--- title: Red Hat Runtimes Reviews meta\_title: 'Red Hat Runtimes Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 64 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Red Hat Runtimes works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 64 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Containerization url: https://www.g2.com/categories/containerization --- # Red Hat Runtimes Reviews & Product Details Red Hat Runtimes is a collection of cloud-native runtimes for developing Java™ or JavaScript applications on OpenShift. It provides portability across multiple cloud infrastructures, allowing the developer to use microservices, containers, and DevOps automation. * * * Seller [Red Hat](https://www.g2.com/sellers/red-hat) Discussions [Red Hat Runtimes Community](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-runtimes/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-runtimes/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Apache Karaf](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Apache Karaf") Apache Karaf 4.2/5(24) ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-karaf/reviews) [ ![IBM Storage Ceph](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM Storage Ceph") IBM Storage Ceph 4.1/5(22) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-storage-ceph/reviews) [ ![containerd](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "containerd") containerd 4.7/5(11) ](https://www.g2.com/products/containerd/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-runtimes/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 64 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Prabhjot S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Prabhjot S.") PS Prabhjot S. Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/29/2021 "Best UI,Flexible,Feature Rich" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Runtimes? I like the features ,smooth UI and orchestration. Easy to deploy and automate software development processes. Secure platform Simple and handy to use for working on microservices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Runtimes? License fee and associated costs can be expensive Lack of training resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Runtimes solving and how is that benefiting you? High availability Fault tolerance Less Downtime Check and debug issues at backend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Vipul K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vipul K.") VK Vipul K. Java Application Developer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/19/2021 "Free and Open Source JDK" 4/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Runtimes? It is open source and light weight so we can easily download and use it. As we know Oracle JDK is now licenced for commercial use, Redhat Open JDK can be used for JDK 11 free of cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Runtimes? There is very frequent releases of this JDK which is uncomfortable for me to install the updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Runtimes: Consider when you are not in a position to install Oracle JDK due to licence issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Runtimes solving and how is that benefiting you? I use it for my professional as well as personal development in technologies like Spring Boot, Hibernate. 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") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/8/2021 "Open Source IDE: alternative for enterprises" 5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Runtimes? I liked some thing that I am highlighting here: -It supports in windows and linux both operating system -It is absolutely free and most importantly open source. -Functionality, Add -On installation and mission control are major thing which helped for managing, troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Runtimes? I think I have positive con about it as it requires time to understand this open source IDE for its functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Runtimes solving and how is that benefiting you? I have accessed data stored in other locations. I have made a run on complex modelling program.I am doing troubleshooting, manging and monitoring using this IDE. It helped me to stabilize our organization.and also in technology development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") UC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/30/2021 "Openshift Review" 5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Runtimes? Very good UI and handy monitoring tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Runtimes? Has some bugs. Documentation is inadequate. Not easy to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Runtimes solving and how is that benefiting you? Managing our containerized applications. Has made it easy for us to manage our applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Meenakshi S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Meenakshi S.") MS Meenakshi S. Senior HR Executive Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/7/2021 "one of my best experience" 5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Runtimes? i like how it handles cloud environments and the security of the platform is added advantage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Runtimes? when you use it in the initial days, documentations and tutorial videos are not sufficient and need some refinements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Runtimes solving and how is that benefiting you? i am a coder in java and python, so this platform is suitable for me to deploy programming and manage my applications. 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") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/14/2022 "Red Hat Review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Runtimes? It is free. It is bug-free and can be a very useful tool as the support team is very responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Runtimes? We have to wait for it to be up to date sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Runtimes solving and how is that benefiting you? We can do Java development without paying huge fees. Good for development purposes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Dhiraj P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dhiraj P.") DP Dhiraj P. Full Stack Developer Intern || Learner Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/4/2021 "feature rich and capable container" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Runtimes? i like there multi level connection with cloud to native apps and can take changes on all levels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Runtimes? yet to find something.everything works smooth right now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Runtimes solving and how is that benefiting you? they have many functionas and features right from the biggining and have many advantages on cloud and native apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SP Samir P. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/4/2020 "Red Hat OpenJDK helped my institute to stabilize and in creating own Java runtime images." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Runtimes? Building and run images locally is the best part of which I like most. Also, we can deploy it easily. Functionality provided by Red Hat OpenJDK is awesome and no more outside add-on installation is required for me. Also Mission Control helped me in java applications for monitoring, troubleshooting and managing it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Runtimes? Red Hat OpenJDK is more than my expectation. So I have nothing to dislike. Very good effort and work is made by them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Runtimes: I would highly recommend Red Hat OpenJDK to others. It is easy to use and also file management using this is very easy. You can also customize it as per your needs. It also supports multiple languages which will be very useful and the documentation/help guides which are being provided are just awesome. You will get each and every minute detailed which you are looking for. Also, there are so many functionalities provided inbuilt you don't need to add it from outside. Mission control provided by it which help you in managing, monitoring and troubleshooting java application. Also Red Hat OpenJDK is automatically updating for product improvement and to keep it pace with programming language evolution, which also make you in the same line with others. At last I would say if you want to build a Java application, then you should install Red Hat OpenJDK. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Runtimes solving and how is that benefiting you? As I have told earlier Red Hat OpenJDK helped my institute to stabilize. It also helped in building images and we use to run them locally. I have also been managing, monitoring and troubleshooting java application using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Amr S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amr S.") AS Amr S. Solution architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/7/2021 "impressive for cloud native apps" 5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Runtimes? orchestration friendly for any cloud or traditional on-prem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Runtimes? lack of training resources limited to RHEL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Runtimes: Go cloud and use redhat openshift Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Runtimes solving and how is that benefiting you? Problems solved are High availability and implementing fault tolerance since i used Kubernetes, i can say yes openshift is fit for business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Subodh K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Subodh K.") SK Subodh K. Lead QA Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/30/2020 "Impactful Red Hat Openshift Containerize Application Solution" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Runtimes? Red Hat OpenShift having best feature of containerize technology in current market which provides penalty of good features like built-in monitoring, Ease of use in small, medium and enterprise type of applications, security level and easy to manage. It gives us platform to deploy and automate your development process. It has one click deployment support which reduce effort to deploy application. It has continuous integration and release management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Runtimes? There is very few corns for rat hat openshift application, - Difficult to find the failure using logs i.e. Log management - Limited support of application - Application monitoring support like Appdynamics - Hard to troubleshooting of my application(May be i'm new to openshift application) - Need improvement of documentation for each feature of rat hat openshift application - Very limited support of free account - License part should be pretty high compare to other application solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Runtimes: Recommendation before go to production deployment, - Current deployment process - Pricing & budget - Usability of within different teams - Integration with your 3rd party vendor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Runtimes solving and how is that benefiting you? Openshift is a provide good choice for small, medium and enterprise level application and easy to learn how to distribute web applications in the cloud. Auto scaling of application when load is increased and decreased it works very well. Security and networking is very prominent and impressive.Integration with GIT was by default with openshift application and that makes us cloning the repo and making changes was straight forward. Easy to take snapshot of application. Rat hat openshift application provides good set of templates to start and deploy your application without making deep knowledge of openshift, you need to just follow the instruction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/5/2021 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-runtimes/pricing) ## Work at Red Hat? 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