Server virtualization platforms for enterprise buyers
Asked as “server virtualization platform”, and as “hypervisor or hyperconverged platform to replace VMware”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 54 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. Added to the November 2026 Edition.
Standing · first-choice share
43%
Clear leader
43Nutanix AHV30VMware vSphere15Microsoft Hyper-V13others
43% of first choices, clear leader.
Since October 2026=heldSince October 2026: 43% → 43%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Nutanix AHV held the lead, ±0 points on 43%, inside the 11-point floor.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small business
Proxmox VE74%Clear leader▲+10Since October 2026: 64% → 74%, +10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →Mid-marketProxmox VE44%Clear leader▲+2Since October 2026: 42% → 44%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →Enterprise
Nutanix AHV43%Clear leader=heldSince October 2026: 43% → 43%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This page
Proxmox VE74%Clear leader▲+10Since October 2026: 64% → 74%, +10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →Mid-marketProxmox VE44%Clear leader▲+2Since October 2026: 42% → 44%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →EnterpriseNutanix AHV43%Clear leader=heldSince October 2026: 43% → 43%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This pageThe standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01Nutanix AHV43%3%64endorsed leader=heldSince October 2026: 43% → 43%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.43% → 43%
Nutanix AHV43%3%64endorsed leader=heldSince October 2026: 43% → 43%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.43% → 43%02
VMware vSphere30%43%65criticized challenger▲+4Since October 2026: 26% → 30%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.26% → 30%
VMware vSphere30%43%65criticized challenger▲+4Since October 2026: 26% → 30%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.26% → 30%03Microsoft Hyper-V15%8%39accepted challenger▲+4Since October 2026: 11% → 15%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.11% → 15%
04Proxmox VE7%33%60criticized challenger▲+5Since October 2026: 2% → 7%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 7%
Proxmox VE7%33%60criticized challenger▲+5Since October 2026: 2% → 7%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 7%05
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization2%3%30accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization2%3%30accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%Show the five products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
10
XCP-ng0%46%13criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
XCP-ng0%46%13criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%09Citrix Hypervisor0%43%14criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
08
Red Hat Virtualization0%24%17accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
Red Hat Virtualization0%24%17accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%06Hyper-V0%23%13accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
07KVM0%23%13accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one can't be told apart from repeat variation, and both are shown. Each index measures its own floor from its own repeat, over its own categories, so the floor differs from one index to the next. Both editions asked the same fourteen models. How the floor is measured
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.
All twenty-one head-to-head pages: the top seven products, each against each
Proxmox VE vs KVMProxmox VE vs Hyper-VProxmox VE vs Oracle VM VirtualBoxNutanix AHV vs Microsoft Hyper-VNutanix AHV vs VMware vSphereNutanix AHV vs KVMNutanix AHV vs Hyper-VNutanix AHV vs Oracle VM VirtualBoxMicrosoft Hyper-V vs VMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-V vs KVMMicrosoft Hyper-V vs Hyper-VMicrosoft Hyper-V vs Oracle VM VirtualBoxVMware vSphere vs KVMVMware vSphere vs Hyper-VVMware vSphere vs Oracle VM VirtualBoxKVM vs Hyper-VKVM vs Oracle VM VirtualBoxHyper-V vs Oracle VM VirtualBox
Recommended versus criticized
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
0102M03
0405H06
K07
08C09
10Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative60%
Key
01Nutanix AHV43%
Nutanix AHV43%02VMware vSphere30%
VMware vSphere30%03Microsoft Hyper-V15%
04Proxmox VE7%
Proxmox VE7%05Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization2%
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization2%06Hyper-V0%
07KVM0%
08Red Hat Virtualization0%
Red Hat Virtualization0%09Citrix Hypervisor0%
10XCP-ng0%
XCP-ng0%What they warned about
Three of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX, MiniMax M2.5 and Muse Glimmer 30B changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
VMware vSphere43%
28 of 65 labels negative · 13 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“Why These Are Better Than VMware Today: VMware under Broadcom has moved to subscription-only bundles with complex per-core licensing” MiniMax M2.5, budget prompt
Proxmox VE33%
20 of 60 labels negative · 11 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“Avoid evaluating "free" open-source options like Proxmox at your scale unless you have a managed service provider wrapping it.” Kimi K2, scale prompt
Oracle VM75%
6 of 8 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“now in sustaining support, and will not receive patches or security fixes... making it a deprecated platform for new deployments” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
Citrix Hypervisor
43%
6 of 14 labels negative · 6 of 14 models
“Why Be Cautious: The vendor's focus has narrowed primarily around powering Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (VDI) environments.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
What they cite
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted.
