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24 alternatives to Self-hosted VirusTotal-like for scanning files by multiple sandboxed AV

Self-hosted VirusTotal / MetaDefender wannabe with API, demo UI and Scanners running in Docker. - volodymyrsmirnov/MalwareMultiScan

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Self-hosted VirusTotal-like for scanning files by multiple sandboxed AV launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A low code platform to build internal tools

    2021 · retool.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2AS
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    Bare metal to production ready in mins; your own fly server on your VPS. - MightyMoud/sidekick

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source API development — now on-premise!

    2023 · hoppscotch.io · its alternatives →

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    Open-source SelfOps platform for containers.

    2023 · dyrector.io · its alternatives →

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    zero▲94

    One command to deploy Docker containers to your own server

    Apr 2026 · shipzero.sh · its alternatives →

  7. 7IB

    I found it odd there wasn’t a simple web tool to scan Docker Hub images for vulnerabilities. So I built one. It’s powered by the popular open-source tool Trivy.

    2023 · containercve.com · its alternatives →

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    A next-generation antivirus replacement

    2016 · malwarebytes.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm a software engineer who keeps getting pulled into DevOps no matter how hard I try to escape it. I recently moved into a Lead DevOps Engineer role writing tooling to automate a lot of the pain away. On my own time outside of work, I built Artifact Keeper — a self-hosted artifact registry that supports 45+ package formats. Security scanning, SSO, replication, WASM plugins — it's all in the MIT-licensed release. No enterprise tier. No feature gates. No surprise invoices. Your package managers — pip, npm, docker, cargo, helm, go, all of them — talk directly to it using their native…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Interactive demo: https://getcanary.dev/docs/cloud/demo Canary works with local search indexes like Pagefind too: https://getcanary.dev/docs/local/demo For both demo, you'll find small "code" tab to see actual code to build the search UI. Self-hosting guide: https://getcanary.dev/docs/cloud/self-host Would love to hear any feedback!

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Analyze suspicious files and URLs.

    2017 · virustotal.com · its alternatives →

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    A self-hosted container management platform

    2023 · app.dyrectorio.com · its alternatives →

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    Online automated vulnerability scanner to secure firewalls, servers, web applications, and apis. Try 14 days for free.

    2020 · hostedscan.com · its alternatives →

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    Seven years in the making (I admit that I did get a kid at some point which slowed down progress and brought it to a halt quite a few times), I decided to finaly release it, with a rather drastic change to the now (I believe) generous licensing model. Unlike current major players in this field, I decided to go with uncrippled, free version for commercial use for corps with up to 1M USD ARR. I poured my heart and soul into this, not because I was looking for financial success, but because I felt it just had to be done, given the price hikes wherever you look today. While my wife and kid were…

    Aug 2026 · fdeploy.com · its alternatives →

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    Our package registry ecosystem has a serious problem... and not just npm. People are aware of this but maybe this will make them a bit more aware

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This project addresses the inefficiencies of traditional Dockerfile-based container builds where each customization layer creates storage bloat through duplicate dependencies from repeated apt-get install commands, network inefficiency from redundant package downloads across different images, and slow iteration cycles requiring full rebuilds of all previous steps. Our solution enables building minimal base images from scratch using debootstrap that precisely include only required components in the initial build, while allowing creation of specialized variants (Java, Kafka, etc.) from these…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Live extension analysis: Point us at a Chrome/Edge/Firefox extension (store URL or CRX). We spin up a safe sandbox and observe it in real time—permissions use, message passing, storage writes, network calls, remote code loading, and UI injections. Package scanning: Paste an npm/package URL or code. We do quick static + dynamic checks: install/postinstall scripts, obfuscation/eval, exfil endpoints, suspicious APIs, and typosquat/reputation signals. AI explainer: An LLM summarizes the behaviors and risk patterns in plain English (why it’s risky, what to verify,…

    2025 · browsertotal.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! dyrector.io is an open-source container management platform with config & release management capabilities to your cloud, on-prem or hybrid infrastructure. You install the platform's agent to your infrastructure, add the registry you wanna deploy images from, and deploy them. We made the platform to allow people who don't know anything about containers to set them up in dozens or hundreds of deployment targets. We thought it would be an interesting use case to engineers, too, who are uninterested or don't have the time to manage deployments and container maintenance in terminals. Hope…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We are super excited to release the community edition of our product to help DevSecOps teams -- Deepfence ThreatMapper ! Deepfence is a unified platform to protect kubernetes, virtual machines and serverless workloads at runtime. We have packaged a subset of important features of the platform in this edition. Essentially, you can visualize kubernetes clusters, virtual machines and container images in real time and scan them for vulnerabilities. You can also scan an unlimited number of container images by integrating with popular registries. This community edition comes with batteries…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Open-source malware scanner and runtime guard for AI agents

    Jul 2026 · panguard.ai · its alternatives →

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    A shitty attempt at a honeypot/sandbox that uses docker - esell/dockopotamus

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    For at least a few years (since before COVID), in my circle everbody wants an AI tool that finds vulnerabilities in binaries. I have my reservations about such a tool because of my perception that AI is overhyped, so I decided to build one myself to see how useful it could be (or not). I was actually kinda surprised how well it worked for my collection of binaries with known CVEs. It definitely has false positives and negatives, as any static analysis tool would, but I think its actually somewhat usable. I dont think the results are super actionable, but interesting nonetheless. I still…

    2025 · pwnscan.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi! I am sharing this because it may be useful to others. I created a simple Docker image that lets you easily expose a web app running locally on your dev machine to the Internet, via a proxy server. It is a self hosted alternative to something like Ngrok, which is a paid service if you use custom domains. A small server is cheaper than Ngrok (I use Hetzner Cloud and the cheapest server costs me 3€ per month). I use this method in particular to test HTTP verification with Let's Encrypt for a SaaS app running on my Mac. Hope this is useful :) Code:…

    2019 · its alternatives →

  24. 24OS

    Hey Hacker News! I am madnuttah, I am a Windows/Linux Sysadmin and some folks may remember this username for "niche" mods I've made for Fallout and Skyrim and some C# UWP Windows Store Apps which I've retired because of Microsoft's unclear strategy abandoning things from one day to another. Why am I writing this? I wanted to be independent from the DNS servers of my provider, because they have often shined brightly with problems in the past instead of functioning properly, wanted to have a little bit more privacy and freedom back by fighting censorship via DNS, so I built my own Unbound…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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