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trivy vs Terrateam
trivy has 37,961 GitHub stars, 691 forks, 269 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Terrateam has 1,281 stars, 74 forks, 110 open issues and last shipped yesterday. trivy leads on adoption by 2,863% (37,961 vs 1,281 stars). trivy is written in Go under Apache-2.0; Terrateam is written in OCaml under MPL-2.0. trivy has attracted 2% as many forks as stars, Terrateam 6%. Terrateam was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (infrastructure-as-code), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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Side by side
| trivy | Terrateam | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 38K | ★ 1.3K |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MPL-2.0 |
| Written in | Go | OCaml |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 691 | ⑂ 74 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick trivy if
- You weight community size — 38K stars and counting
- You want the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Terrateam if
- You want the Terrateam feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MPL-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches OCaml
- You evaluated both and Terrateam fits your workflow better
About trivy
Trivy is an open source security scanner written in Go and released under the Apache 2.0 license. It is an Aqua Security open source project, hosted at trivy.dev, and it lives in the cloud native and DevSecOps ecosystem alongside container runtimes, Kubernetes clusters, and infrastructure as code tooling. The design separates two ideas: scanners, which describe the classes of security issue Trivy looks for, and targets, which describe where it looks. The README presents the project as a comprehensive and versatile scanner, and the topic list — containers, devsecops, docker, iac, infrastructure as code, kubernetes…
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About Terrateam
Terrateam is a GitOps orchestration project for infrastructure as code. It is written in OCaml, released under the MPL 2.0 license, and listed under Infrastructure & Operations / Cloud Infrastructure Management. The project lives in the Terraform, OpenTofu, GitHub, GitLab, DevOps automation, and cloud infrastructure management ecosystem. Its README describes a pull request workflow for planning, reviewing, and applying infrastructure changes, and it states that Terrateam and Stategraph have merged into one platform during a gradual transition.
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Frequently asked questions
Is trivy or Terrateam more popular?
trivy has 37,961 GitHub stars and Terrateam has 1,281. trivy has the larger community by that measure.
Are trivy and Terrateam free?
Both are open source. trivy is licensed under Apache-2.0 and Terrateam under MPL-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between trivy and Terrateam?
trivy is written in Go and Terrateam in OCaml. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, trivy or Terrateam?
Choose trivy if you want the larger community (37,961 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose Terrateam if its feature set, stack or MPL-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.