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Open-source operating system for enterprises

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: October 2025

Red Hat Enterprise Linux overview

What is Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an open-source operating system designed to help businesses across multiple industries deploy workloads, applications, and services on a secure foundation. It offers Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and mandatory access controls (MAC), which enable enterprises to ensure compliance with various regulations.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux minimizes cases of workload interruptions caused by OS updates and lets organizations create health checks for applications, services, and programs using the Greenboot framework. Information technology (IT) teams can also create custom rpm-ostree images, configure OS content according to requirements and deploy them across on-premise, cloud, or container environments and physical or virtual machines.

The Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) and Common Criteria-certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports various applications, databases, independent software vendor (ISV) offerings, and machine learning workloads.

Starting price

99flat rate /
per year

Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux reviews

Overall rating

4.5

/5

24

Positive reviews

88

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.5/10
Rating distribution

5

4

3

2

1

16

5

3

0

0

Pros
“Using RHEL has been an amazing journey. This is extremely one of the best Softwares for organizations who need are in need of security and best usability.”
MR

Mbonjo R.

Network Engineer

“Best and outstanding Enterprise operating system for Businesses and Organizations.”
MR

Mbonjo R.

Network Engineer

“What I like most about this distribution is how stable it can be once implemented.”
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Jonathan A.

IT infrastructure analyst

Cons
“I have faced OS Stuck (Lack) issues many times. Faced the lacking issue same more time while uninstalling any Program or services.”
rJ

rahul J.

Junior technical Associate

“Is it a bit expensive for a small business and is it difficult to administrate by a beginner in Linux system administrator.”
GC

George C.

CAE Engineer

“Many functions are still command-line based which makes dealing with it by Linux beginners a bit hard.”
MS

Maha S.

Assistant Professor

Who uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Based on 24 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Information Technology and Services
Computer & Network Security
Computer Software
Education Management
Others

Use cases

Operating Systems

Red Hat Enterprise Linux's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Red Hat Enterprise Linux users:

Data security
File management
System updates
Memory management
Kernels
App management

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux features

Features rating:

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User interface
For developers

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux pricing

Value for money rating:

Starting from

99

Per year

Flat Rate

Pricing details
Subscription
Free trial
Free plan
Pricing range

User opinions about Red Hat Enterprise Linux price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Red Hat Enterprise Linux's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“Using RHEL has been an amazing journey. This is extremely one of the best Softwares for organizations who need are in need of security and best usability.”
MR

Mbonjo R.

Network Engineer

“Best and outstanding Enterprise operating system for Businesses and Organizations.”
MR

Mbonjo R.

Network Engineer

Red Hat Enterprise Linux support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Red Hat Enterprise Linux FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Red Hat Enterprise Linux offer?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $99.00/year
Pricing model: Subscription, Open Source


Q. Who are the typical users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. What languages does Red Hat Enterprise Linux support?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux offer an API?

No, Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not have an API available.

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