We operate VMware and Proxmox environments at my workplace. The pricing for Proxmox is so significantly lower that it's essentially free, even if we were to purchase support for every host/socket (which we currently don’t).

I’m intrigued to see how they price the new Proxmox Datacenter Manager product [1]. One of the primary challenges in retiring our VMware environment has been the absence of centralized management.

Proxmox could charge us 50% or more than vSphere’s pricing, and we would still be willing to pay it. That’s how much our VMware bill has increased. We are not alone in this; virtually every VMware customer is seeking more affordable alternatives. Proxmox has an opportunity to generate substantial revenue if they can successfully license PDM for business customers.

Honestly, I doubt that Proxmox is even considering home users in terms of subscriptions and payments at the moment.

[1] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-datacenter-manager...