CTFd Features

From customizable challenges to advanced team management, CTFd gives you the tools to create, run, and scale Capture The Flag competitions easily.

Customization & Control

Customize & Control Your Events

Customize challenges, themes, and game types to fit your event needs. Easily configure settings and deploy container-based challenges without complexity.

Customizable Challenges
Themes & Plugins
Game Types
Manage Users & Teams
Public Scoreboards
Skill Tracking & Analytics
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Platform Features

Powerful and Flexible

CTFd offers organizers unmatched flexibility and ongoing improvements, thanks to active development, open source contributions, and customizable plugins and themes.

Visualize Your Teams

Visualize Your Teams

With all the visualization in CTFd you'll know what's going on with just a glance.

Edit Everything

Edit Everything

With its HTML editor, you can create entire pages inside of CTFd. Need to share lots of links? Make an FAQ? A contact page? No problem.

Control Everything

Control Everything

All you need to use to run your very own Capture The Flag is a web browser. Just use the built in administration panel and say goodbye to database queries.

Add Hints

Add Hints

Hacking is hard work. If your users are stuck you can setup hints for them to get unstuck.

Save Your CTF

Save Your CTF

With the Import/Export feature, you can save your CTF and reuse all your hard work.

Clean & Customizable

Clean & Customizable

No clutter makes the default theme of CTFd a beauty without being opinionated.

Testimonials

Trusted by Leading Organizations

See what other organizations have said about CTFd.

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“We struggled with our own infrastructure for a few years before switching to CTFd. We anticipated that the slick interface, easy configuration, and stability would be a big win for us, but what surprised us was what we weren’t expecting: our data got better. CTFd has made it easier for us to scout blue-chip prospects and elite veteran tech talent for our company.”

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Nick Harbour Senior Staff Reverse Engineer, FireEye

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“No longer are you bogged down with the task of creating the scoring, registration, administration, challenge modals, and all auxiliary applications, you can focus on what matters; challenges and learning objectives!”

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Jason Haddix Head of Trust and Security, Bugcrowd

 Starred by 6.5k+ users on GitHub

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