--- title: Particle Reviews meta_title: 'Particle Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 195 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Particle works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 195 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: IoT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-management --- # Particle Reviews **Vendor:** Particle **Category:** [IoT Development Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-development-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 195 ## About Particle Particle is the leading edge-to-cloud infrastructure for the Internet of Things, helping thousands of companies power world-class connected machines, sensors, and devices. Particle provides everything you need to build an IoT product in one tightly-integrated platform, so you can focus your time and energy on what matters: your product, application, data, and customers. Hundreds of manufacturers, thousands of startups, and 260,000 developers use Particle to power their IoT products; to learn more, visit particle.io. ## Particle Reviews ### 1. Particle is a best in class IoT platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremy L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Particle?** The hardware and software is reliable and adaptable for a number of IoT applications. It is fast to deploy in prototypes and robust and fully featured for deployment in demanding applications. Their team is invested in the success of devices built with their solution and the support is fast and well informed. It is our go-to platform for all things IoT. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The pricepoint of the platform is not well suited to consumer products. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Particle solves the problem of connecting anything, anywhere, and quickly. Their platform allows us to focus on the application of technology without having to worry about the technology stack itself. For example, I can build a device that focuses on the sensors, actuators, and logic I need to do the job without having to worry about building out bespoke hardware and frameworks for each application. Their tools allow reliable and fast connectivity and their built in OTA for all of their products has saved our company a lot of time and potential headaches. They continue to improve their tools and hardware every year and make sure developers like us are well-equipped to build what we need. I never have to worry about the Particle system just working straight out of the box. ### 2. Good for prototyping and quick product deployments **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Particle?** - If you are starting from scratch, Particle hands down provides the fastest way to design, develop and deploy a product. We deployed and released our first product with Particle within 12 months of starting development. This included full certification and a manufacturing line. - Particle cloud services and dashboards are the real add-on value here. Dashboards provide quick ways to deploy FOTA, monitor your fleet, SIM card integration for cellular devices etc... are crucial to managing an IoT fleet. - Great documentation & support for developers. This is important for any platform and is seriously underrated. - Platform is mature and easy to use. Minimal learning curve. - Hardware is fully certified and tested (i.e., FCC etc...) **What do you dislike about Particle?** - Dashboard is great but lacks features such as fleet health notifications, breakdown of API calls per device or fleet and other tools to debug failures - Particle being a platform, has depreciated all their Gen3 products just three years after releasing them, making the initial hardware no longer available. This is terrible from a consumer standpoint as engineering time, development efforts, and certification costs will have to be done for new hardware - Depreciation of significant features such as mesh. One of the key features Particle had was the ability to mesh devices together. This separated their system from other competitors. Unfortunately, this feature was also depreciated. - Pricey, scaling up large fleets of IoT devices eventually become very pricey with Particle, if you have no need for their cellular integration and only require Wi-Fi devices. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Particle is essentially a Platform As A Service (PaaS); this is exactly what we needed to start building and get to market ASAP without worrying about the basic foundation of developing, managing an IoT fleet and manufacturing our own hardware/devices. ### 3. Particle Boron LTE **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guillermo V. | Internet of Things Research Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Really well designed and made, with great community support, but really terrible customer service **What do you dislike about Particle?** Particle doesn't even bother to follow up with open tickets . Really terrible customer service **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Asset tracking as well as enviromemtal and biomedical ### 4. Developer focused IoT platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marc L. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Particle?** The ability to build apps without dealing with the infrastructure **What do you dislike about Particle?** Developer language is too low level and firmware updates are not separate from apps. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distributed IoT apps to scan for asset beacons, so we can focus on the business value ### 5. A good product for IoT enthusiast **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emil T. | Junior product developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Particle?** The software interface is nice and valuable. Good community for clearing doubts **What do you dislike about Particle?** Sometimes there is lag in the connectivity **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Water leak detection and it helps in connecting the hardware with the software ### 6. Ideal for testing purposes **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Commercial Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** Quick setup and thriving and active community. Documentation is good and helps you write good code. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The prices when scaling up. 4G and Simcard options are very pricy leading us very quickly to move away from particle and choosing our own hardware now that we are scaling up. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Pricing for scaling up is the reason for our company to move away from the particle. So working on that aspect might have kept us on board, but as discussed earlier with the account managers this is not Particle's main focus and thus we agree that choosing our own path is the better option for us to do. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Test mesh networking capabilities. Yes, but deprecated Manage OTA and end to end security. Yes ### 7. IoT solution for fast applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** The platform is very complete for the different types of applications you may be designing, managing the product by monitoring their status is very handy, you can watch the status of the smart items even with your phone app. