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Freemium

Free Community edition, with a commercial Enterprise edition.

 Free

Free and open source.

Linux, Self-hosted, Command line Linux, Self-hosted, Command line
  • Lightweight agent suited to large fleets
  • Configuration drift prevention and compliance reporting
  • Large set of integrated Ansible roles for common services
  • Scales from one host to a whole data center
  • Own policy language to learn
  • Web UI and reporting belong to the Enterprise edition
  • Limited to Debian and Ubuntu hosts
  • Requires familiarity with Ansible
Downloadable app, Self-hosted Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License not stated License: GPL-3.0
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 24, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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