Top 8 VMware Competitors & Alternatives in 2025
Updated onFind more companies like VMware. We've shortlisted leading alternatives and mapped their strengths, pricing, and go-to-market focus.
VMware
Best for enterprisesEnterprise virtualization and cloud software company whose Carbon Black lineage and endpoint/cloud security offerings compete in EDR/XDR and workload protection.
Competitors
#2Est. 2006 • 1k+ employees • Public (NASDAQ:AMZN)Amazon API Gateway
Best for enterprisesAWS's fully managed service for creating, publishing, maintaining, monitoring and securing APIs at any scale.
#3Google Cloud
Google Cloud is Google’s suite of cloud computing services and products (IaaS, PaaS, and managed data/AI services) for developers and enterprises.
Starts at $6.11 / per VM (e2-micro) / monthly
#4Nutanix, Inc.
Nutanix, Inc. is an enterprise cloud computing company that provides hyperconverged infrastructure software and a hybrid multicloud platform to run virtualization, storage, databases, Kubernetes, and related services across datacenters and public clouds.
Starts at $32,797.44 / per node / yearly
#5Red Hat
Red Hat is an open hybrid cloud technology leader providing enterprise open-source software—including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, Ansible, and middleware—delivered via subscription-based support, services, and training for businesses worldwide.
Starts at $383.9 / per system (annual subscription) / yearly
#6Cisco Systems, Inc. is a global technology company that designs, manufactures, and sells networking, security, collaboration, data center hardware, software, and services for enterprise, service-provider, and public-sector customers.
#7Est. 1977 • 1k+ employees • Public (NYSE:ORCL)Oracle Corporation
Best for enterprisesOracle Corporation is a multinational technology company that provides cloud infrastructure, enterprise software (including the Oracle Database), and integrated cloud applications and platform services.
#8Citrix Systems, Inc.
Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American enterprise software company that provides virtualization and cloud-based digital workspace solutions — including DaaS (virtual apps & desktops), application delivery and networking (ADC/SD‑WAN), identity and security services — for secure remote and hybrid work; primary competitors include (in approximate order) VMware, Microsoft (Azure Virtual Desktop/Intune), Amazon Web Services (WorkSpaces), Nutanix (Frame/Xi), Cisco, Workspot, and Parallels.
#9HashiCorp
HashiCorp provides infrastructure and security lifecycle management products—including Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, Boundary and the HashiCorp Cloud Platform—to automate provisioning, secrets, service networking, and workload orchestration across cloud and hybrid environments.
Starts at $0 / per user / monthly
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