U-CTF
Managed CTF Platform

U-CTF, because it's YOUR CTF.

Deploy shared or instanced challenges, upload your themes and plugins, and ship with storage included. No infrastructure setup needed.

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Managed CTFd infrastructure

Set up the event without assembling networking, storage, or certificates by hand.

Themes and plugins ready to upload

Push your branding and extensions into the platform without extra plumbing.

Two deployment models for challenges

Run one shared service for everyone or isolated instanced services per team.

What you get

Ships on day one

  • Managed CTFd infrastructure
  • Shared & instanced challenges
  • Theme & plugin delivery
  • Custom domain with TLS
  • 10 GB included storage
  • Git-synced challenge delivery
Included storage

10 GB

Challenge delivery

Git sync

Soon on roadmap

Autoscaling

Why U-CTF

Everything your event needs. Nothing extra to build.

U-CTF is built for organizers who want to focus on great challenges, not on maintaining the stack running them. Customization, deployment, storage, and operations all in one workflow.

Infrastructure already handled
Start from a managed stack instead of stitching together networking, storage, certificates, and runtime services by hand.
Theme and plugin delivery
Upload the visual identity and platform extensions your event needs without building a bespoke deployment workflow.
Shared or instanced challenges
Choose between one challenge service for every team or isolated instances when the challenge model demands it.
Included challenge storage
Ship with 10 GB included for challenge assets and switch to your own credentials when your workflow requires it.
Operational clarity
Keep teams, environments, and event delivery in one control plane instead of spreading the work across ad hoc tooling.
Git-synced challenges
Connect a GitHub repository and keep challenge content in sync with versioned commits, so iterative delivery stays close to your workflow.
Bring your own container images
Use your own images and registries, without proprietary build constraints.
Challenge deployment

Deploy challenges the way the event actually needs them.

Some challenges belong in one shared service. Others need isolated infrastructure per team. Both patterns are supported, so you're not locked into one deployment model.

One container for everyone
Shared challenge

Use a shared challenge deployment when a single service is enough for every team. It keeps operations lean and is a good fit for classic web and service-style challenges.

  • One running service for the whole event
  • Simpler resource footprint
  • Useful when all teams can interact with the same environment
Isolated environment per team
Instanced challenge

Use instanced deployments when each team needs a clean environment. That model is better when the challenge can be altered, exhausted, or solved in a way that should not leak state across teams.

  • Fresh environment for each team
  • Safer isolation for mutable challenges
  • Better fit for stateful or destructive challenge flows
Plan comparison

More challenge infrastructure, lower price point.

U-CTF's basic plan is built for organizers who need per-team instanced challenges and full container control, capabilities that hosted CTFd reserves for higher tiers.

U-CTF

€44.99

/month

CTFd.io

$60

/month

Shared challenges5 containers
Instanced challenges (isolated per team)
Custom subdomain or domain
TLS / SSL
Git-synced challenge delivery
Bring-your-own container images
CTFTime integration
Webhooks (Discord & generic)
Theme & plugin uploadsFree themes only
Included storage10 GB
Teams & players
Page-view capNone250k / month
Preconfigured email

Comparison based on publicly available CTFd.io Basic plan details as of April 2026. You bring your own container images and challenge content. U-CTF provides the infrastructure to deploy and manage them.

Storage and delivery

Ship challenge assets quickly, then decide how much of the storage story you want to own.

U-CTF includes storage from the start, which means you can publish challenges, bundle event assets, and keep customization files moving without blocking on separate infra work.

  • 10 GB storage included for challenge and event assets.
  • Bring your own credentials when your organization needs a custom storage path.
  • Keep themes, plugins, and challenge artifacts closer to the event workspace.

Included by default

10 GB

Enough room to get a competition moving, with a clean path to use your own credentials when the event setup calls for it.

Themes, plugins, and challenge bundles stay close to the platform instead of relying on improvised side channels.
Coming soon

The roadmap is aimed at removing even more operational drag.

Future platform work will push U-CTF further toward hands-off event operations, without pretending those features are here already.

Autoscaling

Scale event workloads more gracefully as traffic spikes and challenge demand changes.

Next step

Create an organization and run your first event.

Sign in with GitHub, create an organization, and you're ready to run your first CTF event. The whole setup takes a few minutes.

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How it works

  1. 1Sign in with GitHub
  2. 2Create an organization
  3. 3Set up your first event