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OpenVASQualys Community Edition
Free

The Community Edition is free and open source. Greenbone enterprise products are paid.

 Freemium

The Community Edition is free for a limited number of IPs, and the full Qualys platform is…

Linux, Self-hosted Web
  • Large community vulnerability feed with authenticated scanning
  • Scheduling, reporting and tracking included rather than bolted on
  • Vulnerability assessment and asset discovery in one cloud console
  • Includes compliance checks and web application monitoring
  • The community feed lags the paid enterprise feed
  • Installation and feed synchronisation are involved
  • Free edition is limited to a small number of IPs
  • Cloud-hosted, so scan data is stored with Qualys
Self-hosted Web application, Hosted service
Open source Closed source
License: GPL-2.0 License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed Account needed
Not stated if it works offline Needs internet

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked September 23, 2026

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