CSI Cloud vs Sunways Portal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CSI Cloud
Monitor your Canadian Solar plant's performance remotely. Access real-time and historical data on energy production, revenue, and device status. Stay informed about your solar assets from anywhere.
- Real-time data access
- Historical data analysis
- Production energy tracking
- Revenue monitoring
- Device status checks
- Remote network access
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This is the software of client part for surveillance system for Canadian Solar plants, which enables obtain running parameters (production energy, production revenue, device status and etc,) from Canadian Solar Data Center. Furthermore, customers can check real-time data and historical data via remote network.
Sunways Portal
This app offers real-time data analysis and system fault alarms for system owners and installers. It provides comprehensive monitoring and reports, ensuring stable system operation with minimal downtime, even remotely.
- Real-time data analysis
- System fault alarms
- Comprehensive reports
- Remote monitoring
- Stable system operation
- Minimal downtime
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Sunways has developed a user-friendly and informative monitoring app for System Owners and Installers (Sunways Portal). This app provides accurate & comprehensive real-time data analysis with system fault alarms and reports, delivered straight to the user – even remotely. This ensures reliable and stable system operation with minimal downtime, giving users peace of mind at all times.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sunways Portal at 3.8 against CSI Cloud's 1.3. CSI Cloud's advantage is review sentiment (14% vs 0%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sunways Portal holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 14% of CSI Cloud's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sunways Portal's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CSI Cloud ships an update every 2 months, Sunways Portal every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CSI Cloud | Sunways Portal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (3 ratings) | 3.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Canadian Solar Inc. | Ningbo Sunways Technologies Co.,Ltd. |
Customer experience
CSI Cloud
Sunways Portal
In-app purchases
CSI Cloud
No in-app purchases
Sunways Portal
No in-app purchases
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