- 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...) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.