Fabric vs everyone else. Scored honestly.
Side-by-side comparisons of Fabric with every major hyperconverged and virtualization platform — licensing model, what you install, storage, networking, high availability, updates, multitenancy, disaster recovery, sovereignty and hardware. Where the other platform is ahead, the table says so.
VMware
VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)VMware Cloud Foundation is licensed per core with a 16-core minimum per CPU and bundles vSphere, vSAN, NSX and Aria whether you use them or not. Fabric is licensed per node by class and includes the whole platform.
Proxmox
Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE)Proxmox VE is free software; the subscription buys the enterprise repository and a ticket allowance, per CPU socket. Fabric’s Community edition is also free and unlimited; paid classes add the production channel and support, per node.
Nutanix
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) with the AHV hypervisorNutanix licenses per core in Starter, Pro and Ultimate tiers, with networking security, DR orchestration and other capabilities gated by tier or add-on. Fabric has one edition, priced per node by class.
Scale Computing
Scale Computing SC//Platform (HyperCore)Scale licenses per core, channel-only, in Standard and Professional tiers; Standard drops replication, snapshot scheduling, GPU and affinity. Fabric has one edition per node class.
VergeIO
VergeOS by VergeIOBoth license per server with all features included. Reseller-listed VergeOS Enterprise runs roughly $12,000 per node per year; Fabric’s Medium class is $1,800 and Edge is $500.
Harvester
Harvester HCI (SUSE Virtualization)Harvester is free and open source, supported through SUSE subscriptions; Fabric is free in Community and per node by class when supported.
Azure Local
Microsoft Hyper-V and Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI)Azure Local bills per physical core per month via Azure and must sync with Azure regularly; Fabric is per node per year and needs no connection at all.
XCP-ng
XCP-ng with Xen Orchestra (Vates)XCP-ng is free; Vates sells per-host support and Xen Orchestra Appliance plans. Fabric is free in Community and per node by class when supported.
Fabric in one paragraph.
Fabric is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform from IZT Cloud that ships as one signed firmware image per server: a type-1 hypervisor, distributed block storage, per-tenant software-defined networking, high availability with verified fencing, a tenant self-service portal and signed A/B updates — on commodity x86 hardware, priced per node by node class, never per core, and fully operable with no internet connection.
Fabric is in closed beta today. General availability is planned for Q1 2027.
Per node, by class
Edge $500 · Small $1,000 · Medium $1,800 · Large $3,200 · X-Large $5,000 per node per year. Community is free and unlimited.
One signed image
Hypervisor, storage, networking and agent in one A/B firmware image with automatic rollback.
Tenancy included
Tenants, quotas, isolated networks and a self-service portal in every class.
Sovereign by design
No phone-home, no licence server, no kill-switch. Runs fully air-gapped.
The rules we hold ourselves to.
- Roadmap is labelled and counts against us. A Fabric capability that has not shipped is tagged "Roadmap" in the table and the dimension is scored for the other platform.
- Competitor prices carry their basis. Every figure says whether it is list, reseller or verified street pricing, and when it was checked. The example is always the same dual-socket, 32-core node.
- Competitor facts come from public documentation. Licensing models, architecture and limits are taken from the vendor's own materials. If we have something wrong, tell us and we will fix it.
- "Even" is a real score. Mature platforms do many things as well as we do; we do not manufacture a win where there is none.
Then price it for your servers.
Five node classes, every feature in every class, a free unlimited Community edition.