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Purple Knight vs BloodHound Community Edition: catalog facts
Purple KnightBloodHound Community Edition
Free

The Community edition is free to download from Semperis.

Freemium

The Community Edition is free and open source. BloodHound Enterprise is paid.

Windows Windows, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
  • Covers on-premises AD, Entra ID and Okta in one assessment
  • More than 230 indicators of exposure and compromise
  • Turns abstract directory permissions into concrete, visible attack paths
  • Used by defenders to close paths as much as by testers to find them
  • Closed source
  • Assessment tool only; it does not fix issues itself
  • Collection requires directory access and should be run only with authorisation
  • The graph database stack takes real setup effort
Downloadable app Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Closed source Open source
License not stated License not stated
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

Checked September 23, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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