Sites the answers cite
70 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 817 links across 290 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 7 of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category; the method page measures whether that reading tilts an answer.
vendor site · Nutanix29 answers · 67 citations · 10 models
24 answers · 25 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Guideflow24 answers · 24 citations · 10 models
vendor site · G218 answers · 21 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Red Hat17 answers · 23 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Proxmox17 answers · 21 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Sangfor17 answers · 21 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Microsoft15 answers · 16 citations · 6 models
14 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
11 answers · 11 citations · 6 models
10 answers · 11 citations · 7 models
10 answers · 10 citations · 7 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
24 answers · 10 models
21 answers · 8 models
15 answers · 8 models
14 answers · 8 models
13 answers · 7 models
12 answers · 7 models
11 answers · 6 models
11 answers · 7 models
10 answers · 6 models
10 answers · 7 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best server virtualization platform”, “server virtualization platform”, “server virtualization platforms”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nutanix AHV nutanix.com | 43% | 133 | 1,000 | 37 | 61,735 | 40 | |
| VMware parent site VMware vSphere 30%, VMware Cloud Foundation 2% | 31% | 157 | 74,000 | 17,842 | |||
| Microsoft parent site Microsoft Hyper-V 15%, Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local 0%, Microsoft Azure Stack HCI 0%, Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI 0% | 15% | 113 | 2,240,000 | 403,136 | |||
| Proxmox VE proxmox.com | 7% | 179 | 4,400 | 179 | 120,786 | ||
| Red Hat OpenShift redhat.com Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 2%, Red Hat Virtualization 0%, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 0%, Red Hat OpenShift 0% | 2% | 89 | 2,900 | 89 | 1,347,338 | $281 | 117 |
| Microsoft Hyper-V with Azure Stack HCI | 2% | ||||||
| Hyper-V | 0% | 12,100 | 6,997 | ||||
| KVM | 0% | 18,100 | 7,024 | ||||
| OpenShift Virtualization | 0% | ||||||
| Oracle parent site Oracle Linux KVM 0% | 0% | 5 | 450,000 | 66,611 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 21 sites; 1 of them are among the sites the models cited here (sangfor.com). The first result for “best server virtualization platform” is gartner.com.
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.ShowHide
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best server virtualization platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which hypervisor or hyperconverged platform to replace VMware would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade server virtualization platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best server virtualization platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a server virtualization platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which server virtualization platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-V with Azure Stack HCI, Nutanix AHVChangedVMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-Vagainst: VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Oracle VM, VMware vSphere
Three alternatives
Citrix Hypervisor, KVM, XenTwo alternatives
Proxmox VE, Red Hat KVMThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VEOne alternative
KVMGPT-5.4 miniVMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedagainst: Dell VxRailVMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-Vagainst: VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Hyper-V Server, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere
Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationTwo alternatives
Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationOne alternative
Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationGemini 3.5 FlashNutanix AHVagainst: VMware vSphereNutanix AHVHeldno first choiceProxmox VEno first choiceagainst: Proxmox VE, VMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Free / Standalone Microsoft Hyper-V Server SKU, Fusion, Oracle VM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, TrueNAS Scale, UnRAID, VMware Workstation, VMware vSphere
Four alternatives
Azure Stack HCI, Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationFive alternatives
Hyper-V, Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, Proxmox VE, Pure Storage, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationFive alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, VMware vSphereThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationPerplexity SonarVMware vSphereagainst: Proxmox VENutanix AHVChangedMicrosoft Hyper-V / Azure Local, Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-Vagainst: VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Azure Local, Direct KVM or oVirt deployments, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, OpenShift Virtualization, OpenStack, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, XCP-ng
Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationFour alternatives
Azure Local, Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationFour alternatives
IBM PowerVM, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, XCP-ngTwo alternatives
Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VEGrok 4.20VMware vSphereagainst: Proxmox VENutanix AHVChangedagainst: Hyper-V without Azure Stack, OpenStack, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Scale Computing HC3, VergeIO, XCP-ng, standalone KVM on LinuxVMware vSphereVMware vSphereVMware vSphereagainst: Proxmox VE, XCP-ngagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Oracle VM, Oracle Virtualization, VMware vSphere, legacy Microsoft Hyper-V without Azure Stack HCI, standalone Xen
Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationOne alternative
Microsoft Azure Stack HCIFive alternatives
Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Oracle Linux KVM, Red Hat VirtualizationThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat VirtualizationTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI, Nutanix AHVMistral SmallVMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedVMware vSphereNutanix AHV, VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Hyper-V, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, Proxmox VE, Scale Computing HC3, XCP-ng
Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat Enterprise LinuxSeven alternatives
