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. 56 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026; 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
64%
Proxmox VEClear leader
64Proxmox VE12Microsoft Hyper-V07VMware vSphere16others
64% of first choices, clear leader.
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 fourteen models, for a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Show the two 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.
All ten head-to-head pages: the top five products, each against each
One product takes 64% 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. Four products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category.
What they warned about
Four 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, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, 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 vSphere71%
41 of 58 labels negative · 11 of 14 models · 14 hard negative
“**Verdict:** Avoid VMware vSphere unless you have a very specific requirement for its ecosystem or a substantial budget.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Nutanix AHV39%
13 of 33 labels negative · 7 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“Avoid enterprise-heavy picks like Nutanix unless you're eyeing hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) growth.” Grok 4.1 Fast, scale prompt
Oracle VM VirtualBox58%
7 of 12 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“Avoid for Production: Oracle VirtualBox ... never for mission-critical production servers.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
VirtualBox
86%
6 of 7 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 4 hard negative
“one source explicitly says it is **“not for servers”** ... it is a poor fit for production server virtualization” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt
What they cite
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the fourteen in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.
Sites the answers cite
71 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. 982 links across 274 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. None of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category.
vendor site · FitGap31 answers · 33 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Proxmox23 answers · 40 citations · 9 models
23 answers · 28 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Veeam23 answers · 26 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Gitnux22 answers · 33 citations · 11 models
21 answers · 21 citations · 8 models
vendor site · G220 answers · 28 citations · 8 models
18 answers · 20 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Guideflow18 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Cloudchipr16 answers · 16 citations · 7 models
15 answers · 18 citations · 7 models
15 answers · 17 citations · 9 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.
30 answers · 10 models
21 answers · 8 models
20 answers · 8 models
18 answers · 8 models
16 answers · 7 models
16 answers · 10 models
14 answers · 8 models
14 answers · 8 models
13 answers · 8 models
13 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 | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proxmox VE proxmox.com | 64% | 179 | 4,400 | 179 | 120,786 | ||
| Microsoft parent site Microsoft Hyper-V 12%, Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local 0%, Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI 0%, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 0% | 12% | 130 | 2,240,000 | 403,136 | |||
| VMware parent site VMware vSphere 7% | 7% | 144 | 74,000 | 17,842 | |||
| Scale Computing scalecomputing.com | 5% | 30 | 2,400 | 171 | 40,371 | 12 | 5 |
| Nutanix AHV nutanix.com | 5% | 127 | 1,000 | 37 | 61,735 | 40 | |
| Hyper-V | 2% | 12,100 | 6,997 | ||||
| KVM | 2% | 18,100 | 7,024 | ||||
| Scale Computing HC3 | 2% | ||||||
| XCP-ng xcp-ng.org | 0% | 55 | 2,400 | 89 | 4,455 | ||
| Virtuozzo | 0% | 320 | 5 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 21 sites; 1 of them are among the sites the models cited here (linkedin.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 4.5Hyper-V, Proxmox VEMicrosoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Scale Computing HC3ChangedMicrosoft Hyper-Vagainst: VMware vSphereKVM, Proxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphere, VirtualBoxno first choiceagainst: KVM, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere
One alternative
VMware vSphereOne alternative
Nutanix AHVThree alternatives
Proxmox VE, Virtuozzo, XCP-ngOne alternative
Hyper-VGPT-5.4 miniProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedProxmox VEagainst: Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere / VMware Cloud Foundation
One alternative
Hyper-VThree alternatives
Dell VxRail, Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI, Proxmox VETwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngOne alternative
Hyper-VGemini 3.5 FlashProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereScale ComputingChangedagainst: Nutanix AHVProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereagainst: Azure Stack HCI, Nutanix AHV, OpenStack, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Parallels Desktop, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Standalone Microsoft Hyper-V Server, VMware Workstation, VMware vSphere
Two alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VETwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngPerplexity SonarMicrosoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphereProxmox VEChangedProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphere/VCFMicrosoft Hyper-Vno first choiceagainst: Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere / VMware Cloud Foundation, VirtualBox
Two alternatives
Scale Computing, VirtuozzoOne alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VM VirtualBox, VirtuozzoTwo alternatives
Oracle VM VirtualBox, Scale ComputingGrok 4.1 FastProxmox VEagainst: Nutanix AHV, Scale HC3, VMware vSphereProxmox VEHeldagainst: Nutanix AHVProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, VirtualBox, oVirtMicrosoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VEagainst: Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere
One alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, StarWind HCI, XCP-ngTwo alternatives
KVM, Microsoft Hyper-VOne alternative
XCP-ngThree alternatives
KVM, Oracle, VirtuozzoMistral SmallVMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedProxmox VEVMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: Oracle VM VirtualBox, Virtuozzo
Three alternatives
KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VEFive alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell VxRail, oVirtThree alternatives
KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphereOne alternative
vCenter EssentialsFive alternatives
KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphereDeepSeek V4 FlashProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereScale ComputingChangedagainst: Nutanix AHV, XCP-ngProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphere, VirtualBoxProxmox VEagainst: Hyper-V Server, VMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Oracle VM Server, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Parallels Virtuozzo, VMware Workstation, VMware vSphere
One alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VETwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngFour alternatives
KVM/QEMU, Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ng, XenOne alternative
Scale ComputingLlama 4 Maverickno first choiceProxmox VEChangedno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceagainst: VMware vSphere / Cloud Foundation
Three alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Sangfor HCIQwen 3.7 FlashProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEHeldagainst: Nutanix AHVProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, KVM, Nutanix AHV, QEMU, Red Hat Virtualization, Stack, VMware vSphere
Two alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngFour alternatives
HPE GreenLake, Hyper-V, StarWind Virtual SAN, XCP-ngTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngTwo alternatives
XCP-ng, Xen OrchestraKimi K2Proxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEHeldProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphere HypervisorMicrosoft Hyper-Vagainst: KVM/QEMU, Oracle VM, VMware vSphere, VirtualBox
One alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Scale ComputingTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ngOne alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VTwo alternatives
Proxmox VE, VMware vSphereGLM 4.7 FlashXProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereNutanix AHVChangedProxmox VEagainst: Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware vSphereProxmox VEagainst: Hyper-V Server, Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware vSphereno first choiceagainst: VMware vSphere / Cloud Foundationagainst: KVM, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere, VirtualBox
One alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VTwo alternatives
Azure Stack HCI, Proxmox VEOne alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VOne alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VMiniMax M2.5Proxmox VE, VMware vSphereProxmox VEChangedagainst: Nutanix AHVProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEProxmox VEagainst: Citrix Hypervisor, Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware vSphere
Two alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Scale ComputingTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, StarWindTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, VirtualBoxFour alternatives
Citrix Hypervisor, KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, VMware vSphereThree alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphereGPT-6 LunaProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEHeldagainst: Azure LocalProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEno first choiceagainst: Hyper-V Server, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, VMware vSphere 7 or older
One alternative
Hyper-VTwo alternatives
Hyper-V, Nutanix AHVTwo alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V, XCP-ng + Xen OrchestraOne alternative
Hyper-VFour alternatives
Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphereMuse Glimmer 30BProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VE, Scale ComputingChangedagainst: Nutanix AHV, vSphereProxmox VEagainst: VMware vSphereProxmox VEno first choiceagainst: Nutanix AHV, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Parallels Desktop, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere
Two alternatives
Hyper-V, VirtuozzoTwo alternatives
Hyper-V, XCP-ngOne alternative
Microsoft Hyper-VThree alternatives
Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, 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. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
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 | 2026-10-05 00:46 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:14 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:31 | yes | 16 | 28 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:35 | yes | 16 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:56 | yes | 25 | 11 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:40 | yes | 8 | 6 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 23:08 | yes | 19 | 26 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 23:59 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:09 | no | 0 | 27 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:34 | yes | 10 | 14 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:21 | yes | 24 | 36 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:56 | yes | 5 | 62 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:48 | yes | 3 | 11 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:35 | yes | 14 | 24 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:58 | yes | 18 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:05 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:54 | yes | 18 | 28 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:00 | yes | 18 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:47 | yes | 24 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:46 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 00:07 | yes | 25 | 46 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:19 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:45 | no | 0 | 31 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:40 | yes | 24 | 34 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:31 | yes | 23 | 130 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:40 | yes | 19 | 73 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 01:45 | yes | 4 | 13 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:17 | yes | 12 | 24 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 23:23 | yes | 17 | 11 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:55 | yes | 6 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:51 | yes | 12 | 27 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:49 | yes | 17 | 6 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:35 | yes | 20 | 12 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:23 | yes | 15 | 9 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 00:46 | yes | 24 | 50 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:35 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:45 | no | 0 | 26 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 00:15 | yes | 20 | 28 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:40 | yes | 25 | 56 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 23:26 | yes | 10 | 16 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:26 | yes | 4 | 15 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:57 | yes | 15 | 32 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 23:35 | no | 0 | 4 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 01:18 | yes | 10 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:15 | yes | 16 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:38 | yes | 23 | 11 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:07 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:38 | yes | 14 | 31 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 22:16 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 23:28 | yes | 5 | 19 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 00:02 | yes | 10 | 17 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:08 | yes | 24 | 175 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:39 | no | 0 | 50 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:22 | yes | 2 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 22:44 | yes | 14 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 22:13 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:37 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 22:52 | yes | 9 | 27 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:29 | yes | 19 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 23:51 | yes | 14 | 11 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:10 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:50 | yes | 20 | 37 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 22:57 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:19 | yes | 5 | 30 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:09 | yes | 15 | 18 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:41 | yes | 19 | 32 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:14 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:22 | yes | 5 | 20 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 22:16 | no | 0 | 1 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:57 | yes | 18 | 10 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 00:01 | yes | 3 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:44 | yes | 17 | 27 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:44 | yes | 18 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:50 | yes | 24 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:47 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:20 | yes | 25 | 38 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:16 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:26 | no | 0 | 26 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:00 | yes | 23 | 42 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:38 | yes | 24 | 51 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 23:52 | yes | 14 | 47 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:32 | yes | 4 | 26 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:57 | yes | 22 | 24 s |
Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
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Category-scoped readings
Citrix XenServer read as Citrix Hypervisor
Citrix XenServer / Citrix Hypervisor read as Citrix Hypervisor
Nutanix read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix AHV / HCI read as Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Cloud Platform (AHV) read as Nutanix AHV
Proxmox read as Proxmox VE
VMware read as VMware vSphere
VMware (ESXi/vSphere) read as VMware vSphere
VMware (vSphere) read as VMware vSphere
VMware ESXi read as VMware vSphere
VMware ESXi (Free or Essentials Kit) read as VMware vSphere
VMware ESXi (vSphere) read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere (ESXi) – Free Edition read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere / ESXi read as VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere/ESXi read as VMware vSphere
Unresolved, counted raw
Dell PowerEdge
Hyper-V *Role* inside a paid Windows Server license
KVM-based custom Linux setups
Lenovo ThinkSystem
Parallels Virtuozzo
QEMU
Scale HC3
Stack
Standalone Microsoft Hyper-V Server
StarWind HCI
VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell VxRail
VMware vSphere 7 or older
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)
libvirt/KVM
vCenter Essentials
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.