--- title: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Reviews meta\_title: 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 977 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Red Hat Enterprise Linux works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.6 review\_count: 977 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Ubuntu](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ubuntu") Ubuntu 4.5/5(2,399) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) [ ![Apple iOS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Apple iOS") Apple iOS 4.6/5(1,585) ](https://www.g2.com/products/apple-ios/reviews) [ ![Windows 7](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Windows 7") Windows 7 4.2/5(903) ](https://www.g2.com/products/windows-7/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/competitors/alternatives) # Red Hat Enterprise Linux Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Red Hat Enterprise Linux but has limited features. Are you part of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a enterprise operating system designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance environment for modern IT infrastructures. It supports a wide range of applications across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, making it a versatile choice for businesses of all sizes. Key Features and Functionality: - Security: RHEL offers live kernel patching, security profiles, and adheres to security standards certifications, ensuring a robust defense against vulnerabilities. - Consistent Lifecycle: The operating system follows a predictable lifecycle with three phases: full support, maintenance support, and an extended life phase, providing long-term stability and planning capabilities. - Cloud Integration: RHEL is optimized for cloud environments and collaborates with major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, facilitating seamless workload migration and management. - Developer Access: Red Hat provides developers with free access to RHEL through the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Business Developers" platform, allowing up to 25 instances for development purposes. Primary Value and Solutions: RHEL addresses the need for a reliable and secure operating system that can handle diverse workloads across various environments. Its comprehensive security features mitigate risks, while the consistent lifecycle ensures long-term support and stability. The integration with leading cloud providers simplifies cloud adoption and management, and the provision of free developer access fosters innovation and accelerates application development. Overall, RHEL empowers organizations to build, deploy, and manage applications efficiently, aligning with business demands for production-readiness and operational excellence. * * * Seller [Red Hat](https://www.g2.com/sellers/red-hat) Discussions [Red Hat Enterprise Linux Community](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Rachel Cole Show More ## Typical Contract Price Pricing provided by BetterCloud and others. $$k - $$k Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing](/auth/linkedin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g2.com%2Fproducts%2Fred-hat-enterprise-linux%2Freviews%3Ffocus_review%3D13119504%26product_id%3Dred-hat-enterprise-linux) ## User Insights Average based on 977 real user reviews. Implementation Time 3 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Red Hat Enterprise Linux Integrations (23) What do users say about integrations? 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System Administrator Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/26/2025 "Patching and Vulnerability Issues Undermine an Otherwise Strong OS" 2/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Enterprise Linux? It is better as compared to Windows Operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Had issues with patching and vulnerability management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Enterprise Linux solving and how is that benefiting you? Helps me with hosting applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Nilanjan N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nilanjan N.") NN Nilanjan N. Senior Associate Consultant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/10/2022 "The best linux env to deploy your applications" 2/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Enterprise Linux? It is industrial grade and easy to manage and scale anywhere platform to deploy nifi services for us , it can fit upto your usecase Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Inability to auto scale is the biggest dissapointment here Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Enterprise Linux: You must go witht rhel on aws , this combination works really fine for most of the use cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Enterprise Linux solving and how is that benefiting you? We are not solving any problems but deploying our nifi services in RHEL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/13/2022 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jason L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jason L.") JL Jason L. Operations Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/30/2021 "Good Idea but low end user reason to use" 1.5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Enterprise Linux? New look compared to window apple interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Not a lot of usable feature for the end user, targeted more toward programmers and developers in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Enterprise Linux solving and how is that benefiting you? n/a Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") AH Verified User in Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/7/2020 "RHEL is still an industry standard, but there are other compelling options to consider." 2/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Red Hat offers great support and their education and certificate options are second to none. The company has a rich history and thus far it appears as though IBM is going to allow them to continue without meddling. It appears that their entry into containerization is well thought out. I also liked the length of time they support their releases -- this is important if you don't need to kep on the bleeding edge of distributions and value stability over feature set. In this way you don't sacrifice security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Enterprise Linux? We found that we were having to compile too much software that we could get pre-packaged using a debian/Ubuntu distribution. Support, while very good, did cost more than from Canonical. Automated patching was not easy or straightforward for us without significant work and customization. There are some specialized packages, especially dealing with image and pdf conversions, which are much easier to install and keep up to date on debain based operating systems. We found that this ease of updating was more important to us in many cases than the other benefits Red Hat provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Consider looking at containerization if it fits your use case. Look at specific packages you require and determine their availability on multiple platforms if you are not able to containerize. Support costs should be considered as well, of course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Enterprise Linux solving and how is that benefiting you? We have platforms which require a unix-like operating system to run. Red Hat provided that for us. We have not yet made the pivot to containerized workloads, however. Uptimes for our Red hat servers were much better on the whole than for those servers we ran on Windows. Where possible we opted to go with Linux based operating systems rather than Windows, for both cost and stability reasons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Benjamin B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Benjamin B.") BB Benjamin B. Web Developer Internet Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/22/2016 "RedHat flavour of Linux" 1.5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Easy to install. Enterprise support. Very solid distribution of Linux with the backing of Red Hat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Built in package repositories leave a lot to be desired, and you often have to add third-party repositories to install basic software, for example, LibreOffice. Other than the enterprise support there's not much difference between the completely free and open-source CentOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Only use this if you need the enterprise support. There's other distributions of Linux that are free and have a better community behind them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Enterprise Linux solving and how is that benefiting you? It's a solid distribution to run our SaaS applications (Ruby On Rails/NGINX/Passenger) on. Very stable and easy to maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Red Hat Enterprise Linux ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/discussions/new) ![zabihullah D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "zabihullah D.") ZD zabihullah Dilawari • Last activity almost 4 years ago How do i tourn on firewall using RHEL 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-tourn-on-firewall-using-rhel) ![Abhishek D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Abhishek D.") AD Abhishek Dubey • Last activity 6 months ago What in RHEL you guys love? 2 Upvotes 4 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/35917-what-in-rhel-you-guys-love) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 13 months ### Average Discount 12% ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/pricing) ## How much does Red Hat Enterprise Linux cost? Data powered by [BetterCloud](https://www.bettercloud.com). Estimated Price ### $$k - $$k Per Year Based on data from 8 purchases. 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