Best Bare Metal Provisioning Software in 2026
Updated
In short: Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud is ranked #1 of 29 as of 4 October 2026, ahead of Foreman and NVIDIA ShadowPlay. The best-ranked option with a free plan is Foreman. The lowest first paid tier on this page is Canonical MAAS at $2.50/mo.
Bringing physical servers online calls for attention to discovery, deployment, and ongoing management. Compare bare-metal discovery and hardware inventory with lifecycle management and API access to see which capabilities relate to your infrastructure work. OS image deployment, PXE bootstrapping, and out-of-band management add further criteria for considering how machines are provisioned and administered. Confluent and Foreman head the ranking, followed by MetalSoft Bare Metal Orchestrator and Digital Rebar Provision. The comparison also includes free-plan availability and paid-from pricing; consider those details alongside the provisioning functions your environment requires.
29 bare metal provisioning software ranked on what their makers publish — plans and prices, free tiers, platforms and the facts on their own pages.
Recognised 40% · Phone app 26% · Documented 20% · Free plan 14% of the score
- 1 Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud iPhone + Android RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 7.0
- 2 Foreman No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.4Free
- 3 NVIDIA ShadowPlay No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.4Free OS image deployment: YesPXE bootstrapping: Yes
- 4 Supermicro SuperDoctor 5 No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.4Free
- 5 Canonical MAAS No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.3$2.50/mo
- 6 Clonezilla No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.3Free
- 7 openQRM Enterprise No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.3Free OS image deployment: YesPXE bootstrapping: Yes
- 8 AuroraBoot No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.2Free OS image deployment: YesPXE bootstrapping: Yes
- 9 Serva No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.2$7.67/mo
- 10 NVIDIA Base Command Manager No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.1 OS image deployment: YesPXE bootstrapping: Yes
- 11 Confluent No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.8 Bare-metal discovery: YesOS image deployment: YesPXE bootstrapping: Yes
- 12 Grendel No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.8 Bare-metal discovery: YesOS image deployment: YesPXE bootstrapping: Yes
- 13 MetalSoft Bare Metal Orchestrator No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.8 Bare-metal discovery: YesOS image deployment: Yes
- 14 NVIDIA Infra Controller No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.8 Bare-metal discovery: YesOS image deployment: YesPXE bootstrapping: Yes
- 15 NOC-PS No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.7€83.33/mo Bare-metal discovery: YesOS image deployment: YesPXE bootstrapping: Yes
- 16 Digital Rebar Provision No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.4
- 17 HCL BigFix No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.4
- 18 Tengan No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.4 Bare-metal discovery: YesOS image deployment: YesPXE bootstrapping: Yes
- 19 Cobbler No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.1
- 20 Warewulf No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.1
- 21 DRBL No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 4.9
- 22 FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 4.9
- 23 FOG Project No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 4.9
- 24 iVentoy No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 4.9Free
- 25 Metal³ No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 4.9
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Questions about this list
Which bare metal provisioning software is ranked first on Samsung Mobile US Press?
Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud is ranked #1 of 29 with a score of 7.0. Foreman is second and NVIDIA ShadowPlay third.
How many of these have a free plan?
9 of the 25 on this page publish a free plan on their own pricing pages.
Which is the cheapest paid option?
On this page, Canonical MAAS has the lowest first paid tier we found: $2.50/mo.
How is this list ranked?
Ranked mobile-first: a phone app alongside the web or desktop product, a free tier and the depth of its documentation. Paid placements never change a rank.