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Spoiler: Maester is free. Wherever you run it.

Our mission is to make security testing open, reusable and available to everyone.

So every check, every pack and the full report are free and open source. Run Maester on your desktop, in GitHub Actions or in your own automation. When you want it run for you, there's Maester Cloud.

Your desktop

Freeforever

Run it on your own machine.

Install the module, connect to your tenant and get the full report in one run. Windows, macOS and Linux.

  • 1,256 core checks and the full HTML report
  • CIS, CISA SCuBA, Zero Trust Assessment, ASD Essential Eight and more
  • 670 more checks in community packs, and checks you write yourself
  • Your data never leaves your machine
  • Community support on Discord and GitHub
  • Open source under the MIT licence

Free, and staying free. Read the Maester Manifesto.

Install Maester

GitHub Actions and automation

Freeforever

Run it every day in your own pipeline.

GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Azure Automation, Azure Container Apps, GitLab or Bitbucket: Maester runs on a schedule wherever PowerShell does.

  • Daily runs on a schedule you set
  • Templates, Bicep and Terraform deployments
  • Email, Teams and Slack alerts when a check fails
  • A report kept with every run
  • Many tenants from one layered configuration
  • Your schedule, your storage

Free, and staying free. Read the Maester Manifesto.

Set up automation

Maester Cloud

From$99/ month

Hosted for you, or self-hosted in your own Azure.

Maester Cloud does the running for you, with nothing to script or schedule. Pick the hosted option and we run it for you, or self-host it in your own Azure subscription.

  • Run history and drift detection for every tenant
  • Track each finding through to resolution
  • Alerts when something changes
  • Your data kept isolated, in the Azure region you choose
  • Formal support
  • Maester MCP, and more

Your subscription funds open-source Maester, free for everyone.

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