SysReptor designs reports in HTML, renders them to PDF and does not export Word files, documents no client portal, keeps review statuses, imports of scanner output and Jira export to Professional, and its free Community edition is source-available rather than open source. Pental fills your own Word template, gives every client a white-labelled portal, includes every feature at any size, and its reporting on its own is free and open source under the AGPL-3.0. Here is the comparison, from each one’s own published information.
Each of SysReptor's answers is taken from its own website or documentation, and each of Pental's from the screens it describes. Where SysReptor's documentation does not cover something, the line says so rather than guessing.
| Compared | Pental | SysReptor |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Penetration testing firms of every size, with every feature at any size: the Portal priced per tester, the rate falling as a team grows, and our free, open-source reporting tool for a firm that wants only the reporting. | Penetration testers, red teamers and other security professionals, with a free, fully functional edition aimed at freelancers and small teams. |
| Hosting and data | The Portal: Pental runs the software and your firm holds the data, in its own Postgres database: in your own cloud, on a server of yours or on Supabase Cloud, where Pental cannot read your findings. The free reporting tool runs on your own server, beside its own PostgreSQL. | Self-hosted with Docker on your own server, or SysReptor Cloud, run by Syslifters in Germany with backups in Austria, and Cloud data kept within the EU. |
| Client portal | A standing account for each client with every report, finding, retest outcome and attestation letter. Findings arrive when you release them, and questions are raised on the finding. | No client portal is documented. A note, including one carrying the report PDF, can be shared by a public link with a password and an expiry. |
| Your brand | Your own domain with TLS issued automatically, your sign-in page, email from your own address, and no Pental branding anywhere. | Report designs without restriction, and interface themes per instance. Your own domain on Cloud by arrangement. |
| Report templates | Your own Word template, with your cover page, headers, fonts, tables and appendices, or the built-in PDF. The same engagement renders the same file every time. | Report designs written in HTML, rendered to PDF. SysReptor does not export Word files. |
| Editing the report in Word | Upload the edited report and the assessment updates to match, item by item, only where you tick. A reviewer’s tracked changes arrive as suggested edits. | Does not apply, as SysReptor does not export Word files. |
| AI | Your own key with OpenAI, Anthropic or Groq, or a model on your own hardware through Ollama or any compatible endpoint. Every prompt can be read and rewritten. | An AI agent bound to the current project: a read-only Ask mode, and full write access in Agent mode on Professional, using a cloud provider you configure or a self-hosted model. |
| QA review | Draft, in review and approved, with suggested edits made on the field itself, the firm’s own QA checklist ticked before a report can be approved, an AI reviewer if the firm turns it on, and release waiting for approval. | Review statuses, from in progress through ready for review to finished, on Professional. |
| Retests | Clients ask from the finding they are reading, or by closing a ticket in their own tracker. Every finding is tracked as fixed, still open or newly introduced. | Re-test notes written in the project, or in a copy of it, with a re-test status set on each finding. |
| CVSS | CVSS 3.1 or 4.0, with the vector derived as you choose the metrics. | CVSS 3.1 and 4.0. |
| Findings library | Write-ups saved once and reused with their scoring and remediation intact. | Finding templates. |
| Issue trackers | Clients connect their own Jira (Cloud or Data Center), ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab or Linear, and the ticket’s state is read back; any other system can take findings by webhook. | Jira export, on Professional. |
| Importing tool output | Sixteen formats imported as findings, including Nessus, Burp Suite, OpenVAS, Qualys, Nmap, ZAP, Nuclei and SARIF. | Imports from Burp Suite, Nessus, Nmap, OpenVAS, Qualys, ZAP and others, on Professional. |
| Pricing | Published: the Portal is £75 a tester a month for one ($99), falling with every tester added, with every feature included. Our reporting tool, the reporting on its own, is free and open source under the AGPL-3.0. | Community is free to self-host; Professional is paid per user, and SysReptor’s documentation lists it at €50 per user a month. |
| Trying it | A free trial of the Portal with no card required, whose days start when your portal goes live. The reporting tool is free to download and run. | Community free to host yourself, and a trial on request. |
Facts about SysReptor come from SysReptor’s own documentation, its public source code, changelog and licence, and its Cloud terms of service, read on 28 October 2026. Products change: if anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it. Product names are the trademarks of their owners, and Pental is not affiliated with any of them.
SysReptor reports are designed in HTML, written in Markdown and rendered to PDF, and SysReptor does not export Word files. Pental fills your own Word template, with your cover page, headers, fonts and tables, or renders its built-in PDF from your branding, and reads an edited Word report back into the assessment.
SysReptor documents no client portal: a note, including one with the report PDF attached, can be shared by a public link that has a password and an expiry. Pental gives each client a standing, white-labelled portal account with every report, finding, retest outcome and attestation letter, and findings arrive when you release them.
SysReptor Community is free to host under the SysReptor Community License, which makes it source-available rather than open source. Pental’s free reporting tool is open source under the GNU AGPL-3.0, and installs on your own server with one command.
SysReptor keeps review statuses, imports of scanner output and Jira export to Professional, paid per user. Pental’s Portal includes QA review, sixteen import formats and two-way issue trackers for every tester.
A SysReptor project archive (.tar.gz, images included) or its JSON goes in Coming from another platform, under Settings, Data. Pental reads it, shows you the mapping with real values from your own data beside each field, and lets you correct it before a single row is written. Your engagements and findings come across, with their screenshots.
Pental fits a testing firm that wants its clients' findings in a database of its own, reports in its own Word template, a client portal under its own name and AI on its own key, with every feature included. See the pricing, or see the platform. For the reporting on its own, our free, open-source reporting tool runs on your own server.
The report and the client. SysReptor designs reports in HTML and renders them to PDF, and does not export Word files; Pental fills your own Word template, or its built-in PDF, and reads an edited Word report back. SysReptor documents no client portal, and Pental’s Portal is a white-labelled one.
SysReptor Community is free to host yourself, under the SysReptor Community License, which makes it source-available rather than open source. Professional, self-hosted or on SysReptor Cloud, is paid per user.
Pental’s reporting on its own is: free and open source under the GNU AGPL-3.0, installed on your own server with one command, with your fields, AI on your own key, the built-in PDF and your Word templates. The Portal, with the client portal and QA, is run for you and priced per tester.
In Germany, on servers at Hetzner, with backups in Austria, and Syslifters says no Cloud customer data leaves the EU. With Pental the database is your own, in whichever region your own cloud or server is in.
Yes. The built-in PDF is editable from your branding, fonts, logo, colours and layout, with nothing to upload, and your own Word template is the other route.
A SysReptor project archive (.tar.gz, images included) or its JSON goes in Coming from another platform, under Settings, Data. Pental reads it, shows you the mapping with real values from your own data beside each field, and lets you correct it before a single row is written. Your engagements and findings come across, with their screenshots.
Set up your own database, upload your own Word template and take a real engagement through it, client portal and all. A free trial of the whole Portal, no card required, and its days start when your portal goes live.