Dethernety vs OWASP Threat Dragon

Dethernety is an open-source threat modeling platform that represents architecture as a graph for building and analyzing system models. Teams can create and explore models in a browser, from code, or from reports. Analysis follows the architecture graph to examine attack paths, blast radius, and residual risk. Exposures map to MITRE ATT&CK techniques and controls to D3FEND countermeasures for coverage-gap analysis. The platform has JavaScript and TypeScript modules for design, analysis, and issues, plus an OPA/Rego policy engine. Issue modules can connect to external trackers and synchronize remediation work in both directions. Users host their own graph database, with Neo4j and Memgraph listed as options. Analysis can use deterministic queries, single-agent AI acceleration, or multi-agent LangGraph workflows. The open-source edition runs on user-controlled infrastructure and can operate fully offline without cloud calls. The maker says models, data, and findings remain on that infrastructure, and that there is no background telemetry or usage-data transmission. The GUI is aimed at security teams; the CLI supports DevOps, CI/CD automation, and threat-model-as-code. Open Source is free; Enterprise is self-hosted with contract pricing and dedicated support.

OWASP Threat Dragon creates threat-model diagrams and records threats associated with diagram elements as part of a secure development lifecycle. Diagrams can represent processes, data stores, actors, data flows and trust boundaries. It supports STRIDE, LINDDUN, CIA, CIA-DIE, DIE and PLOT4ai threat categories. A rule engine can propose threats and mitigations based on properties of diagram elements. Threat Dragon can run as a containerized, self-hosted web application or as a desktop app with installers for Windows, macOS and Linux. The web app supports local file storage and configurable access to GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, Google Drive, Bitbucket, Bitbucket Enterprise and GitLab; the desktop app saves models locally. The project lists Apache License 2.0. Analytics are disabled by default and require server configuration. The project is volunteer-maintained and notes that immediate investigation or response to incidents is not always possible. Threat Dragon is listed at free, with no paid plans or usage limits stated.