Provibr vs Virtualizor

Same shape of answer as with SolusVM, and for the same reason: Virtualizor runs virtualisation; Provibr is a layer above it. One deploys VPS onto your hardware. The other talks to a hypervisor, and to the control panels and game panels beside it, and turns the whole estate into one inventory.

If VPS on your own nodes is your entire business, Virtualizor does that job and you do not need us. The layer above starts to matter when a second product type appears.

Virtualizor's real strength: it speaks almost everything

This is where Virtualizor beats us outright and it is not close.

Virtualizor describes itself as "a powerful web based VPS Control Panel" and states that it handles "OpenVZ, Xen PV, Xen HVM, XenServer, Linux KVM, LXC and OpenVZ 7 virtualization out of the box".

Seven virtualization technologies. Provibr speaks three: Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere and oVirt, plus the LXC containers Proxmox runs. If your estate runs KVM directly with no platform above it, or Xen, or OpenVZ, or Virtuozzo, we cannot drive it today and Virtualizor can. That is the whole comparison for a large share of readers, and there is no clever framing that changes it.

Where the layer above earns its place

Products that are not virtual machines. Web hosting panels and game panels, each with its own live status on our integrations page. Virtualizor's focus is VPS; ours is whatever your customers bought, whichever panel it lives in.

One inventory, one permission model, one log. A reseller with their own resource limits and their own slice of servers works the same whether that slice is virtual machines or hosting accounts.

Nothing listening on the internet. Our agent connects outbound. You open no inbound port for us and run no VPN.

Suspension that frees capacity. A suspended resource stops counting towards what you pay us: the dunning step you already wanted for commercial reasons also frees the slot.

The table

On price: we cannot compare what is not published

Virtualizor's pricing page describes lease and lifetime licence models but does not show amounts.

Virtualizor's pricing page lists yearly, monthly and lifetime licence models and a 15-day free trial, but the page does not display the amounts; it directs visitors to sales.

So this page shows ours and leaves theirs blank, which is the only honest option: €0.20 per virtual machine per month, €0.10 per web server, €0.10 per game server, €0.40 per dedicated server. That is capacity, prepaid, known before the month starts. Get their number from them and do the arithmetic with your own inventory.

The overlap is smaller than it looks

Virtualizor has an integrated billing system; we deliberately do not (see Provibr vs WHMCS for why that division exists). Virtualizor runs hypervisors; we talk to the platforms that manage them. The genuine overlap is a single row: "who provisions a VPS on Proxmox", and even there we do it through Proxmox rather than instead of it.

A provider running Virtualizor today who adds shared hosting tomorrow is not choosing between us. They are deciding whether the second product type gets its own island or joins one inventory.

Read next

• Virtualizor alternatives: the wider field
• Provibr vs SolusVM: the same layer question, other product
• Integrations: every platform and its honest status