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Server virtualization platforms for small business buyers
Asked as “server virtualization platform”, and as “hypervisor or hyperconverged platform to replace VMware”, on behalf of a small 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
74%
Clear leader
74Proxmox VE09Microsoft Hyper-V04Hyper-V13others
74% of first choices, clear leader.
Since October 2026▲+10Since October 2026: 64% → 74%, +10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Proxmox VE held the lead, +10 points on 64%, 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.This pageMid-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.Standing →
Proxmox VE74%Clear leader▲+10Since October 2026: 64% → 74%, +10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This pageMid-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.Standing →The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01Proxmox VE74%2%81endorsed leader▲+10Since October 2026: 64% → 74%, +10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.64% → 74%
Proxmox VE74%2%81endorsed leader▲+10Since October 2026: 64% → 74%, +10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.64% → 74%02Microsoft Hyper-V9%4%47accepted challenger▼−3Since October 2026: 12% → 9%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.12% → 9%
03Hyper-V4%0%18accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 4%
04Scale Computing HC34%0%15accepted challenger▼−3Since October 2026: 7% → 4%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.7% → 4%
05Nutanix AHV4%42%38criticized challenger▼−1Since October 2026: 5% → 4%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.5% → 4%
Nutanix AHV4%42%38criticized challenger▼−1Since October 2026: 5% → 4%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.5% → 4%06
VMware vSphere4%77%64criticized challenger▼−3Since October 2026: 7% → 4%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.7% → 4%
VMware vSphere4%77%64criticized challenger▼−3Since October 2026: 7% → 4%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.7% → 4%Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
09Citrix Hypervisor0%62%13criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
08KVM0%18%11accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
07
XCP-ng0%4%27accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
XCP-ng0%4%27accepted 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.
For buyers
Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not small business.
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
One product takes 74% of first choices here, so the chart would put eight markers in one corner and one at the far edge. The two measurements it plots are columns in the standing above: share, and the negative label rate. Three products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category.
What they warned about
Seven of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Mistral Small, Kimi K2 and GPT-6 Luna 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 vSphere77%
49 of 64 labels negative · 14 of 14 models · 12 hard negative
“The shift to subscription-only, per-core pricing with a 72-core minimum per order and the retirement of Essentials/ Essentials+ effectively prices out small clusters.” Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt
Nutanix AHV42%
16 of 38 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid for Small Teams: Full enterprise suites like Nutanix or Red Hat unless you have specific needs” Grok 4.20, comparative prompt
Oracle VM100%
7 of 7 labels negative · 5 of 14 models · 6 hard negative
“Why avoid: Users frequently cite high costs and limited flexibility as major drawbacks.” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Citrix Hypervisor
62%
8 of 13 labels negative · 5 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“Avoid enterprise-heavy options like full Nutanix or Citrix unless you have specific HCI or desktop virtualization needs.” Grok 4.20, direct 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
67 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. 743 links across 228 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 · G235 answers · 43 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Proxmox25 answers · 32 citations · 9 models
18 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
18 answers · 22 citations · 8 models
16 answers · 17 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Guideflow16 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
16 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Spiceworks15 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
15 answers · 15 citations · 7 models
13 answers · 19 citations · 9 models
10 answers · 13 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Microsoft10 answers · 11 citations · 3 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.
29 answers · 10 models
16 answers · 8 models
15 answers · 7 models
14 answers · 7 models
14 answers · 8 models
11 answers · 6 models
10 answers · 7 models
10 answers · 6 models
9 answers · 6 models
8 answers · 6 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 | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proxmox VE proxmox.com Proxmox VE 74%, Proxmox Backup Server 0% | 74% | 179 | 4,400 | 179 | 120,786 | ||
| Microsoft parent site Microsoft Hyper-V 9%, Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI 0%, Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local 0%, Microsoft Azure Stack HCI 0% | 9% | 113 | 2,240,000 | 403,136 | |||
| Hyper-V | 4% | 12,100 | 6,997 | ||||
| Scale Computing HC3 scalecomputing.com | 4% | 22 | 40,371 | 12 | 5 | ||
| Nutanix AHV nutanix.com Nutanix AHV 4%, Nutanix Community Edition 0% | 4% | 133 | 1,000 | 37 | 61,735 | 40 | |
| VMware parent site VMware vSphere 4% | 4% | 157 | 74,000 | 17,842 | |||
| Microsoft Hyper-V with Windows Server Failover Clustering | 2% | ||||||
| XCP-ng xcp-ng.org | 0% | 58 | 2,400 | 89 | 4,455 | ||
| KVM | 0% | 18,100 | 7,024 | ||||
| XCP-ng + Xen Orchestra | 0% |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 21 sites; 2 of them are among the sites the models cited here (community.spiceworks.com, reddit.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 a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which hypervisor or hyperconverged platform to replace VMware would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top server virtualization platforms for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best server virtualization platform for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a server virtualization platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which server virtualization platforms should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Microsoft Hyper-VProxmox VEChangedagainst: Nutanix AHVProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereHyper-V, Proxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: KVM/QEMU, VMware vSphereagainst: KVM, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere, VirtualBox
Three alternatives
KVM, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphereFour alternatives
Hyper-V, KVM, Scale Computing HC3, SimpliVityTwo alternatives
Hyper-V, KVMTwo alternatives
KVM, XCP-ngGPT-5.4 miniProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Hyper-V Server, Microsoft virtualization + Windows Server, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, bare-metal KVM/libvirt
One alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VEThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ng, XenTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngGemini 3.5 FlashProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereScale Computing HC3ChangedProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, KubeVirt, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Nutanix AHV, OpenShift Virtualization, OpenStack, VMware vSphere
Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Scale Computing HC3, XCP-ng + Xen OrchestraFour alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, XCP-ng + Xen OrchestraTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox Backup Server, XCP-ngThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Scale Computing HC3, XCP-ngPerplexity SonarProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-V with Windows Server Failover ClusteringChangedagainst: Harvester, Nutanix AHV, OpenShift VirtualizationProxmox VEagainst: Nutanix AHV, OpenShift Virtualization, VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Nutanix AHV, OpenStack, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, VMware Workstation, VMware vSphere, VirtualBox
Two alternatives
Hyper-V, Managed cloud VMsTwo alternatives
Proxmox VE, Scale Computing HyperCoreTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngTwo alternatives
Hyper-V, XCP-ngGrok 4.20Proxmox VEagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphereProxmox VEHeldagainst: Full OpenStack, Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: Nutanix AHV, Oracle VM, Red Hat VirtualizationProxmox VEagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Nutanix AHV, Oracle VM, VMware vSphere, VirtualBoxMicrosoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, VMware vSphere, VirtualBox, Xen
Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ng, XenOne alternative
Microsoft Azure Stack HCIThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, XCP-ngFour alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat Virtualization, XCP-ng, oVirtThree alternatives
Dell VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix AHVMistral SmallMicrosoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VENutanix AHVChangedagainst: oVirtProxmox VE, VMware vSphereagainst: Oracle VM VirtualBoxVMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Oracle VM, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere, VirtualBox
Two alternatives
Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphereThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Scale Computing HC3Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat VirtualizationTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VEThree alternatives
KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VEDeepSeek V4 FlashProxmox VEagainst: Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphereProxmox VEHeldagainst: Azure Stack HCI, Nutanix AHV, OpenStack, XCP-ng, vSphere FoundationProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphere Essentials KitMicrosoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereagainst: Apache CloudStack, OpenStack, Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware vSphere, XenServer
One alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VTwo alternatives
Hyper-V, Scale Computing HC3Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Scale Computing HyperCore, XCP-ngTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngLlama 4 Maverickno first choiceno first choiceHeldProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEno first choiceagainst: VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere
One alternative
Oracle VM VirtualBoxQwen 3.7 FlashProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEHeldProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: Hyper-V Server, VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereagainst: Hyper-V Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, VMware vSphere, VirtualBox
Two alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Scale Computing HC3Two alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI, Nutanix AHVTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ng + Xen OrchestraOne alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VOne alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VKimi K2Proxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereScale Computing HC3Changedagainst: Nutanix AHVProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Oracle VM, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere
One alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local, Proxmox VETwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ng + Xen OrchestraTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngOne alternative
Scale Computing HC3GLM 4.7 FlashXProxmox VEagainst: Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphereProxmox VEHeldProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: CloudStack, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundation, XenServer
Two alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Scale Computing HyperCoreTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI, Nutanix AHVTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHVTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VM VirtualBoxMiniMax M2.5Proxmox VEProxmox VEHeldProxmox VEagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Oracle VM VirtualBoxProxmox VEProxmox VE, VMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Fusion, Huawei FusionSphere, IBM PowerVM, KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Nutanix AHV, Oracle VM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, VMware Server, VMware Workstation, VMware vSphere, Xen, Zstack, oVirt
Two alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphereThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI, Nutanix Community Edition, Scale Computing HC3Two alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphereThree alternatives
KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, VirtualBoxTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, oVirtGPT-6 LunaHyper-V, Proxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEChangedagainst: Azure LocalMicrosoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VEProxmox VEno first choiceagainst: Hyper-V Server, VMware vSphere
Two alternatives
Nutanix AHV, Windows Server with Hyper-VThree alternatives
Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere, XCP-ng + Xen OrchestraTwo alternatives
Hyper-V, XCP-ngFive alternatives
Azure Local, Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Windows ServerMuse Glimmer 30BProxmox VEProxmox VEHeldagainst: Nutanix AHVProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereagainst: Apache CloudStack, OpenStack, VMware vSphere
Two alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphereTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI, Scale Computing HC3Two alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local, XCP-ngTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V Server, XCP-ngFive alternatives
