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, twelve models each. Added to the September 2026 Edition; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories: how the two compare.
Standing · first-choice share
37%
Contested · VMware vSphere 24%
37Nutanix AHV24VMware vSphere11Microsoft Hyper-V28others
37% of first choices, contested.
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.
The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Show the five products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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.
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 →
01
02M03
04
05
06K07
08C09
10Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%
Key
01Nutanix AHV37%
Nutanix AHV37%02VMware vSphere24%
VMware vSphere24%03Microsoft Hyper-V11%
04Red Hat Virtualization2%
Red Hat Virtualization2%05Proxmox VE2%
Proxmox VE2%06Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization0%
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization0%07KVM0%
08XCP-ng0%
XCP-ng0%09Citrix Hypervisor0%
10Oracle VM VirtualBox0%
Oracle VM VirtualBox0%What they warned about
One of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 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.
Proxmox VE44%
24 of 55 labels negative · 12 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“it is generally **not recommended** as a core hypervisor for a "Large B2B Company" with critical workloads” Qwen 3.7 Flash, paraphrase prompt
VMware vSphere40%
20 of 50 labels negative · 11 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“VMware vSphere (under Broadcom) is the primary platform large enterprises should approach with significant caution.” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
Oracle VM VirtualBox100%
10 of 10 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 8 hard negative
“Platforms to **AVOID** for Enterprise Production ... **Oracle VM VirtualBox** - **Why avoid it**: Designed for desktop/developer use” Kimi K2, negative prompt
Citrix Hypervisor
57%
12 of 21 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer - largely superseded by Citrix DaaS/cloud solutions)... Why to be cautious: Strategic Divestment” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
What they cite
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.
Sites the answers cite
76 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1104 links across 329 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.
vendor site · Nutanix28 answers · 61 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Guideflow28 answers · 28 citations · 9 models
23 answers · 25 citations · 11 models
22 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
vendor site · V2 Cloud22 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Gitnux21 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
20 answers · 28 citations · 9 models
vendor site · DataBank20 answers · 23 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Sangfor20 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
vendor site · FitGap19 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Microsoft17 answers · 32 citations · 6 models
vendor site · Red Hat16 answers · 23 citations · 8 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.
28 answers · 9 models
22 answers · 9 models
22 answers · 10 models
17 answers · 8 models
17 answers · 8 models
14 answers · 8 models
11 answers · 7 models
11 answers · 7 models
11 answers · 9 models
10 answers · 8 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 Nutanix AHV 37%, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure 4%, Nutanix AHV / Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure 2% | 43% | 127 | 1,000 | 37 | 61,735 | 40 | |
| VMware parent site VMware vSphere 24%, VMware vSphere Foundation 4%, VMware vSphere / VMware Cloud Foundation 2%, VMware Cloud Foundation 2% | 31% | 144 | 74,000 | 17,842 | |||
| Microsoft parent site Microsoft Hyper-V 11%, Microsoft Azure Local 2%, Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local 0%, Microsoft Azure Stack HCI 0% and 1 more | 13% | 130 | 2,240,000 | 403,136 | |||
| Red Hat Virtualization redhat.com Red Hat Virtualization 2%, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 0% | 2% | 39 | 480 | 3 | 1,347,338 | $281 | 117 |
| Proxmox VE proxmox.com | 2% | 179 | 4,400 | 179 | 120,786 | ||
| Hyper-V with Windows Server Datacenter | 2% | ||||||
| Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server Datacenter | 2% | ||||||
| Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) with AHV Hypervisor | 2% | ||||||
| Red Hat RHEL Virtualization | 2% | ||||||
| vSphere | 2% |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 21 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (linkedin.com, sangfor.com, v2cloud.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 4.5VMware vSphereMicrosoft Azure Local, Nutanix AHVChangedVMware vSphereagainst: Proxmox VEMicrosoft Hyper-Vagainst: VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Nutanix AHV, Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware vSphere
Two alternatives
KVM, Microsoft Hyper-VOne alternative
Proxmox VETwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat VirtualizationTwo alternatives
KVM, Proxmox VEGPT-5.4 minivSphereNutanix AHVChangedVMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Oracle VirtualizationMicrosoft Hyper-V on Windows Server Datacenter, Nutanix AHVagainst: VMware vSphere/VCFVMware vSphereagainst: Proxmox VEagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, VMware vSphere
Three alternatives
Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VEThree alternatives
Azure Local, Azure Stack HCI, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationThree alternatives
KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHVTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHVGemini 3.5 FlashNutanix AHVagainst: VMware vSphereNutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) with AHV HypervisorChangedagainst: Proxmox VEVMware vSphereNutanix AHVagainst: VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Proxmox VE, VMware vSphereagainst: Azure Stack HCI, Citrix Hypervisor, Hyper-V Server, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, Oracle VM Server, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere, XCP-ng, oVirt
Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationTwo alternatives
