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Quaze and Dependency-Track

An open-source continuous SBOM analysis platform from OWASP.

Dependency-Track is a respected open-source project for continuous SBOM analysis. Quaze covers similar ground but is hosted, with release and environment modeling, ownership routing, and audit evidence built in. Here is how they compare so you can pick the right fit.

Side by side

Neutral comparison — no marketing adjectives, just what each tool does.

Dependency-Track
Quaze
Hosting model
Self-hosted (Docker, JVM)
Cloud-hosted (EU region)
Maintenance burden
You run the database, app, and updates
Managed; no infra to maintain
Upgrade cadence
Manual; on your schedule
Continuous; rolled out by Quaze
Release modeling
Projects and versions
Products, releases, and environments as first-class concepts
Environment tracking
Not modeled; use tags or projects
Built-in; track which release runs where, by date
Ownership routing
Project-level access; bring your own routing
Component-to-team mapping with scoped notifications
Audit evidence packs
Build it yourself from the API
Scheduled, CRA-aligned evidence packs
CycloneDX ingestion
Yes
Yes
SPDX ingestion
Yes (via converter)
Yes (native)
Notifications
Configurable webhooks
Scoped per product, release, or environment
Pricing model
Free (open source)
Free tier; paid plans from $99/mo
SSO
Yes (you configure)
On the roadmap for Enterprise
EU data residency
Wherever you host it
EU region by default

When Dependency-Track is the right choice

  • You require fully on-premises or air-gapped deployment.
  • Your team wants to own the database and operate it themselves.
  • Open-source licensing is a hard constraint for procurement.
  • You have spare capacity on your platform team to run another stateful service.

When teams choose Quaze

  • You want a hosted service with no infra to maintain.
  • You need to track which release runs in which environment, by date.
  • You want findings routed to the team that owns the affected component out of the box.
  • Audit evidence packs and CRA-aligned reporting matter to you.
  • EU data residency by default.

How to pick

The comparison above tries to be neutral. In practice, the choice usually comes down to two questions about your situation:

  1. Do you have the team and the appetite to run another stateful service? Dependency-Track is well documented and stable, but it is still a JVM app with a Postgres database and an upgrade cadence you own. If your platform team is already stretched, the cost of running it well is non-trivial.
  2. How much do release and environment context matter to you? Dependency-Track models projects and versions. Quaze models products, releases, and environments as first-class concepts, which makes questions like “which production deployment is on the affected version?” answerable in seconds rather than via API queries you write yourself.

If the answer to the first question is “yes, comfortably” and the answer to the second is “not much, we mostly want a list of vulnerabilities per project,” Dependency-Track is genuinely a strong fit, and it is free.

If the answer to the first is “we would rather not” and the answer to the second is “a lot — we need to know what is actually running in production right now,” Quaze is built for that shape of team.

What is not in the table

A few honest notes on things that are not easy to put in a comparison row:

  • Community. Dependency-Track has an active OWASP community and a long track record. That is genuinely valuable. Quaze is a younger commercial product; the trade-off is faster shipping and direct support, not community size.
  • Customization. Self-hosted tools can be customized in ways hosted SaaS cannot. If you need to plug Dependency-Track into a bespoke internal workflow at the database level, that flexibility is real.
  • VEX. Both tools support VEX-style determinations. Quaze treats VEX as a first-class output of the triage workflow; Dependency-Track exposes it via configuration and API.

A worked example

A new high-severity CVE is published against a transitive dependency. With either tool, you find that releases 2.3.1 and 2.4.1 reference the affected version.

With Dependency-Track, the next step is to query the API (or the UI) to find out which projects contain those releases, then cross-reference with your deployment system to figure out which environments run those releases, then send a notification to the team that owns it. The data is all there; you just have to compose the answer yourself, or build that composition into your own tooling.

With Quaze, the next step happens automatically: the affected releases are flagged, the system already knows which environments they run in (because environments are modelled), and the alert is routed to the owning team via the component-to-team mapping. The triage decision and reasoning go into the finding history, which rolls into the next scheduled evidence pack.

Both paths work. The difference is how much of the composition is built into the tool versus left for you to wire together.

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