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Citrix vs AVD: What Citrix users need to know

Frustrated with rising Citrix costs, rigid contracts, and unreliable support? You're not alone. But is Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) a better fit?

Download our free guide to compare costs, features, performance, and management and how to transition seamlessly.

With Nerdio, you can:

  • Eliminate confusing Citrix licensing and reduce total cost of ownership

  • Automate image & application management from within Nerdio

  • Scale with Azure natively — no more overprovisioning

  • Avoid common missteps and surprises during migration

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Scale on your terms, not Citrix’s

With Nerdio Manager, organizations gain the flexibility to scale on their terms, streamline daily operations through intelligent automation, and maintain full control over cloud costs. It’s a modern solution built for efficiency—delivering enterprise-grade performance without the complexity or expense of traditional VDI platforms like Citrix.

Control costs

Nerdio offers a more cost-effective approach to cloud VDI by reducing infrastructure overhead, automating resource scaling, and removing the complexity of Citrix licensing. With Nerdio, you pay only for what you use—giving you predictable costs and full control over your cloud spend.

Flexible terms

Nerdio offers flexible deployment and licensing options that adapt to your organization’s needs—unlike Citrix’s rigid, legacy models. Whether you're scaling up or down, Nerdio lets you stay agile without being locked into long-term contracts or complex licensing agreements.

Operational efficiency

Nerdio streamlines virtual desktop management with powerful automation, intuitive workflows, and native integration with Microsoft tools—eliminating the complexity and manual effort often required with Citrix.

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CUSTOMER STORY

Teleperformance makes the switch

Garion Brown, Global VP of Platform Engineering at Teleperformance, shares how moving from Citrix to AVD with Nerdio transformed their operations—boosting efficiency, simplifying management, and delivering greater control over their cloud infrastructure.

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What our customers are saying

Top-notch software that gets better!

"Moving from Citrix to AVD + Nerdio has saved us ~$30k per year, plus even more in staff costs for wasting our time doing gold image updates."

Helped us get started with AVD

"With Nerdio, we were deploying desktops immediately, using familiar concepts for those of us coming from a Citrix or Horizon admin background."

You need this if you use AVD

"Without Nerdio Manager, we would never have completed our migration from Citrix to AVD as quickly."

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