# Citrix Hypervisor alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 245 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Citrix Hypervisor holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/citrix-hypervisor/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Proxmox VE: 92
- Nutanix AHV: 40
- VMware vSphere: 38
- Microsoft Hyper-V: 19
- Hyper-V: 5
- Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local: 3

## Server virtualization platforms

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Citrix Hypervisor (Citrix Hypervisor is #9 of 9 at 0%).

- Proxmox VE: first choice in 61 of those 84
- Microsoft Hyper-V: first choice in 8 of those 84
- Hyper-V: first choice in 4 of those 84
- VMware vSphere: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Nutanix AHV: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Scale Computing HC3: first choice in 2 of those 84
- XCP-ng: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Microsoft Hyper-V with Windows Server Failover Clustering: first choice in 1 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 82 of 84 answers did not name Citrix Hypervisor (Citrix Hypervisor is #12 of 12 at 0%).

- Proxmox VE: first choice in 27 of those 82
- Nutanix AHV: first choice in 13 of those 82
- VMware vSphere: first choice in 12 of those 82
- Microsoft Hyper-V: first choice in 4 of those 82
- KVM: first choice in 2 of those 82
- Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local: first choice in 2 of those 82
- Hyper-V: first choice in 1 of those 82
- Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI: first choice in 1 of those 82

**Enterprise**: 79 of 84 answers did not name Citrix Hypervisor (Citrix Hypervisor is #9 of 10 at 0%).

- Nutanix AHV: first choice in 25 of those 79
- VMware vSphere: first choice in 23 of those 79
- Microsoft Hyper-V: first choice in 7 of those 79
- Proxmox VE: first choice in 4 of those 79
- Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local: first choice in 1 of those 79
- Microsoft Hyper-V with Azure Stack HCI: first choice in 1 of those 79
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: first choice in 1 of those 79
- VMware Cloud Foundation: first choice in 1 of those 79

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