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The need to stay connected to the cloud, you can not manage easily while the system you design with the particle devices is working offline, I would like to have the same easy managing system when working offline. **Recommendations to others considering Particle:** Try the services and products, it is a good start if you are new into IoT. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looking to elevate our efficiency on the production floor, currently, building data to evaluate the availability of the manufacturing infrastructure is the business goal. ### 8. Particle for peace of mind **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron H. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** We switched our sensor interface board’s logic/communication chip over from using Particle to a competitor’s micropython based boards. After we did, we had nothing but problems - from hardware failures to cellular connectivity issues to kernel panics. We were constantly trying to engineer new hardware and software approaches to mitigate all of the new and exciting ways that that board would find to crash. We finally got sick of it and switched back to Particle Boron and our stability has increased tremendously. I used to wake up every morning and check out backend metrics dashboard to find out which devices had stopped reporting. Now that we are back with Particle and have swapped out the last of our devices, I haven’t had to do this in weeks. They just work like they are supposed to. **What do you dislike about Particle?** The only thing I dislike (and the reason we moved away from Particle to begin with) is being forced to use AT&T in the United Stares for data on the Boron devices. We just didn’t have coverage in a lot of our area, but fortunately the coverage has improved in recent months. Having a Verizon option (the ublox chip can support it and is already an approved Verizon module, Particle just doesn’t submit the IMEI numbers to Verizon) would be amazing. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are building completely off grid sensor interface boards for real time data collection and monitoring, specifically for ground water monitoring of things like wells, flumes, and springs. Most of these sites are in the middle of the wilderness and Particle makes it possible for us to monitor these sites without sending a person down to pull metrics from a data logger once a month. This lets us make business decisions around this data much faster. ### 9. IoT for Hobbyist to Commercial **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill W. | Partner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Particle?** I switched to Particle because of the built-in connectivity. I am a novice at microcontrollers, so anything I can do to simplify the process is well worth it. When I received my first wi-fi Particle (a Photon), and again later when I bought my first cellular unit (an Electron), I was overwhelmed at how quickly the claim and communicate process worked. Following through with Variables, Functions, Publish, and Subscribe makes the process of exposing the Particle and controlling it extraordinarily simple. Add OTA flashing and, well, what’s not to like? **What do you dislike about Particle?** I struggle a little with getting definitive information about specific functions. The Reference documents and Tutorials are okay, and the Community certainly helps, but I’d really like to be able to dig into a comprehensive reference document that provides accurate and complete information about how certain functions and models operate. **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** I’m developing a service for business owners which allows me to remotely control a part of their facility. The businesses for which I’ve piloted my service have been very enthusiastic about it. Having a cellular interface means that I don’t have to rely on the business for any part of the connectivity. In an earlier version, I was relying on the owners’ wi-fi, which led to a number of “failures” that I eventually traced to changes they’d made to their own wi-fi. ### 10. Particle Dev Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Particle?** - Thorough Documentation - Timely bug/outage reports - Helpful community forum with engaged Particle devs **What do you dislike about Particle?** Lack of code testing integration/documentation **What problems is Particle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Remote connectivity management OTA updates and OS level security updates ## Particle Discussions - [We are about to scale up the number of devices in service. What pitfalls should we avoid?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36940-we-are-about-to-scale-up-the-number-of-devices-in-service-what-pitfalls-should-we-avoid) - 1 comment, 2 upvotes - [Hi , I have currently started to do projects using Photon .At present I am looking for job in IT sector . Can you help me through it.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36862-hi-i-have-currently-started-to-do-projects-using-photon-at-present-i-am-looking-for-job-in-it-sector-can-you-help-me-through-it) - 1 comment, 2 upvotes - [I was thinking, except of using two Photons, using a RasPi in combination with an Electron(?) in my furniture.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/37015-i-was-thinking-except-of-using-two-photons-using-a-raspi-in-combination-with-an-electron-in-my-furniture) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How to reduce lagging?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36924-how-to-reduce-lagging) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Can we please have LoRA support....no seriously CAN WE PLEASE HAVE LORA SUPPORT](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36859-can-we-please-have-lora-support-no-seriously-can-we-please-have-lora-support) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Particle pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/particle/reviews/particle-review-4572116?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-12+16%3A52%3A20+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a9f86283-b796-4679-93ed-950357f5dbe5&secure%5Btoken%5D=b583148db84d8df837edeb1d861d88dc997007c897a41f4bd34fba81d8e21732&format=llm_user) ## Particle Features **Functionality** - Ease of Use - File Management - Multi-Language Support - Customization - Straight-Out-the-Box Functionality - Help Guides - Patching & Updates ** Application Design** - Interface - Templates - Device Workflows - Testing - Hardware Support - Application Deployment **Systems Management** - Device Discovery - System Integration - Remote Access - Workflows - Hardware - Dashboard **Functionality** - Platform - Multi-Language Support - Performance - Help Guides - Ease of Use - Patches & Updates - Integrations **Development and Deployment - Edge AI Platforms** - Integration - Edge Optimization - Framework and Language Support ** Application Control** - Data Migration - Data Syncronization - Data Security - Integrations - Lifecycle Management - Analytics **IoT Capabilities** - Process Automation - Security - Safety - Environmental Conditions - Resource Optimization - Product Quality - Predictive Maintenance - Analytics **Management - Edge AI Platforms** - Device Scalability - Security and Compliance - Real-Time Monitoring **Agentic AI - Industrial IoT** - Proactive Assistance ## Top Particle Alternatives - [Blynk IoT platform](https://www.g2.com/products/blynk-iot-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (28 reviews) - [Visual Studio](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,822 reviews) - [Eclipse](https://www.g2.com/products/eclipse/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (3,093 reviews)