Hyper-V, KVM, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, XCP-ngBold 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 08:45 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 17:28 | yes | 3 | 11 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 16:58 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 15:25 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 14:45 | yes | 5 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 13:41 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 13:19 | yes | 19 | 26 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 12:44 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 11:39 | yes | 10 | 36 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 19:45 | yes | 10 | 29 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 15:40 | yes | 15 | 28 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 11:27 | yes | 10 | 21 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 15:41 | yes | 3 | 11 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 13:18 | yes | 15 | 22 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 16:40 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 09:55 | yes | 3 | 5 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 13:20 | no | 0 | 19 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 18:56 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 17:37 | yes | 5 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 09:29 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 16:18 | yes | 25 | 34 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 15:00 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 18:33 | yes | 9 | 42 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 16:43 | yes | 24 | 23 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 09:27 | yes | 19 | 52 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 14:44 | yes | 9 | 43 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 16:12 | yes | 3 | 13 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 08:59 | yes | 13 | 24 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 11:59 | yes | 18 | 11 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 16:38 | yes | 5 | 10 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 13:11 | yes | 13 | 28 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 14:42 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 17:27 | yes | 5 | 16 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 09:54 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 18:11 | yes | 25 | 38 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 13:26 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 08:45 | no | 0 | 31 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 12:53 | yes | 10 | 50 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 12:37 | yes | 20 | 170 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 14:40 | yes | 8 | 33 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 19:40 | yes | 5 | 19 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 08:45 | yes | 13 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 12:59 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 18:30 | no | 0 | 3 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 14:19 | no | 0 | 15 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 15:15 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:05 | yes | 5 | 12 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 12:22 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 10:16 | yes | 19 | 17 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 18:09 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 08:36 | yes | 5 | 43 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 18:21 | yes | 10 | 28 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 09:24 | yes | 25 | 63 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:28 | yes | 5 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 09:20 | yes | 3 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 10:22 | yes | 14 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 14:22 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 09:18 | no | 0 | 7 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 16:12 | no | 0 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 14:00 | yes | 10 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 16:42 | yes | 5 | 12 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 17:57 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 11:39 | yes | 24 | 34 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 17:14 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 16:37 | no | 0 | 28 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 16:57 | yes | 10 | 46 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 14:45 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 09:30 | no | 0 | 36 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 12:35 | yes | 5 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 16:43 | yes | 14 | 21 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 08:45 | yes | 17 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 16:49 | yes | 7 | 7 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 11:36 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 09:36 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:34 | yes | 10 | 14 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 12:31 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 15:16 | yes | 25 | 34 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:30 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 16:14 | yes | 25 | 48 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 13:54 | yes | 25 | 25 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 11:36 | yes | 25 | 29 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 17:35 | yes | 5 | 110 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 09:23 | yes | 3 | 20 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 14:13 | yes | 25 | 29 s |
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Citrix read as Citrix Hypervisor
Citrix Hypervisor / XenServer read as Citrix Hypervisor
Citrix XenServer read as Citrix Hypervisor
Citrix XenServer (legacy versions prior to 7.0) read as Citrix Hypervisor
Citrix XenServer / Citrix Hypervisor read as Citrix Hypervisor
Nutanix read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure with AHV read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Cloud Platform (AHV Hypervisor) read as Nutanix AHV
Oracle VM Server read as Oracle VM
Proxmox read as Proxmox VE
Scale Computing read as Scale Computing HC3
Scale Computing (HC3) read as Scale Computing HC3
Scale Computing (SC//Platform / HC3) read as Scale Computing HC3
Scale Computing Platform read as Scale Computing HC3
VMware read as VMware vSphere
VMware (vSphere/ESXi) read as VMware vSphere
VMware ESXi read as VMware vSphere
VMware ESXi (Free Version) read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere / ESXi read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere / ESXi (Broadcom) read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere / VMware Cloud Foundation read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere/ESXi read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere/VCF read as VMware vSphere
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Azure VMware
CloudStack
Full OpenStack
Google Compute
Harvester
Huawei FusionSphere
KubeVirt
Managed cloud VMs
Microsoft Hyper-V with Windows Server Failover Clustering
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V (Built-in Role)
Microsoft virtualization + Windows Server
VMware vSphere Essentials Kit
VMware-based
Windows Server with Hyper-V
Windows Server with Hyper-V role
XOA/Xen Orchestra
Zstack
bare-metal KVM/libvirt
vSphere Foundation
Discontinued, still offered
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