Dell VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, KVM, Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Virtualization, oVirtFive alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with KVM, Sangfor aSV / HCITwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVMDeepSeek V4 FlashNutanix AHVNutanix AHVHeldagainst: Proxmox VEVMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHVagainst: VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: KVM, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, XCP-ngagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, OpenStack, Oracle VM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Xen Project
Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphereTwo alternatives
Microsoft Azure Local, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationFive alternatives
KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationTwo alternatives
Proxmox VE, XCP-ngOne alternative
Hyper-VLlama 4 MaverickVMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedno first choiceVMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: VMware vSphere
Four alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise ServerTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VEQwen 3.7 FlashVMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedVMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphereNutanix AHVagainst: Proxmox VE, VMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere, vSphere
Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VETwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware Cloud on AWS/AzureFive alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, OpenShift Virtualization, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Virtualization, oVirtThree alternatives
Nutanix AHV, Red Hat KVM, Red Hat OpenShiftOne alternative
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure LocalKimi K2no first choiceagainst: VMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedNutanix AHVagainst: VMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-Vagainst: VMware vSphereNutanix AHV, VMware Cloud Foundationagainst: Proxmox VEagainst: Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops, KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Oracle VM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Windows Server, XCP-ng, Xen
Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VETwo alternatives
Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationTwo alternatives
Nutanix AHV, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationThree alternatives
Hyper-V, Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationGLM 4.7 FlashXVMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedVMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Hyper-V, KVM, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Xen
Four alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Sangfor HCITwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI, Proxmox VESix alternatives
AWS EC2, Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VM, Proxmox VE, Red Hat VirtualizationOne alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VMiniMax M2.5VMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedVMware vSphereProxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualizationagainst: VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Virtualization
Seven alternatives
Citrix Hypervisor, KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Oracle VM, Proxmox VE, Red Hat VirtualizationThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationSix alternatives
Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle Linux KVM, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Virtualization / OpenShift Virtualization, XCP-ngTwo alternatives
HPE Virtualization Solutions, Microsoft Hyper-V with Azure LocalGPT-6 LunaNutanix AHVNutanix AHVHeldagainst: Proxmox VEVMware vSphereagainst: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, Proxmox VENutanix AHV, Proxmox VEno first choiceagainst: Oracle VM, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Virtualization, Standalone Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019, VMware vSphere
Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, VMware vSphereTwo alternatives
Azure Local, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationOne alternative
Hyper-VMuse Glimmer 30BVMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedVMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-Vagainst: VMware vSphereNutanix AHV, VMware vSphereagainst: Proxmox VEagainst: Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware vSphere
Four alternatives
Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, OpenShift Virtualization, Proxmox VETwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationFour alternatives
Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShiftTwo alternatives
Azure Virtual Desktop, HPE's own hypervisorTwo alternatives
Azure Arc, Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure LocalBold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 17:35 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 10:51 | yes | 6 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 15:41 | yes | 8 | 25 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 17:49 | yes | 10 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 18:11 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 11:22 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 10:06 | yes | 24 | 29 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 10:00 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 09:29 | no | 0 | 25 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 13:35 | yes | 10 | 45 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 10:30 | yes | 15 | 252 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 11:46 | no | 0 | 76 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 15:59 | yes | 4 | 13 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 11:01 | yes | 15 | 20 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 13:09 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 15:09 | yes | 4 | 12 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 15:08 | no | 0 | 20 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 15:11 | yes | 10 | 6 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:17 | yes | 5 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 11:01 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 10:05 | yes | 21 | 20 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 16:15 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 10:54 | yes | 5 | 52 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 10:14 | yes | 18 | 60 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 13:19 | yes | 25 | 26 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:11 | yes | 8 | 51 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 13:18 | yes | 5 | 12 