G2 Vendor Directory

Google Cloud Run vs. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricGoogle Cloud Run

by Google

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

by Google

Overall rating4.64.5
Review count243260
Ease of use9.38.7
Ease of setup9.38.6
Quality of support9.18.4
Meets requirements9.39.1
NPS75.64102666.203704
Small Business37.7%23.2%
Mid-Market39.0%28.6%
Enterprise23.3%48.3%
Total page views471288
Total LLM citations25,590966

Google Cloud Run

Cloud Run is a fully-managed compute platform that lets you run your code in a container directly on top of Google's scalable infrastructure. Cloud Run is deisgned to make developers more productive—letting you focus on writing code in your favorite language, not managing infrastrucure.

Pros

  • Easy Deployment
  • Auto-scaling
  • Scaling
  • Ease of Use
  • Integrations
  • Auto-Scaling

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

A scalable and automated Kubernetes service. GKE is a simple way to automatically deploy, scale, and manage Kubernetes.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • Integrations
  • Setup Ease
  • Deployment Ease
  • Scalability