Microsoft Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI) / Hyper-V, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationFour alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationFour alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, XCP-ngThree alternatives
Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationPerplexity SonarVMware vSphere / VMware Cloud FoundationNutanix Cloud InfrastructureChangedagainst: Proxmox VEVMware vSphereVMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundationagainst: Proxmox VEno first choiceagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, XCP-ng
Four alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, Proxmox VE, Red Hat VirtualizationTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, OpenStackFive alternatives
Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Virtualization / OpenShift VirtualizationTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHVGrok 4.1 FastNutanix AHVNutanix AHVHeldagainst: Dell VxRail, Proxmox VEVMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-Vagainst: VMware Cloud FoundationVMware vSphereagainst: XCP-ng, Xenagainst: Citrix Hypervisor Standalone, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Xen
Two alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphereTwo alternatives
Hyper-V, Microsoft Azure Stack HCIFour alternatives
Citrix Hypervisor, KVM-based, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHVTwo alternatives
KVM, Nutanix AHVThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationMistral SmallVMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedVMware vSphereagainst: Citrix HypervisorVMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Google Compute Engine, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, oVirt
Two alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHVFive alternatives
KVM, Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat VirtualizationFour alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Red Hat VirtualizationOne alternative
Proxmox VEDeepSeek V4 FlashVMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedagainst: Proxmox VEVMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) / oVirtMicrosoft Hyper-Vagainst: KVM / Proxmox VE, VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere
Five alternatives
KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Red Hat VirtualizationOne alternative
Microsoft Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI) / Hyper-VTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI, Nutanix AHVOne alternative
Nutanix AHVLlama 4 MaverickVMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedVMware vSphereVMware vSphere Foundationno first choiceagainst: Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware vSphere
One alternative
Dell EMC VxRailTwo alternatives
Citrix DaaS, IBM PowerVMOne alternative
VMware Cloud FoundationQwen 3.7 FlashVMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedagainst: Proxmox VEVMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-Vagainst: VMware vSphereNutanix AHV, Red Hat RHEL Virtualizationagainst: VMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, XCP-ng, oVirt
Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VETwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationFive alternatives
Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Virtualization / OpenShift VirtualizationThree alternatives
KVM, Red Hat Virtualization, oVirtKimi K2VMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedagainst: VCFVMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-Vagainst: VMware vSphere / Cloud FoundationNutanix AHVagainst: VMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Open-Source KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware vSphere / Cloud Foundation
Four alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Virtualization / OpenShift VirtualizationTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationFive alternatives
Citrix XenServer / XCP-ng, Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization/KVMOne alternative
Nutanix AHVTwo alternatives
Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationGLM 4.7 FlashXVMware vSphereNutanix Cloud InfrastructureChangedagainst: OpenStackVMware vSphereagainst: Oracle VM VirtualBoxMicrosoft Hyper-V, Red Hat Virtualizationagainst: Proxmox VE, VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere / Cloud Foundation, XCP-ngagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, Open-Source KVM, Oracle VM Server for x86, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Parallels Desktop, Proxmox VE, VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VirtualPC / Hyper‑V
Four alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationTwo alternatives
Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, Proxmox VESeven alternatives
Citrix Hypervisor, KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, OpenStack, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local, Nutanix AHVMiniMax M2.5VMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedVMware vSphereagainst: Proxmox VENutanix AHVagainst: VMware vSphereNutanix AHV, VMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, XCP-ng
One alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VOne alternative
Microsoft Hyper‑V with Storage Spaces DirectFour alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat Virtualization, SUSE Linux Enterprise ServerOne alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat VirtualizationBold 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. