# Canonical MAAS vs Liquid Web Dedicated Servers

| Attribute | Canonical MAAS | Liquid Web Dedicated Servers |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 41.5 (18% (low)) | 40 (6% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 92 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 148 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | - |
| description.long | An open source system that automates deployment and administration of physical servers, offering programmatic control through APIs and integration with infrastructure-as-code tools. | - |
| integrations.count | 7 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"Juju"},{"name":"Ansible"},{"name":"LDAP"},{"name":"Active Directory"},{"name":"SAML"},{"name":"Ubuntu Pro"}]` | - |
| language.primary | HTML | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://maas.io/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T22:06:47.440Z"}` | - |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | - |
| pricing.transparent | no | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |

## Capabilities (Bare Metal Hosting)

| Capability | Canonical MAAS | Liquid Web Dedicated Servers |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Provisioning speed | - | - |
| Billing unit | - | - |
| GPU bare metal | - | - |
| Private networking vlan | - | - |
| Ddos protection included | - | - |
| Oob management | - | - |
| Custom os pxe | - | - |
| K8s cluster API provider | - | - |
| Terraform iac provider | - | - |
| Datacenter regions | - | - |
| Nvme storage | - | - |
| HIPAA eligible | - | - |
| Open source self hostable | - | - |
| Pricing model | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:46:41.456Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*