#45 in Hosting & ComputeUpdated 2026-08

OpenStack

by OpenStack · Open source cloud infrastructure for compute, storage and networking

BenchRank score

26.1

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Overview

OpenStack is a set of open source software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure. It controls pools of compute, storage and networking resources, managed through APIs or a dashboard, and covers virtual machines, bare metal and containers. Further components add orchestration, fault management and service management.

Best for: Organisations running their own large-scale cloud infrastructure on-premises, at the edge or via a partner.
Pricing: No prices are shown; the project is provided under the Apache 2.0 licence, with paid help available from partners listed in the Marketplace.
Runs on: WebAndroidSelf-hostedCLI

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Open source, provided under the Apache 2.0 licence
Controls compute, storage and networking via APIs or a dashboard
Runs on-premises, in 180+ public cloud data centres or at the edge
Adds orchestration, fault management and service management

Trade-offs

You deploy and operate it yourself, or engage a Marketplace partner
A set of separate components to choose and assemble, not one install
No prices published for support, partner services or hosting

Pricing

Published plans and prices from OpenStack’s own pricing page.

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.

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Where this comes from

The OpenStack pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.

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