Self-hosting gives you full control over where your data lives. If your clients require data sovereignty, your team works in air-gapped or restricted-network environments, or you need provable audit trails under your own infrastructure, a cloud SaaS platform can't meet those requirements.

Dradis runs on your servers, your cloud, or even a standalone laptop — no vendor cloud dependency.

Yes. Dradis can be deployed on a standalone laptop or local server and used entirely offline. This is essential for teams working in air-gapped facilities, secure client sites, or environments with limited connectivity.

You get the same reporting, collaboration, and evidence management features whether you're online or off.

No. Dradis ships as a virtual appliance with officially supported images for VMware, AWS, and Azure. Our team handles template conversion, configuration, and training during onboarding.

Updates are released regularly and can be applied on your schedule. Most teams are up and running within 1–2 weeks.

Because Dradis is self-hosted, your pentest data — findings, evidence, and reports — never leaves your infrastructure.

You control access with role-based permissions, maintain audit logs under your policies, and can demonstrate provable data handling to clients and auditors without relying on a vendor's compliance posture.

Not at all. Dradis is a multi-user platform with real-time collaboration, shared issue libraries, and built-in QA workflows — the same features you'd expect from a cloud tool.

The difference is that everything runs on your infrastructure instead of a vendor's servers.

Yes — because there is no cloud version. Dradis was designed from the ground up as a self-hosted platform. 100% of our features work in every deployment: on-premises, private cloud, air-gapped, or on a laptop.

Unlike other vendors that offer self-hosting as a secondary option with limited functionality, there's no feature gap in Dradis. Every user gets the full platform.