# Reconmap alternative: open-source pentest manager or full platform?

> An honest comparison of Reconmap and Tandera. Reconmap is a capable open-source pentest collaboration and reporting tool; Tandera runs automated recon-to-retest. Which fits depends on your budget and where your workflow breaks.

Reconmap is an open-source platform for managing security assessments: organise projects and tasks, keep findings in one place, run and record commands, and generate reports. It is self-hostable and free, and for a small team or an individual consultant who wants structure around engagements without a commercial licence, it is a genuinely useful starting point.

Tandera and Reconmap share the goal of putting an engagement in one place, and differ in scope and in how much is automated. This page is about that, honestly.

## What Reconmap is built to do

Reconmap gives you a free, self-hosted home for assessment projects: task and project management, a findings repository, command execution and logging, and report generation. Its appeal is being open source and lightweight — you can stand it up, keep your engagement organised, and produce a report, at zero licence cost.

For a solo tester or small team whose alternative is spreadsheets and a Word template, Reconmap is a clear step up and costs nothing but the hosting.

## Where the difference sits

Reconmap organises the engagement and helps you record it. Tandera automates more of the testing side and extends further into client delivery:

- **Automated recon.** Reconmap helps you run and log your commands; Tandera schedules recon flows that map the attack surface and open findings automatically.
- **Deduplication and attack-path synthesis across 120+ tools.** Consolidating findings in one place is not the same as automatically resolving duplicates across tools and correlating them into attack paths.
- **White-label client delivery and retest.** Branded PDF/PPTX and a client portal for remediation and retest are a delivery surface beyond report generation.

None of this makes Reconmap the wrong tool — it makes it a different point on the scale between "free and self-managed" and "automated and client-facing."

## What Tandera is built to do

Tandera runs the lifecycle: automated recon that opens findings, importers from 120+ tools with automatic deduplication, attack-path synthesis, white-label reporting, and a client portal for retest and remediation, on one record.

## When Reconmap is the right call

If you want a free, open-source, self-hosted way to bring order to your engagements, and you are content to run recon yourself and handle client delivery your own way, Reconmap is a solid choice — especially for solo consultants and small teams watching cost.

Tandera fits teams that want the recon automated, the deduplication and attack-path synthesis done for them, and a white-label client lifecycle built in — and for whom that saved time is worth more than a zero licence cost. Where your workflow breaks decides which side of that line you are on.

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