The Best 54 OpenStack Alternatives

  • QEMU icon

    QEMU

    QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Proxmox Virtual Environment

    Proxmox Virtual Environment is an easy to use Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines.

    Freemium

  • Xen

    Xen.org, home of the Xen hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • VMware vSphere Hypervisor

    VMware vSphere Hypervisor ( based on ESXi ) is a free bare-metal hypervisor that virtualizes servers so you can consolidate your applications on less hardware.

    Commercial Windows Linux

  • Microsoft Azure

    Microsoft Azure and SQL Azure enable you to build, host and scale applications in Microsoft datacenters.

    Commercial Android Android Tablet Web

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

    Commercial Windows Linux Web

  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server

    Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2 is a stand-alone product that provides a reliable and optimized virtualization solution enabling organizations to improve server utilization and reduce costs.

    Commercial Windows Linux

  • CoreOS

    CoreOS is a new Linux distribution that has been rearchitected to provide features needed to run modern infrastructure stacks.

    Free Linux

  • Virtkick

    Virtkick is a Software as a Service VPS control panel and your company’s storefront.

    Commercial Linux Web

  • Sadeem

    Sadeem SaaS Cloud Hosting Platform, to sell cloud on your servers with self-serivce portal.

    Commercial Linux Web KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)

  • Google Compute Engine

    Google Compute Engine is not just fast. It’s Google fast. In fact, it’s a class of fast that enables new service architectures entirely..

    Commercial Web

  • OpenVZ

    OpenVZ is container-based virtualization for Linux.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • CloudVPS

    CloudVPS is the number one cloud provider in the Netherlands.

    Commercial Web

  • CloudStack

    Apache's CloudStack is a Project backed by Citrix and designed to be a direct competitor to OpenStack.

    Free Open Source Linux Web

  • SmartOS

    SmartOS is a hypervisor lean enough to run entirely in memory, powerful enough to run as much as you want to throw at it. Provisioning is blindingly fast, thanks to zones and ZFS file system creation.

    Commercial Self-Hosted

  • V2 Cloud

    V2 Cloud lets you rent virtual desktops online in minutes.

    Commercial Windows

  • CoreCluster

    CoreCluster is modular cloud computing platform dedicated for creating private IaaS clouds.

    Free Open Source Linux Web