parse: You shouldn't use it, as it's shutting down. There's no real way to become a new user of Parse. The current way would be to deploy Parse server on your own infrastructure, as it's been open-sourced. This also means that there are a few additional considerations here: 1) Does open source Parse server support all your use cases (i.e. there is no built-in job framework anymore). 2) what solution do you use to manage your Parse apps (Parse Dashboard has been open-sourced to, but is a separate prodcut). 3) Where do you want to host ist. Parse suggests a number of cloud based hosters, we're currently going with Heroku. We've also tried running on Digital Ocean and think about trying to run on Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you? We could deploy custom software solutions at a much faster time to market. It was particularly useful to write custom middlewares that would move data based on webhooks from one system to another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism") GL Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/20/2016 "Technical debt that wasn't worth the tradeoff" 0/5 What do you like best about Parse? User session management is one of the few things I don't loathe about Parse. Their docs are pretty well thought out as well. I didn't take place in the full implementation, but apparently you can get up and running rather quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Parse? Most everything. Insanely long response times for most queries. We're talking at LEAST 1000ms for a single record query, even if searching by the objectId. The product is also being deprecated, so it was a forcing function of our migration off the platform. A lot of my dislike towards it might be misdirected from being a fan of SQL over a mongodb. It's quite costly for the amount of downtime we also experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Parse: Don't waste the time and effort. It's being deprecated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you? We were solving the need of quickly spinning up an API/backend server as a service. It made getting off the ground relatively quick but cost us a lot in technical debt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Joseph P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Joseph P.") JP Joseph P. Software Engineer Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/14/2016 "It's a shame it's being shut down." 0/5 What do you like best about Parse? Their developer documentation was fantastic for their api & sdk's. There's also been a vibrant community available on their answer site and other locations, such as irc. I think they're fantastic for giving their customers such a long notice period of their shutdown, together with proactively aiding migrations away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Parse? They're shutting down! It's a massive pity as there's nobody else that quite satisfies their full offering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Parse: Don't ignore their shutdown warnings. It's time to migrate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you? The biggest benefit we gained from them was easy push notifications, especially their geospatial capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated 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 Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/29/2016 "Parse" 0/5 What do you like best about Parse? Easy integration and good documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Parse? The vendor connection is now shutting down, which is sure to cause a lot of trouble just before we were about to release! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Parse: Do not use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you? Quick prototyping Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Parse? 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. [ Ask about Parse ](https://www.g2.com/products/parse/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is Parse used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-parse-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/parse/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Return on Investment 9 months ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/parse/pricing) Parse Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_3a7a925cc43d97814fa81ec2d6c06f45/aws-amplify.jpeg "Product Avatar Image") AWS Amplify 4.2/5(100) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/aws-amplify-vs-parse) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_ca5b12c0b3d631268933aabb7637b305/rethinkdb.png "Product Avatar Image") RethinkDB 4.3/5(15) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/parse-vs-rethinkdb) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_0864c27fe20b07ec3ed3d780e010ea02/laravel.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Laravel 4.7/5(159) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/laravel-vs-parse) ## Work at Parse? 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