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Alternatives · 2026

The best Cloud Hypervisor alternatives

The rest of Best Hypervisor Software, in this site's order: each with what it costs, where it runs and its record score.

1
oVirt

oVirt is suited to organizations managing enterprise virtualization infrastructure with KVM and centralized storage.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+5 Free plan Record6.1 Visit
2
Proxmox VE

It may suit teams and administrators managing virtual machines, containers, and clustered servers.

AndroidWebWindows+3 €120 a year Record5.9 Visit
3
QEMU

QEMU suits users who need to emulate a complete machine or run processes built for a different CPU architecture.

WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record5.4 Visit
4
crosvm

crosvm suits developers and teams building or running Linux and Android guests in sandboxed virtual machines.

AndroidWindowsLinux+2 Free plan Record5.3 Visit
5
KVM

KVM suits Linux users who need to run multiple Linux or Windows virtual machines on supported x86 hardware.

LinuxAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record5.0 Visit
6
Multipass

Multipass may suit developers who want customized Linux environments or a local way to prototype cloud deployments.

WindowsMacLinux Free plan Record4.9 Visit
7
UTM

UTM may suit people who want to run other operating systems in virtual machines on a Mac or iOS device.

iPhone & iPadMac $9.99 one-time Record4.9 Visit
8
VMware Workstation Pro

It suits developers, IT professionals, students, and enthusiasts who want to run local virtual machines on a Windows or Linux host.

WindowsLinuxSelf-hosted Free plan Record4.7 Visit
9
Harvester

Harvester suits teams running VMs, Kubernetes-based workloads, or containers on bare metal, including edge deployments.

WebLinuxAPI+1 Free plan Record4.6 Visit
10 WindowsMacLinux+1 Free plan Record4.6 Visit
11
Firecracker

Firecracker suits developers and operators running container or function workloads on Linux hosts who need lightweight microVMs.

LinuxAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.5 Visit
12
GNOME Boxes

Boxes suits Linux desktop users who want to set up and manage local virtual machines.

Linux Free plan Record4.5 Visit
13
virt-manager

virt-manager suits Linux or OpenBSD users who want a desktop interface for managing KVM, Xen, or LXC virtual machines.

LinuxSelf-hosted Free plan Record4.5 Visit
14
Xen Project Hypervisor

Xen may suit infrastructure, embedded, automotive, security-sensitive, and safety-critical systems.

LinuxSelf-hosted Free plan Record4.5 Visit
15
OpenNebula

OpenNebula suits organizations managing cloud or virtualization infrastructure across on-premises, public-cloud, or edge environments.

WebLinuxAPI+1 Free plan Record4.4 Visit
16
ACRN Hypervisor

ACRN suits embedded IoT developers working with Intel x86 bare-metal hosts and command-line management.

LinuxSelf-hosted Free plan Record4.3 Visit
17
StratoVirt

StratoVirt suits teams running Linux cloud infrastructure that need virtual machines, containers, or serverless workloads on Intel or Arm hosts.

LinuxSelf-hosted Free plan Record4.3 Visit
18 Windows Free plan Record4.3 Visit
19
Parallels Desktop

Parallels Desktop suits Mac users who need Windows or Linux virtual machines, including people using Windows applications alongside macOS.

WindowsMacLinux — Record4.0 Visit
20
Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines

It suits teams delivering applications on OpenShift, including decentralized teams working with microservice-based architectures.

WebLinuxAPI+1 — Record4.0 Visit
21
IBM PowerVM

PowerVM suits enterprises running AIX, IBM i, or Linux workloads while modernizing legacy systems, supporting AI, or building hybrid clouds.

LinuxSelf-hosted — Record3.7 Visit
22
Scale Computing Platform

It suits distributed enterprises and edge locations that need virtualization, recovery and centralized fleet management.

WebLinuxAPI+1 — Record3.7 Visit
23
IBM z/VM

It suits organizations running virtualized Linux, z/OS, z/TPF, hybrid-cloud, or container workloads on supported IBM Z or LinuxONE hardware.

Self-hosted — Record3.5 Visit
24 WindowsLinux — Record3.5 Visit