CRI-O
Lightweight Container Runtime for Kubernetes
- Also known as
- cri-o
What is CRI-O?
A container runtime optimized for Kubernetes that is stable and committed to passing Kubernetes tests. Supports running any OCI-compliant container pulled from any registry.
CRI-O pricing
We don't have CRI-O's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What CRI-O does
The capabilities that matter for container orchestration tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Orchestration scope
- Kubernetes
- Hosting
- Self-hosted only
- OCI / CRI compliant
- ✓
- CNCF Certified Kubernetes conformant
- -
- Rootless operation
- -
- Daemonless architecture
- ✗
- Windows containers
- -
- ARM architecture support
- -
- GPU scheduling
- -
- Stateful workloads
- -
- Built-in networking / CNI
- -
- Vendor-managed control plane
- -
- CNCF maturity
- -
- GUI dashboard
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Linux
- Self-hosted
CRI-O alternatives
Other container orchestration tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for CRI-O, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 100 | 8.00 | 800.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 12.00 | 346.9 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 22.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing Transparency | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.