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Qualys Community Edition vs OpenVAS: catalog facts
Qualys Community Edition	OpenVAS
Freemium The Community Edition is free for a limited number of IPs, and the full Qualys platform is…	Free The Community Edition is free and open source. Greenbone enterprise products are paid.
Web	Linux, Self-hosted
Vulnerability assessment and asset discovery in one cloud console Includes compliance checks and web application monitoring	Large community vulnerability feed with authenticated scanning Scheduling, reporting and tracking included rather than bolted on
Free edition is limited to a small number of IPs Cloud-hosted, so scan data is stored with Qualys	The community feed lags the paid enterprise feed Installation and feed synchronisation are involved
Web application, Hosted service	Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-2.0
Account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Needs internet	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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