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Unraid vs XCP-ng: catalog facts
UnraidXCP-ng
Paid

Paid licence with a free trial.

Free

The hypervisor is free and open source. Vates sells support and the prebuilt Xen Orchestra…

Self-hosted Linux, Self-hosted
  • Mix and match drives of any size
  • Large library of Community Apps Docker templates
  • No feature is locked behind a licence key
  • Xen Orchestra adds backup, replication and a web console across a pool of hosts
  • Requires a paid licence after the trial
  • Not open source
  • Xen Orchestra's prebuilt appliance is a paid product; the free path is building it from source
  • Hardware compatibility follows Xen, which is narrower than KVM
Operating system Self-hosted, Operating system
Closed source Open source
License not stated License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 23, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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