Is Mautic or Trivy better?

Neither clearly leads. Mautic starts at Free and Trivy at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Mautic or Trivy?

Mautic starts at Free and Trivy at Free.

Does Mautic or Trivy run on more platforms?

Mautic runs on Web, Linux, Self-hosted, Docker. Trivy runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes.

Can I use Mautic for free?

Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.

What is Mautic best used for?

Mautic is most often used for a marketing agency running automation for many clients that cannot pass on per-contact saas pricing at scale, a european university or public body whose data protection position requires contact data to stay on infrastructure it controls, a company with a list of several hundred thousand contacts where saas per-contact pricing has become the largest line in the marketing budget, a team that needs to modify the automation logic itself, not just configure it, and wants source access to do so. Of those, a marketing agency running automation for many clients that cannot pass on per-contact saas pricing at scale and a european university or public body whose data protection position requires contact data to stay on infrastructure it controls are not what Trivy is typically brought in for.

What can Mautic do that Trivy cannot?

Mautic covers Visual campaign builder, Contact management and segmentation, Landing pages and forms, Lead scoring. Trivy covers Multi-target scanning, Vulnerability detection, Misconfiguration checks, Secret detection.

Marketing · head to head

Mautic vs Trivy

Mautic

Marketing

The main open source marketing automation platform, self-hosted and GPL licensed

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

Trivy

Cybersecurity

Open-source vulnerability and misconfiguration scanner

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Mautic mautic depends on reliably scheduled cron jobs to process segments and send campaigns, and a misconfigured or silently failing schedule stops sends without an obvious error, which is the most common way Mautic deployments fail in production.; Trivy reports what public advisory databases know, so coverage varies by ecosystem and unfixed CVEs create noise
They diverge on capability: Mautic covers Visual campaign builder, Trivy covers Multi-target scanning.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Mautic and Trivy actually diverge.

Attributes where Mautic and Trivy differ
Attribute	Mautic	Trivy
Platforms	Web, Linux, Self-hosted, Docker	Linux, macOS, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes
Category	Marketing	Cybersecurity

Identical on both: starting price (Free), pricing model (Open source, no licence fee), free tier (Yes), user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Mautic

Visual campaign builder
Contact management and segmentation
Landing pages and forms
Lead scoring
Dynamic web content
Email builder and A/B testing
Self-hosted data control
No feature gating

Only in Trivy

Multi-target scanning
Vulnerability detection
Misconfiguration checks
Secret detection

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Mautic

A marketing agency running automation for many clients that cannot pass on per-contact SaaS pricing at scalenot Trivy
A European university or public body whose data protection position requires contact data to stay on infrastructure it controlsnot Trivy
A company with a list of several hundred thousand contacts where SaaS per-contact pricing has become the largest line in the marketing budgetnot Trivy
A team that needs to modify the automation logic itself, not just configure it, and wants source access to do sonot Trivy

Trivy

Failing a pull request when a container image introduces a known CVEnot Mautic
Scanning Terraform and Kubernetes manifests for misconfiguration before applynot Mautic
Catching committed secrets as part of an existing CI stepnot Mautic

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Mautic

Mautic depends on reliably scheduled cron jobs to process segments and send campaigns, and a misconfigured or silently failing schedule stops sends without an obvious error, which is the most common way Mautic deployments fail in production.
Email sending is not included: you must arrange, pay for and warm up your own sending infrastructure through Amazon SES, SendGrid or similar, and deliverability problems become entirely your problem with no vendor to escalate to.
Acquia owns the commercial descendant, Campaign Studio, and is the largest contributor, so the loudest commercial interest in the ecosystem benefits from a hosted product rather than from the self-hosted one being easy.
Upgrades between major versions have historically been disruptive, requiring database migrations and plugin compatibility checks, so a neglected instance can become expensive to bring current.
The interface and the reporting are noticeably behind commercial platforms, so marketing teams that came from HubSpot or ActiveCampaign will find everyday tasks slower and will need training.

Trivy

Reports what public advisory databases know, so coverage varies by ecosystem and unfixed CVEs create noise
No built-in triage or exception workflow, so suppressing accepted risk is managed in config files
Findings are point-in-time from CI, with no continuous runtime monitoring unless you add the commercial platform

Pricing, plan by plan

Mautic

Free

Self-hosted communityFree
- GPL licensed, no licence fee and no contact limits
- All features included, no paid edition
- You provide hosting, database, cron scheduling and email sending
Managed Mautic hosting$undefined/month
- Third-party managed hosting listed by the project
- Updates, backups and cron scheduling handled for you
- Pricing varies by provider and is not set by the project

Trivy

Free

TrivyFree
- Full scanner
- Unlimited scans
- Community support

Which should you pick?

Choose Mautic if

You need visual campaign builder.
You want to start without paying.
You work on Web, Linux, Self-hosted, Docker.
You also want contact management and segmentation.

Mautic review

Choose Trivy if

You need multi-target scanning.
You want to start without paying.
You work on Linux, macOS, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes.
You also want vulnerability detection.

Trivy review

Questions people ask

Is Mautic or Trivy better?: Neither clearly leads. Mautic starts at Free and Trivy at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Mautic or Trivy?: Mautic starts at Free and Trivy at Free.
Does Mautic or Trivy run on more platforms?: Mautic runs on Web, Linux, Self-hosted, Docker. Trivy runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes.
Can I use Mautic for free?: Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
What is Mautic best used for?: Mautic is most often used for a marketing agency running automation for many clients that cannot pass on per-contact saas pricing at scale, a european university or public body whose data protection position requires contact data to stay on infrastructure it controls, a company with a list of several hundred thousand contacts where saas per-contact pricing has become the largest line in the marketing budget, a team that needs to modify the automation logic itself, not just configure it, and wants source access to do so. Of those, a marketing agency running automation for many clients that cannot pass on per-contact saas pricing at scale and a european university or public body whose data protection position requires contact data to stay on infrastructure it controls are not what Trivy is typically brought in for.
What can Mautic do that Trivy cannot?: Mautic covers Visual campaign builder, Contact management and segmentation, Landing pages and forms, Lead scoring. Trivy covers Multi-target scanning, Vulnerability detection, Misconfiguration checks, Secret detection.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Mautic: Is Mautic free?

Yes, GPL licensed with no licence fee and no contact limits. You pay for hosting, email sending and the staff time to maintain it.

Trivy: Is Trivy free?

Yes, open source from Aqua Security with no licence fee. Aqua sells a commercial platform around it.

Mautic: Does Acquia own Mautic?

Acquia acquired the founding commercial entity in 2019 and sells Campaign Studio built on it, but the Mautic trademark sits with the Open Source Collective and the project is community governed.

Trivy: What can Trivy scan?

Container images, filesystems, Git repositories, Kubernetes clusters and infrastructure-as-code, for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets and licences.

Mautic: What breaks most often?

Cron scheduling. If segment rebuilding and campaign triggers are not running on schedule, campaigns quietly stop sending with no alert.

Trivy: Does Trivy need a server?

No. It is a single binary, which is a large part of why it became a default in CI.

Mautic: Can it handle large contact lists?

Yes, but performance at several hundred thousand contacts depends on database tuning and queue configuration, which is work you must do yourself.

Mautic vs Trivy

Mautic

Trivy

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Mautic

Only in Trivy

What people use each for

Mautic

Trivy

Where each one falls short

Mautic

Trivy

Pricing, plan by plan

Mautic

Trivy

Which should you pick?

Choose Mautic if

Choose Trivy if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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