The true cost of legacy platforms like Acquia

Your websites should perform at peak capacity whether it’s planned campaigns or unexpected surges. Acquia’s Cloud Next infrastructure sticks your sites on a shared Kubernetes cluster with fixed capacity. Pantheon isolates all workloads and allows them to scale on demand.

Multidev delivers cloud environments for every branch, allowing parallel workstreams to move at their own pace. Environments on Acquia require a support ticket (or sometimes a purchase order), blocking dev work, accepting testing, and forcing teams to shuffle to get releases out.

Pantheon uniquely supports Drupal at large scale, allowing many sites to share a common codebase without the risks of a monolithic instance. Acquia’s Site Factory forces customers to deploy anything to every site all at once, increasing risk, reducing velocity, and smothering innovation.

Pantheon supports WordPress and now NextJS in addition to Drupal, enabling the full value of open source and future-proofing diverse web portfolios. Acquia is pivoting Drupal from DXP to SaaS with Acquia Source, a proprietary fork of Drupal that blocks customers from leveraging community contributed

Pantheon is known for its responsive, world-class support that solves issues quickly without trying to upsell additional services. Acquia’s support reputation has faltered, with reports of delayed responses and upsell-focused interactions.

Customers with annual contracts on Pantheon never see a surprise “overage” invoice, and our model is based on unique visitors to align with your success. Acquia meters individual pageviews, including those from search crawlers and AI agents, meaning next month's bill could be anyone’s guess.