Calico vs. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Calico | Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| Review count | 42 | 260 |
| Ease of use | 8.7 | 8.7 |
| Ease of setup | 8.7 | 8.6 |
| Quality of support | 9.3 | 8.4 |
| Meets requirements | 9.4 | 9.1 |
| NPS | 59.52381 | 66.203704 |
| Small Business | 28.6% | 23.2% |
| Mid-Market | 35.7% | 28.6% |
| Enterprise | 35.7% | 48.3% |
| Total page views | 348 | 288 |
| Total LLM citations | 1,115 | 966 |
Calico
The Calico platform, built on the most trusted open-source technologies in Kubernetes — Calico Open Source, Istio, Envoy, and eBPF — provides a single management plane for secure networking and observability for AI workloads. It can be deployed as Calico Cloud, a fully-managed SaaS platform, or Calico Enterprise, a self-managed platform. Calico works with popular managed Kubernetes services such as AKS, EKS, and GKE, as well as self-managed Kubernetes distributions including Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE/Rancher, VMware Tanzu, and Mirantis.
- Ease of Use
- Security
- Customer Support
- Policy Management
- Features
- Visibility
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
A scalable and automated Kubernetes service. GKE is a simple way to automatically deploy, scale, and manage Kubernetes.
- Ease of Use
- Features
- Integrations
- Setup Ease
- Deployment Ease
- Scalability