Backstage vs Bunnyshell
Backstage
backstage.io
Bunnyshell
bunnyshell.comSide by side
| Figure | Backstage | Bunnyshell |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $0.01/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · Internal Developer Portals | 8.6 (#2) | 8.4 (#5) |
| Spec score · Platform Engineering Software | 8.6 (#5) | 8.5 (#7) |
| Intended users | Backstage is aimed at organizations whose product and engineering teams need a shared developer portal and software ecosystem catalog. | Bunnyshell describes its customers as engineering teams, including developers, engineering leaders, and platform teams. |
| Product | Backstage is an open-source framework for building developer portals. | Bunnyshell is an ephemeral environments platform that creates production-like environments for pull requests. |
Plans
Bunnyshell
- Startup$0.01 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
- ScaleupPriced on request
In their own words
Backstage
Backstage is a free, open-source framework for building and deploying developer portals. Its software catalog records ownership and metadata for services, websites, libraries and data pipelines, for teams managing a small set of services or company catalogs of thousands. Software Templates can fill code skeletons with variables and publish generated projects to destinations such as GitHub or GitLab. TechDocs keeps documentation in a docs-like-code workflow close to code. Integrations can read or publish data through GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, LDAP and cloud providers. Teams can extend a portal with existing open-source plugins or build their own; Backstage Search can index sources such as TechDocs, Confluence and Stack Overflow. Its Kubernetes feature aggregates a service’s deployments through the Kubernetes API. Backstage is self-hosted. The standalone installation guide creates a local demo with an in-memory SQLite database and says this setup is not production-ready. It lists minimum requirements of 20 GB disk and 6 GB memory, with more disk needed as modules and plugins are added. Its threat model describes only rudimentary denial-of-service protection and recommends a protected deployment environment.
Bunnyshell
Bunnyshell has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.