CloudZero brings to your infrastructure what your teams like about the public cloud: spinning up a machine without waiting, knowing what each project costs, driving everything through an API. Without the runaway bill or your data sitting with a third party.
No hypervisor licence, no usage-based bill that drifts. Cost follows your hardware, not a vendor's pricing decisions.
€0 in hypervisor licencesTeams create VMs, databases and networks themselves, within the quotas you set. IT stays in control without handling tickets.
per-project quotas and budgetsEverything runs in your server room. Disks, objects and databases stay in standard formats: you can leave whenever you want.
disks, S3, PostgreSQLWe write CloudZero, install it and migrate your machines. After that, we run it for you or your teams take it over. Support talks to the people who write the code.
vendor and integratorOne installation, from the foundation up to the console. Each layer relies on proven open source software, integrated, tested and maintained by us.
You keep your hardware, and you choose who runs it: us, or your own teams after buying the platform.
A team discovering the console needs no training. Here is the journey of a new project, from creation to invoice.
One project per application or customer, with its own budget, quotas and members. Roles come from your directory through SSO.
Image, flavor, network, SSH key. The cost at your internal rate and the remaining quota are shown before creation.
A public IP, a firewall rule, and the application is live. No ticket to the network team, and every rule is logged.
A managed database on the project's private network, backed up by the platform. The team gets a connection endpoint, not a server to administer.
Common open source applications, or your in-house apps published by IT, deployed on the shared application platform. No machine to manage, and the cost is charged to the project.
Usage per project and per service, alerts before overspending, export for internal chargeback.
The building blocks your teams use every day, in one place, with the same permissions and the same cost tracking.
The web console, API, CLI and Terraform provider cover the same scope. Anything you can do with a mouse, you can do in code.
Organizations and projects, custom roles, SSO, audit log. Usage tracking, budgets, quotas and a rate card for chargeback.
The console, the CLI and the Terraform provider all rely on the same API. Your pipelines create complete environments, with the same permissions, quotas and cost tracking as a user.
Teams already working with infrastructure as code keep their habits.
Each option has its strengths. Here is where CloudZero stands on the criteria that matter to IT leaders.
| Criterion | CloudZero | VMware | Proxmox | OpenStack | Public cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-service for teams | Console, API, CLI, Terraform | Depends on add-on products | Built for administrators | Yes | Yes |
| Managed PostgreSQL, S3, load balancers | Included | Add-on products | No | Depends on modules deployed | Yes |
| Hypervisor licence | None | Per-core subscription | None, optional support | None | Included in the price |
| Cost predictability | High: your hardware | Depends on renewals | High | High, excluding expertise | Usage-based, variable |
| Data on site | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | With the provider |
| Operational effort | Run by us or by your team | Trained in-house team | Low at small scale | High, rare expertise | Carried by the provider |
| Point of contact | One team, vendor and integrator | Separate vendor and integrator | Vendor or integrator | Integrator | The provider |
The best argument is your own team creating its own machines on your own hardware. We install, you use it, we review the results together.
All it takes is a few spare x86 servers and network access. Details are agreed together during scoping.
Request a 30-day pilotWe are the vendor behind CloudZero. The same team develops the platform, installs it at your site, migrates your machines, runs it for you if you wish and builds whatever custom pieces you need.
When you report a problem, it reaches the people who can fix it in the code. No back-and-forth between a vendor, an integrator and a managed-services provider.
Usually not. CloudZero installs on your existing servers. We check their compatibility during scoping and tells you exactly what can be reused.
A stack of proven open source products, integrated, tested and maintained by us. The detailed composition is presented during scoping.
Yes. Machine disks, object storage and PostgreSQL databases use standard formats. You get your data back without any proprietary conversion.
Inventory, installation alongside the existing estate, planned batch migration, then operations. We handle the migration with your teams, application by application.
Your choice. We run it for you under a service level agreed together, or you buy the platform and your teams run it themselves. You can also switch from one to the other.
Yes, that is the use case for hosting providers and IT service firms: one organization per customer, a rate card, usage tracking and chargeback.
Managed Kubernetes is in preview. It is available during a pilot, with the same networks, quotas and permissions as the rest of the platform.
No hypervisor licence, no usage-based billing. The pilot lets you size the target on your own estate.
Describe your estate in a few lines. An engineer will call you back to prepare the scoping.
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