NVIDIA Infra Controller vs Tengan

NVIDIA Infra Controller8.6Visit Tengan8.5Visit

Higher score NVIDIA Infra Controller #7 in Bare Metal Provisioning Software 8.6/10 Open source ✓ 7 of 7 features Visit NVIDIA

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Tengan #8 in Bare Metal Provisioning Software 8.5/10 Pricing on request ✓ 7 of 7 features Visit Tengan

• NVIDIA Infra Controller fits best

  GPU and DPU infrastructure operators

• Tengan fits best

  Teams needing KVM, provisioning, and rack operations

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Side by side

Feature	NVIDIA Infra Controller 8.6/10 Visit ↗	Tengan 8.5/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.6	8.5
Ranking	#7 in Bare Metal Provisioning Software	#8 in Bare Metal Provisioning Software
Best for	GPU and DPU infrastructure operators	Teams needing KVM, provisioning, and rack operations
Pricing model	Free	Paid
Starting price	Open source	Pricing on request
Free plan	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Support	Docs	Email, Docs
Integrations	9 integrations	10 integrations
Built for	Mid-market, Enterprise	Mid-market, Enterprise
Features NVIDIA Infra Controller 7/7 · Tengan 7/7
Bare-metal discovery	✓	✓
OS image deployment	✓	✓
PXE bootstrapping	✓	✓
Lifecycle management	✓	✓
Hardware inventory	✓	✓
API access	✓	✓
Out-of-band management	✓	✓
Our review
Pros	Covers discovery, validation, firmware, provisioning, monitoring, and sanitization Supports BlueField DPU OS, networking, firmware, PXE/iPXE, and tenant OS images Offers REST, gRPC, and CLI access with broad infrastructure integrations	BIOS-level browser KVM with session recording and playback PXE, ISO, and Kickstart deployment across multiple nodes Discovery, telemetry, IPAM, firmware rollout, and audit controls
Cons	More specialized than general-purpose bare-metal provisioning platforms Requires a Kubernetes-based control plane Its scope is centered on NVIDIA AI infrastructure operations	Contact-sales pricing provides no plan-by-plan buying detail Self-hosted deployment requires infrastructure ownership Not open source and focused on enterprise infrastructure teams
Our verdict	NVIDIA Infra Controller (NICo) is an open-source suite of microservices for site-local, zero-trust bare-metal lifecycle management. It is designed for NVIDIA Cloud Partners and infrastructure operators managing AI factory-scale… Read the review →	Tengan is an on-premise data center command platform from ePathra Solutions for infrastructure teams, colocation providers, managed-service providers, and enterprises. It brings together browser-based KVM access down to the BIOS,… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• NVIDIA Infra Controller — where it wins

  • Covers discovery, validation, firmware, provisioning, monitoring, and sanitization
  • Supports BlueField DPU OS, networking, firmware, PXE/iPXE, and tenant OS images
  • Offers REST, gRPC, and CLI access with broad infrastructure integrations

  Where it doesn't

  • More specialized than general-purpose bare-metal provisioning platforms
  • Requires a Kubernetes-based control plane
  • Its scope is centered on NVIDIA AI infrastructure operations

• Tengan — where it wins

  • BIOS-level browser KVM with session recording and playback
  • PXE, ISO, and Kickstart deployment across multiple nodes
  • Discovery, telemetry, IPAM, firmware rollout, and audit controls

  Where it doesn't

  • Contact-sales pricing provides no plan-by-plan buying detail
  • Self-hosted deployment requires infrastructure ownership
  • Not open source and focused on enterprise infrastructure teams

• NVIDIA Infra Controller8.6/10 · Open source

  A specialized Kubernetes-based control plane for provisioning and operating GPU and DPU infrastructure.

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• Tengan8.5/10 · Pricing on request

  A self-hosted data center command platform for KVM, provisioning, and rack operations.

  Visit TenganFull verdict →