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Apollo vs Clever Cloud: What are the differences?

Apollo: GraphQL server for Express, Connect, Hapi, Koa and more. Build a universal GraphQL API on top of your existing REST APIs, so you can ship new application features fast without waiting on backend changes; Clever Cloud: Deploy and run apps with bulletproof infrastructure, automatic scaling, and fair pricing. Clever Cloud is a polyglot cloud application platform. The service helps developers to build applications with many languages and services, with auto-scaling features and a true pay-as-you-go pricing model.

Apollo and Clever Cloud can be categorized as "Platform as a Service" tools.

"From the creators of Meteor" is the top reason why over 8 developers like Apollo, while over 146 developers mention "Quick & easy setup" as the leading cause for choosing Clever Cloud.

Apollo is an open source tool with 7.53K GitHub stars and 935 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apollo's open source repository on GitHub.

CircleCI, Impraise, and Swat.io are some of the popular companies that use Apollo, whereas Clever Cloud is used by Scala.IO, Spendabit, and Rude Baguette. Apollo has a broader approval, being mentioned in 131 company stacks & 127 developers stacks; compared to Clever Cloud, which is listed in 21 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

Decisions about Apollo and Clever Cloud
Márton Danóczy

We wanted to save as much time as possible when writing our back-end, therefore Apollo was out of the question, we went for an auto-generated API instead. Hasura looked good in the beginning, but we wanted to retain the ability to add a few manual resolvers and modifications to auto-generated ones, which ruled out Hasura. Postgraphile with its Plug-In architecture was the right choice for us, we never regretted it!

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Pros of Apollo
Pros of Clever Cloud
  • 12
    From the creators of Meteor
  • 8
    Great documentation
  • 3
    Open source
  • 2
    Real time if use subscription
  • 147
    Quick & easy setup
  • 104
    Amazing support
  • 87
    Ultra fast answer to any question
  • 82
    Github integration
  • 74
    Time saver
  • 66
    Fast apps
  • 62
    Cool admin interface
  • 51
    Postgresql as a service
  • 43
    Receive email from the ceo when one of my process crash
  • 33
    Easy deployment of playframework
  • 20
    Autoscale nodejs processes
  • 19
    Easy nodejs deployment
  • 16
    Don't need devops in our team
  • 15
    Great service
  • 12
    Elegant and convenient paas and great support
  • 11
    Easy mongodb backup
  • 11
    Great customer support
  • 10
    Easiest scala / playframework setup i have seen
  • 9
    Really great and usefull product with an amazing team
  • 8
    Awesome docker support
  • 8
    Quick & easy to start to use
  • 7
    Git push and it's prodded
  • 7
    Up & running with Node in minutes
  • 6
    Deploy with docker
  • 6
    Easy setup with great customer support
  • 5
    Superficial support team
  • 5
    Amazing experience - after using heroku, nodejitsu, etc
  • 4
    Really safe,quick and responsive! probably best one
  • 4
    Customer support is awesome
  • 3
    More than efficient scaler
  • 3
    Clean interface
  • 3
    My devs like it which means I like it! Great support
  • 3
    KISS principle
  • 2
    Easy setup, CTO and team influencers
  • 2
    Easy setup and deploy for play framework and scala
  • 2
    Amazing Gif Generator
  • 2
    No-brainer, efficient, never gets in the way
  • 2
    Great docker support, just via web + git
  • 2
    They are a pleasure to work with
  • 2
    Awesome support and easy to use..! using laravel (php)
  • 2
    Haskell support without worries
  • 2
    Easy deployment
  • 2
    Top notch support by developer peers
  • 2
    No code integration needed
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    Auto redeploy after git push
  • 1
    Manage ops parts for me
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    They accept bitcoin
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    Ffmpeg available for nodejs servers
  • 1
    Simple to use, brilliant team, super reliable
  • 1
    Reported bugs are fixed during the following hour
  • 1
    Online postgresql admin gui
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    Too much powered servers and add-ons
  • 1
    Fast deployment time

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Cons of Apollo
Cons of Clever Cloud
  • 1
    File upload is not supported
  • 1
    Increase in complexity of implementing (subscription)
  • 2
    Super expensive
  • 1
    Not a whole lot of flexibility

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What is Apollo?

Build a universal GraphQL API on top of your existing REST APIs, so you can ship new application features fast without waiting on backend changes.

What is Clever Cloud?

Clever Cloud is a polyglot cloud application platform. The service helps developers to build applications with many languages and services, with auto-scaling features and a true pay-as-you-go pricing model.

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