# SolidFire Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 SolidFire Software Review 2026: Features, Reviews, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on August 24, 2025

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[Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews)

SolidFire

## What is SolidFire?

All-flash storage tool which enables elimination of refresh cycles through a cloud infrastructure.

## What is SolidFire used for?

[Data Center Management](https://www.capterra.com/data-center-management-software/)

Overall rating

Based on 5 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

Positive

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Neutral

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Negative

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Starting price

$120

Per User, Per Month

Free trial  
available

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### SolidFire

3.8 (5)

VS.

[### Cisco ACI](https://www.capterra.com/p/235274/Cisco-ACI/)

[4.0 (1)](https://www.capterra.com/p/235274/Cisco-ACI/#reviews)

Starting Price

$120

Per Feature

Starting Price

Contact vendor

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

4.0 (5)

Ease Of Use

4.0 (1)

Value For Money

3.2 (5)

Value For Money

4.0 (1)

Customer Service

4.3 (4)

Customer Service

4.0 (1)

## SolidFire alternatives

[ZebOS Platform Protocols](https://www.capterra.com/p/138168/ZebOS-Platform-Protocols/)

[0.0](https://www.capterra.com/p/138168/ZebOS-Platform-Protocols/#reviews)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/138168/ZebOS-Platform-Protocols/)

[Centeros Data Center Manager](https://www.capterra.com/p/103009/CenterOS-DCIM-Data-Center-Mgr/)

[0.0](https://www.capterra.com/p/103009/CenterOS-DCIM-Data-Center-Mgr/#reviews)

Starting price

$11000.00

Per User, Per Month

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/103009/CenterOS-DCIM-Data-Center-Mgr/)

Highest Rated

[Cisco Data Center](https://www.capterra.com/p/150131/Cisco-Data-Center/)

[4.5 (22)](https://www.capterra.com/p/150131/Cisco-Data-Center/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/150131/Cisco-Data-Center/)

[Modius OpenData](https://www.capterra.com/p/116748/Modius-OpenData/)

[0.0](https://www.capterra.com/p/116748/Modius-OpenData/#reviews)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/116748/Modius-OpenData/)

## Pricing

Value for money

3.2 (5)

Free Trial

Basic

$120.00

Per Feature,

Value for money

3.2 (5)

3.2

Based on 5 reviews

## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.3 (4)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.3 (4)

4.3

Based on 4 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

3.8

Based on 5 reviews

Filter by rating

5(2)

4(1)

3(1)

2(1)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

AU

Anonymous User

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Computer Networking

### "Not impressed with SolidFire"

2.0

Overall Rating

2.0

2.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

2.0

2.0

Customer Service

3.0

3.0

Likelihood to Recommend

3/10

July 28, 2021

Deployment of the product was fairly simple but the product could not deliver on the scale that we needed. We had high hopes for the product but we experienced a lot of outages and would not choose this product if we had the chance to do it over again.

Pros

What we liked most about the software was the user interface and the tight API integration. All of the same functionality available in the GUI is available via CLI and there is a good amount of documentation available.

Cons

We had many problems with this solution -- especially when it comes to meeting the marketed/promised scale numbers. When one node fails there are far reaching impacts which can only be understood by opening/working with support on a support case. Assignment of support engineers is slow. The product is also very expensive and the licensing model is very confusing.

Alternatives considered

[Pure1](https://www.capterra.com/p/208633/Pure1/)

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

PP

Proby P.

Sr. Enterprise Storage Engineer

Financial Services

### "Good for simple use cases and QoS features are solid"

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

3.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

5/10

January 21, 2020

Great solutions architects (\[SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN\] is solid!) Great support - had a very positive experience working with them during our HCI POC. With the advancements Element OS has recently made, I would look at re-POC'ing and testing this product for mission-critical enterprise workloads again.

Pros

QoS Features are good for the price you pay for the storage array. The Flex cabling is definitely required as our initial deployment was a huge cable burden that we didn't plan for. Also Element OS is getting better form an enterprise ready standpoint. GUI is intuitive and easy to use and the scale out functionality is solid along with it's redundancy, high-availability, and RAID features.

Cons

When we deployed 2+ years ago, we ran into an issue with VMware that we weren't able to get past, which ultimately made us abandon the product. Also, the QoS features are not adaptive (Like NetApp ONTAP aQoS - adaptive QoS.)

Switched from

[Data Infrastructure Management](https://www.capterra.com/p/118936/Cloud-ONTAP/)

Segregate specific mission-critical enterprise workloads onto their own platform to not affected the shared workloads on the NetApp ONTAP arrays.

Alternatives considered

[Data Infrastructure Management](https://www.capterra.com/p/118936/Cloud-ONTAP/)

[AOS Distributed Storage](https://www.capterra.com/p/148356/AOS/)

[Nimble](https://www.capterra.com/p/123032/Nimble/)

Reasons for choosing SolidFire

Cost, deployment, use cases, Support agreement with NetApp, QoS features

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Beleidsadviseur ICT

Utilities

### "Fast Storage For VDI"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

July 17, 2019

We use Solidfire for VDI and later for server storage as well.

Pros

The storage is fast - SSD only. Everything is deduplicated and compressed on the fly, so the net storage is much more than you would expect based on physical storage. Integration in vCenter is done with a plugin showing graphics.

Cons

Setting up SSO in the admin interface is not easy to accomplish. Also there is no migration path from NetApp FAS to Solidfire with regards to all functionality (Solidfire does not offer CIFS out of the box).

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Joby K.

Senior Storage Engineer

Computer Hardware

### "Solidfire Admin/User"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

April 2, 2019

It can get better, not so easy to troubleshoot performance/latency issues.

Pros

Easy to Configure and use the hardware and software.

Cons

Limitation on the size of the LUN on cluster

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Adrian M.

Senior Storage Engineer

### "I'm a partner in the Caribbean certified to install "

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

April 18, 2018

improve the business efficiency by the integration with VVOLS

Pros

the installation and deployment is super easy, configuration add on and hot replacement is super fast, no raid is required and the integration with cloud is fantastic I really like to install this product, make the cloud business more easy to growth and be profitable in a short term.

Cons

the only think that I don't like is that you can't make the whole performance in a single resource, but that's why is only dedicated for cloud platform, is the requirement is performance on a single load this is not your product the target is different

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

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