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 14:04 | yes | 19 | 27 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 10:47 | yes | 18 | 12 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 16:39 | yes | 4 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 18:00 | no | 0 | 21 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 17:54 | yes | 10 | 6 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 16:55 | yes | 10 | 12 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 16:45 | yes | 5 | 7 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 19:21 | yes | 25 | 40 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 16:33 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 13:46 | yes | 10 | 34 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 11:21 | yes | 10 | 65 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 16:43 | no | 0 | 58 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:24 | yes | 5 | 32 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 09:28 | yes | 6 | 17 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 10:59 | yes | 24 | 43 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 12:36 | yes | 17 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 19:36 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 09:33 | no | 0 | 19 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 17:57 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 16:01 | yes | 5 | 11 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 11:03 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 12:46 | yes | 24 | 47 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 19:11 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 17:52 | yes | 5 | 37 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 16:29 | yes | 19 | 28 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 14:03 | yes | 23 | 81 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 17:53 | yes | 9 | 46 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 11:29 | yes | 3 | 17 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 19:33 | yes | 14 | 24 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 08:42 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 12:41 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 17:32 | no | 0 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 19:11 | yes | 10 | 11 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 18:57 | yes | 10 | 15 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 16:35 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 12:23 | yes | 25 | 59 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 14:01 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 13:55 | yes | 17 | 84 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 09:13 | yes | 25 | 83 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 11:49 | no | 0 | 61 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:53 | yes | 5 | 30 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 19:05 | yes | 3 | 21 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 18:18 | yes | 25 | 38 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 16:54 | yes | 19 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 11:34 | yes | 4 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 14:36 | yes | 16 | 26 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 10:02 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:04 | yes | 5 | 13 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 19:03 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 10:58 | yes | 25 | 47 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 15:44 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 10:28 | yes | 15 | 82 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 18:15 | yes | 25 | 43 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 16:55 | yes | 23 | 88 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 19:04 | yes | 5 | 74 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 14:25 | yes | 5 | 26 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 11:45 | yes | 24 | 30 s |
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Citrix Hypervisor / XenServer read as Citrix Hypervisor
Citrix Hypervisor / XenServer (Cloud Software Group) read as Citrix Hypervisor
Citrix XenServer / Citrix Hypervisor read as Citrix Hypervisor
Nutanix read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix (HCI) read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix (and AHV) read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Cloud Platform read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Cloud Platform (AHV) read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Cloud Platform (with AHV) read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Cloud Platform with AHV read as Nutanix AHV
Oracle VM Server read as Oracle VM
Oracle VM Server for x86 read as Oracle VM
Proxmox read as Proxmox VE
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine read as Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Sangfor read as Sangfor HCI
Scale Computing read as Scale Computing HC3
Scale Computing (SC//HyperCore) read as Scale Computing HC3
Scale Computing Platform read as Scale Computing HC3
VMware read as VMware vSphere
VMware (post-Broadcom acquisition) read as VMware vSphere
VMware ESXi read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere / Cloud Foundation read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere / Cloud Foundation (VCF) read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere / ESXi read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere / VMware Cloud Foundation read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere / VMware Cloud Foundation (Broadcom) read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere / VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere/Cloud Foundation read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere/ESXi read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere/VCF (Broadcom) read as VMware vSphere
Unresolved, counted raw
AWS Nitro
Azure VMware Solution
Direct KVM or oVirt deployments
Free / Standalone Microsoft Hyper-V Server SKU
HPE VM Essentials
HPE Virtualization Solutions
HPE's own hypervisor
Hyper-V without Azure Stack
Microsoft Hyper-V with Azure Local
Microsoft Hyper-V with Azure Stack HCI
Mirantis Cloud Platform
Nutanix Prism
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (AHCM)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with KVM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM
Red Hat OpenStack Platform
SCVMM
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
UnRAID
VMware Cloud on AWS/Azure
XCP-ng with Vates support
Xen Project (upstream open-source)
legacy Microsoft Hyper-V without Azure Stack HCI
standalone KVM on Linux
standalone Xen
vCenter
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.