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two 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 | 2026-10-04 23:04 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:59 | yes | 4 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:24 | yes | 10 | 25 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:28 | yes | 18 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:11 | yes | 22 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:35 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:16 | yes | 20 | 74 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:05 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:32 | yes | 5 | 24 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 00:21 | yes | 10 | 17 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 23:08 | yes | 25 | 82 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 22:23 | yes | 9 | 27 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:45 | yes | 17 | 11 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:56 | yes | 3 | 6 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 23:13 | yes | 11 | 27 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 22:41 | yes | 18 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:57 | yes | 23 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:39 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:39 | yes | 25 | 40 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:14 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 23:19 | no | 0 | 31 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 00:53 | yes | 20 | 27 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 23:16 | yes | 25 | 76 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 22:17 | no | 0 | 49 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 23:09 | yes | 9 | 10 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:32 | yes | 6 | 13 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 22:39 | yes | 27 | 38 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:55 | yes | 17 | 5 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:09 | yes | 24 | 10 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:44 | yes | 15 | 13 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:04 | yes | 24 | 44 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:44 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:06 | yes | 10 | 38 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:57 | yes | 20 | 55 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:29 | yes | 24 | 114 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:04 | yes | 8 | 34 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:48 | yes | 18 | 10 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:12 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:19 | yes | 24 | 30 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:41 | yes | 18 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:03 | yes | 25 | 11 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:31 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 00:34 | yes | 24 | 60 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:53 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 23:52 | no | 0 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:03 | yes | 23 | 37 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:30 | yes | 23 | 37 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 23:56 | yes | 13 | 66 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:08 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 00:46 | yes | 4 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 23:24 | yes | 9 | 28 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:13 | yes | 18 | 5 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 23:53 | yes | 20 | 10 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:43 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 22:23 | yes | 24 | 43 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:21 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:02 | no | 0 | 33 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 00:06 | yes | 23 | 28 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:42 | yes | 24 | 67 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:11 | yes | 5 | 26 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:02 | yes | 18 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:07 | yes | 6 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 23:28 | yes | 20 | 29 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:45 | yes | 16 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:38 | yes | 24 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:42 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:13 | yes | 23 | 68 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 22:46 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:08 | yes | 5 | 31 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:28 | yes | 25 | 24 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:48 | yes | 25 | 45 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:24 | yes | 16 | 46 s |
Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
ShowHide
Category-scoped readings
Citrix Hypervisor / XenServer read as Citrix Hypervisor
Citrix XenServer read as Citrix Hypervisor
Citrix XenServer (Cloud Software Group) read as Citrix Hypervisor
Nutanix read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix (ACI/HCI) read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix (AHV / Nutanix Cloud Platform) read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix (AHV hypervisor) read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix (AHV-based hyperconverged platform) read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix AHV + HCI read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) with its Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Cloud Platform read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Cloud Platform (AHV-based HCI) read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Cloud Platform (with AHV Hypervisor) read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Cloud Platform with AHV read as Nutanix AHV
Proxmox read as Proxmox VE
VMware read as VMware vSphere
VMware (now under Broadcom) read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere / ESXi read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere ESXi read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere/ESXi read as VMware vSphere
Unresolved, counted raw
Arcfra AVE
Azure VMware Solution
Citrix Hypervisor Standalone
Citrix Workspace App
Dell EMC VxRail
Harvester
Hyper-V with Windows Server Datacenter
KVM-based (e.g., in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, SUSE, or Proxmox for enterprise)
Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server Datacenter
Microsoft Hyper‑V with Storage Spaces Direct (or Azure Stack HCI)
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) with AHV Hypervisor
OLVM
Oracle KVM
Oracle Linux KVM + Virtualization Manager
Platform9 Cloud Director
Proximus
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine
Red Hat RHEL Virtualization (KVM)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with KVM
VCF
VMware Fusion
VirtualPC / Hyper‑V (desktop edition)
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.