Pylon is one of the most popular solar design platforms in Australia, and unlike most competitors it was built here specifically for the Australian market. This review looks at what Pylon does well, where its limits are, and who it suits, written fairly, because Pylon is a genuinely strong tool and a close competitor to ours.
What is Pylon?
Pylon (also branded GetPylon) is an Australian-built cloud platform for solar design, proposals and CRM. Founded in 2016 and based in New South Wales, it is used by thousands of solar businesses and is consistently ranked among the top tools for Australian residential installers. Its pitch is speed: go from a customer address to a complete, signed-ready proposal in under two minutes.
What Pylon does well
- Fast proposals. The under-two-minutes claim is well supported by users; proposal speed is Pylon's most praised feature.
- Pay-per-project pricing. No monthly fees and no contracts, with unlimited users, you pay a low per-project fee instead. That suits variable workloads well.
- Hi-res imagery included. High-resolution aerial imagery is built in, which many competitors charge extra for.
- Award-winning 3D shading. Pylon's shading analysis on its flat 2D design surface is accurate and notably easy to use, including on tablets.
- Australian-built. Like Solar Proof, it understands the local market, interval data, load profiles and the realities of quoting here.
- SLDs included. Pylon generates single-line diagrams for solar and battery projects, which is a real strength.
Where Pylon has limits
No tool fits everyone. The areas users most often raise:
- Proposal template range. Pylon's template choice is relatively limited, which teams wanting highly brand-specific or complex multi-system layouts can outgrow.
- Commercial and EPC depth. Pylon is purpose-built for residential. For larger commercial work and projects beyond around 100 kW, its electrical-engineering depth is thinner than enterprise tools.
- Occasional integration friction. Some users note imagery-integration quirks depending on their setup.
Pylon vs Solar Proof
These two are close. Both are Australian, both use low per-project pricing, and both cover design, shading, interval data, proposals, SLDs and CRM. If you are a residential installer who values Pylon's design studio and shading workflow, it is an excellent choice and we will happily say so. Where installers tend to look at Solar Proof instead is proposal flexibility (our AI Template Builder generates a branded template from your website, rather than choosing from a small set) and commercial and multi-inverter depth. For the full picture, see our Solar Proof vs Pylon comparison.
The bottom line
Pylon is a fast, polished, genuinely Australian solar design tool, and for many residential installers it is all they need. Its main limits are proposal template range and commercial depth. If those matter to your work, it is worth comparing against an alternative; if not, Pylon is hard to fault.
