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Acquia vs. Pantheon: Why Pantheon is the superior choice for innovative teams
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Let's break it down by feature
Pantheon helps web teams accelerate innovation, drive higher performance, and maintain exceptional security while reducing operational headaches. While Acquia offers certain features, Pantheon goes beyond by delivering the agility, scalability, and comprehensive support that modern web teams need to thrive.
| Feature | Pantheon | ACQUIA |
|---|---|---|
| CMS Support | Supports multiple CMS platforms, including Drupal and WordPress | Only works with Drupal |
| Multisite Support | Offers flexible multisite governance with custom upstreams for site management and flexible, site-specific governance across multiple sites | Acquia Site Factory supports multisite, but has significant shortcomings with cookie-cutter sites |
| DXP approacH | Integration-agnostic platform focusing on flexibility and agility | A monolithic DXP solution that can be complex and time-consuming to implement |
| Integration with partners | Focuses on integration with best-of-breed solutions without vendor lock-in | Has a large ecosystem of technology partners, but lacks integration at the platform level |
| WebOps methodology | Offers innovative WebOps methodology that accelerates development and updates | Traditional approach may feel outdated and clunky for agile web teams |
| Customer success | Focused on customer success, with high-profile customers like WHO and Nestlé | Offers Acquia Academy for training but is known for subpar support and high costs |
| Platform flexibility | Allows for open integration and innovation, enabling freedom of choice | Locks customers into its product ecosystem, making it harder to leave |
Why choose Pantheon over Acquia?
Containerized Architecture
Agile Development
Lightning-Fast Content Delivery
Drupal & WordPress Support
Superior Support
Join the many teams switching from Acquia to Pantheon
Pantheon is the preferred platform for teams of all sizes, ranging from enterprise-level institutions to small, agile teams, who are looking to escape from Acquia's limitations.
We’ve always got that trust and faith that the website will remain steady on Pantheon. I liken it to an IT department: When it’s working well, nobody praises it, but when it breaks, all hell breaks loose. And Pantheon just always works.
Ian Norton, VP Demand Generation and Digital
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We felt that Acquia’s Site Factory was going in the direction of almost WordPress-like solutions that didn’t fit our developer-centric process. We needed more help with our day-to-day code management and solutions.
Jeremy Pieper, Web Development Manager at Perforce
Multidev really helps us to refine the types of updates we are doing. We work in sprints so having those Multidev spaces for QA testing is fantastic, and we can avoid making mistakes before we push to production.”
David Myers, Web Services Director at USF
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