CloudBolt vs Red Hat CloudForms comparison

CloudBolt and Red Hat are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. CloudBolt is ranked #29, while Red Hat is ranked #35. CloudBolt holds a 2.1% mindshare in CM, compared to Red Hat’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of CloudBolt users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 66% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

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66% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

CloudBolt and Red Hat CloudForms are prominent players in the cloud management solutions market. CloudBolt appears to have the upper hand in pricing and support, while Red Hat CloudForms offers richer features.

Features: CloudBolt integrates with various cloud platforms, offering flexibility and scalability. It provides automation tools for hybrid environments and simplifies management. Red Hat CloudForms emphasizes strong security features and comprehensive monitoring, ideal for large enterprises. The core difference lies in CloudBolt’s focus on automation as opposed to CloudForms’s emphasis on security.

Room for Improvement: CloudBolt could enhance its feature set to better accommodate enterprise-specific needs, improve its security features, and expand its monitoring capabilities. Red Hat CloudForms could work on simplifying its deployment process, improve customer service responsiveness, and offer more flexible pricing options to better suit small to mid-sized companies.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: CloudBolt is known for its easy deployment process and responsive customer service, allowing quick adaptation. Red Hat CloudForms involves a more complex deployment due to extensive customization options, requiring more time and a skilled IT team.

Pricing and ROI: CloudBolt offers a flexible and cost-effective pricing model, providing a quicker ROI for smaller companies. Red Hat CloudForms requires higher initial setup costs but offers substantial long-term ROI for larger enterprises capable of leveraging its features fully.

To learn more, read our detailed CloudBolt vs. Red Hat CloudForms Report (Updated: December 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

CloudBolt

Ranking in Cloud Management

29th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Cost Management (45th)

Red Hat CloudForms

Ranking in Cloud Management

35th

Average Rating

6.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of CloudBolt is 2.1%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat CloudForms is 1.6%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
CloudBolt	2.1%
Red Hat CloudForms	1.6%
Other	96.3%

Cloud Management

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AdeolaEkunola

Director at NIGERCUBES LTD

The solution offers reliable resource control but needs to improve its UI

Cloudbox is just an abstraction software. There is no need for scalability. It's quite a simple solution. You might only need to increase the resources you apply to the CloudBold deployment. If, for example, the number of users increases, you might have to check the recommendations from CloudBolt and act accordingly. We have over 100 internal users. Regarding the infrastructure it sits on, the solution sits on the private of the on-prem, a VMware infrastructure that stands across two sites, the DR and the main production. We have over 60 ESXi of Asterisk and about 500 or 1,000 virtual machines.

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Ilhami Arikan

Cloud Services Automation Technologies Manager at Garanti Teknoloji

A stable solution that helps to provision servers

We use the solution to provision servers. I am impressed with the product's ability to create dynamic catalogs. The solution's provisioning engine needs to be improved. I would rate the solution's stability an eight out of ten. I would rate the product's scalability a seven out of ten and…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I find the self-service features valuable."

"The initial deployment was super easy."

"Role-based access control and application blueprinting."

"Hybrid cloud platform for VM and app deployment and management, with very good stability. It's customizable, easy to set up, and can be deployed within half an hour."

"The solution's biggest advantage is flexibility"

"Red Hat CloudForms is stable once it is up and running."

"The multi-tenancy feature has been very helpful for our clients. It has been working fine and seamlessly for them. Its interface is also very simplified, and it is also an open and easy-to-scale solution."

"I am impressed with the product's ability to create dynamic catalogs."

"I am impressed with the product's reports."

"The most valuable features of Red Hat CloudForms are the benefit of the collective functionality."

"The stability of the solution is very good. We haven't had any issues with it."

"The solution is compatible and integrates with various infrastructures or providers."

"The optimization of the solution is quite interesting."

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Cons

"The solution is not easy to use. It's not intuitive enough to click anywhere in the solution and make it work."

"Could increase the number of integrations and add more out-of-the-box work flows."

"The scheduling feature of CloudBolt needs improvement because sometimes, it doesn't work."

"The area of integrating on-prem and cloud needs improvement."

"The management of SaaS must be improved."

"I have issues with the solution's permissions. Unlike VMware, the product doesn't allow folder-type permissions."

"The problem is that the platform requires it to be maintained and updated. Also, a few cases are still pending with the Red Hat support team since they are not closed yet."

"The solution's provisioning engine needs to be improved."

"It is difficult to create a complete dashboard that includes all the needed features or catalogs."

"Red Hat CloudForms could improve by allowing more customization of reports. We have to do a lot of coding to accomplish what we want. Additionally, the compatibility with the multi-cloud could improve. The latter versions of the solution removed Google support and the cost comparison between other clouds was high."

"The solution is still quite immature."

"Our clients had challenges or issues with the updates. Its updates should be better managed. They should provide quicker and more stable updates. Its stability can also be better. We initially faced ease-of-use and compatibility issues while integrating it. We had a lot of compatibility issues with other products. Our clients are concerned about whether it is under IBM or it is still Red Hat. Clients are not very clear about the support, and they're not really happy with it. Currently, they're getting support from Red Hat, but going forward, they're not really clear about what would be the life cycle of the product, which is a concern for them."

"The complexity of the solution is a bit high in comparison to VMware."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is reasonably priced."

"The system is cheaper if a customer has fewer servers since you pay by the node."

"I rate the pricing an eight out of ten because the solution is expensive."

"It is definitely cheaper than VMware. Everything is included. There is no challenge there."

"The product's licensing is based on the number of servers."

"The price of Red Hat CloudForms was not competitive, it was expensive."

"Red Hat CloudForms is a bit expensive."

"Red Hat CloudForms has a subscript-based pricing model. The cost is approximately $20,000 annually which allows you to use as many users as you want."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

University

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

15%

University

10%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Large Enterprise	7

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 18% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Overview

CloudBolt supports a variety of cloud technologies, from on-premises virtualization and private cloud to a wide range public and hybrid cloud configurations.

No need to rip-and-replace. CloudBolt provides easy import, syncing, and management of legacy deployments even as it helps you build out new cloud environments.

CloudBolt lets administrators create and maintain configuration standards while developing a reusable library of service and application templates.

CloudBolt

Manage container, virtual, private, and public cloud infrastructures

Managing a complex, hybrid IT environment can require multiple management tools, redundant policy implementations, and extra staff to handle the operations. Red Hat® CloudForms simplifies IT, providing unified management and operations in a hybrid environment.

As your IT infrastructure progresses from traditional virtualization toward an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model, CloudForms evolves, protecting your investments and providing consistent user experience and functionality.

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Sample Customers

WM, CyWest, Panic, Camden, University of Maryland, Xerox, Neustar, Medidata, Continu, Aruba Networks, Neuberger Berman, Peak6, EverBank, Ascensus, Hosting Edge

Cox Automotive, Penn State, FICO, G-ABLE, Seneca College, ITandTEL, The Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS), MyRepublic, Macquarie, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, CBTS, Network Data Solutions (NDS)

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