Vmware Fusion For Personal Use [best] May 2026

| Feature | VMware Fusion Pro (Personal) | Parallels Desktop | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | $0 | $99/year (or $150 one-time) | | Apple Silicon Support | Excellent | Excellent (slightly faster) | | Game Performance | Good | Better (DirectX support) | | Snapshots | Yes (Free) | Pay for Pro version | | Linked Clones | Yes | No |

Subtitle: Running Windows 11 on your Mac just got $120 cheaper. The Hook For years, if you owned a Mac (especially an Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3 Mac) and needed to run a "non-Mac" app—whether it was a legacy corporate tool, a specific version of Internet Explorer for testing, or a PC-only game—you had two choices: Pay for Parallels or wrestle with open-source quirks.

Learning Kubernetes? Need to spin up three Linux servers to test a script? You can do that on your MacBook on the couch without buying cloud credits. Fusion Pro (Free) vs. Parallels ($99/year) This is the big fight.

But VMware just dropped a mic.