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Dependency-Check vs Dependency-Track: catalog facts
Dependency-Check	Dependency-Track
Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…	Free The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Self-hosted, Web
It matches dependencies to CPE identifiers and reports the linked CVEs, and it plugs into Maven, Gradle, Jenkins…	Centralizes dependency inventories and vulnerability analysis.
CPE matching produces false positives and misses, and it needs an NVD API key and a long initial…	Needs accurate, regularly updated component inventories.
Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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