OpenStack 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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OpenStack

4.6

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Pricing

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About OpenStack

OpenStack is a cloud operating system solution that helps users manage large amounts of networking resources, compute and storage through the use of a data center and APIs. It offers an intuitive platform with a user-friendly dashboard and additionally also provides orchestration, service management and fault management to name a few.

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Basic

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OpenStack Features

Popular features found in Cloud Storage
Access Controls/Permissions
Backup and Recovery
Data Storage Management
Encryption
More features of OpenStack
API
Authentication
Capacity Analytics
Cloud Computing
Cost Management
File Sharing
Multi-Cloud Management
Performance Analysis

OpenStack User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

62%

38%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.5

Martin P.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2023

OpenSource cloud virtualization tool

We use OpenStack to provide automatized solution for our clients. It was popular and contains open-source solution for cloud virtualization. Nowadays the popularity dropped down so we slowly dropping support.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The whole architecture is divided into entities which collaborate with their functionalities across system. OpenStack provides web interface for their management. You can use CLI interface to call stack functions. It also provides SDK for some programming languages to automatize entities management.

Cons:

The web interface for management is a bit more complex and difficult to understand. In compare with another commercial solutions it lacks some extended features. The popularity of OpenStack dropped in-time.

Reasons for choosing OpenStack

Open-source and modern.

Reasons for switching to OpenStack

I wanted to try open-source alternative to popular virtualization tools.

Gurleen K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

OpenStack - A open-source software platform for cloud computing.

I am working with the OpenStack IaaS from past many years and it surely increases the software delivery speed. The unified management helps in tracking the CloudForm cost. We can also control our resource accounting to the compliance of the product.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

OpenStack is a open-source software platform used for cloud computing. Rackspace Hosting and NASA mutually launched it in 2010. OpenStack architecture is simple and easy to understand and implement. The Heat orchestration provide an ample amount of template to implement the main service pipeline. It simplifies the control for managing the large amount of computing, storage and networking. Dashboard gives the complete infrastructural view and gives the platform to administrate the things in the single web interface. Managing the virtualization of storage, CPU, memory and other resource is easy with using IaaS.

Cons:

Public, Private cloud distribution work more efficiently but it needs huge time to setup according to your infrastructures requirement and same time we need for the upgrade of service or product. The other thing I least like in it is management of containers should be more simple as it is one of the most useful feature of OpenStack.

Verified

Reviewer

Telecommunications

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

OpenStack User Review

Very great product . Saves a lot of user/company cost due to maximizing the hardware usage using VM's. Easy to use and operate by end user . Few simple clicks will lead to a great world of cloud

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Very easy to tack the usage and resources using dashboard. Easy to create/delete/modify VM's. Lot of saving in term of actual hardware usage

Cons:

Deployment is bit tedious. Some GUI forms can be improved. Example templates can be given.

Prasuk J.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

The revolution in the Cloud

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Whatever could be done is being done by openstack foundation. A plenty of projects are being ran under the Openstack foundation, be it core services like Network, Compute, Storage or additional services Containerization, Microservices everything is here at openstack.

Cons:

The Openstack being opensource has a lot of things to be done yet the contributors are put a lot of there efforts for a fully stable Openstack.

Abid H.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

OpenStack Review

we are using open stack as first line of cloud deployment in the data center with all required features and services with single platform to meet business needs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

OpenStack Software is Unified Cloud Computing software that can manage very large pools of resources including compute , storage and networking in the data center environment to cop businesses requirement,its also have nice api to automate and program the cloud network as you want to be.it can also be integrated with VMware Sphere as per need or requirements

Cons:

third party integration plugins and packages can be difficult to integrate sometimes,it needs specific domain knowledge and expertise.

Verified

Reviewer

Telecommunications

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

I use openstack every day

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

It's very easy to use and highly scalable.

Cons:

It requires some degree of familiarity with the command line.

Alicia L.

Verified reviewer

Luxury Goods & Jewelry

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

The Perfect Open Source Cloud Management Platform

Overall, you can not beat an open-source operating system that manages and stores your data and network resources. If you are looking for a cloud system, I would definitely use openstack!

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

There are a lot of new features and this platform has an active contributing community. It is very easy to track resources using the dashboard interface.

Cons:

There is a steep learning curve with this product, ultimately I had it set up for me because it was challenging to configure on my own. The user interaction was not beginner friendly.

Verified

Reviewer

Used other for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Tested different cloud management platforms

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The biggest pro of OpenStack is that it's an open-source cloud management platform. - Great performance and scalability. - New features on a regular basis such as High Availability with Cyborg and support for vGPU. - Very active community around this product.

Cons:

Cons: - OpenStack is difficult to start with and has a steep learning curve. - CloudStack is not easy to setup and configure, my recommendation would be to find a good class and safe a lot of frustration. - Documentation needs work. - As there's a million of different configuration options and features I would advice anyone to carefully reviews if OpenStack is the right product for your use case.

Balwinder P.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Great open source cloud platform

I think it is the best option for a small new business.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

OpenStack is a great open source platform for cloud solutions. With its open source way, it gives more options for a customized service. Although, it has other great features like database management.

Cons:

OpenStack is really a great platform in open source cloud computing category. However, it still need some improvement in its User Interface. I think the UI should be more user friendly.

Jason T.

Verified reviewer

Pharmaceuticals

201-500 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Great IAAS

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Open source software that virtualizes servers to save costs and space without need for a data center

Cons:

Latency and time to retrieval could be faster than it is now

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