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Nautobot Professional—Your Foundation for Self-Managed Network Automation

Deploy Nautobot on-premises or in your own cloud environment while gaining expert support, enhanced visibility, and built-in tools that help your team move from planning to operations faster.

Operational Tools

built for self-managed control

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Commercial tools to build automation foundation

Nautobot Support

support from the creators of nautobot

Why Nautobot Professional

Accelerate your self-managed deployment with additional capabilities teams need to operationalize automation. Nautobot Professional is the commercial edition of Nautobot for organizations that want to run the platform in their own environment while adding expert support, operational tooling, visibility, and AI assistance.
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Nautobot Support

24×7 Ticketing, quarterly business reviews, monthly touchpoints, scheduled maintenance windows, and guided support from the team behind Nautobot.

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Device Discovery

Automatically discover devices across your environment, and identify unknown, unmanaged, or rogue assets faster.

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Operational Tools

Troubleshoot from within Nautobot — ping, traceroute, SSH, and support-ready diagnostic bundles.

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Insights Dashboards

Access inventory, lifecycle, and automation reports from one centralized operational view for better visibility and control.

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Ansible Automation App

Run Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and AWX jobs directly from Nautobot without context-switching.

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NautobotAI

Optional NautobotGPT assistance for Nautobot insights, guidance, and Job creation workflows assistance, plus MCP Server & VS Code Integration.

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Who Is Nautobot Professional Built For?

Nautobot Professional is designed for organizations that want a self-managed enterprise network automation platform —on-premises or in their own cloud—plus commercial capabilities, operational tools, and expert support from the creators of Nautobot.

Accelerate your move from research and planning into real automation execution with proven tools to discover devices, populate your Nautobot Network Source of Truth, and begin operational workflows quickly and with confidence.

Run Nautobot in your own environment, on-premises or in your own cloud, to meet compliance, regulatory, or security or internal platform constraints.

Add commercial support, enhanced visibility, and operational utilities that help scale automation beyond early initiatives.

Troubleshoot devices, run automation workflows, visualize inventory and lifecycle insights, and enhance workflows with AI-assisted capabilities—all within Nautobot.

AI Assistance for Faster, Smarter Network Automation

NautobotAI helps your team reduce manual efforts, accelerate Nautobot Job creation, and make better data-driven decisions — leading to faster and smarter automation with less risk, whether you’re just starting or scaling.
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NautobotGPT Job Assistance

Use AI-driven guidance to streamline the creation of automation jobs and accelerate workflow development.

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Developer Integrations

Leverage MCP Server and VS Code integration to bring NautobotAI into your day-to-day workflows.

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Reduce Manual Effort

Let AI streamline how you explore, validate, and act on network data, reducing manual effort.

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Operational Visibility that Helps Teams Act Faster

Turn network visibility into action with prebuilt dashboards that help your team understand inventory, track lifecycle risk, and monitor automation activity from a single interface.

Nautobot Professional includes prebuilt Insights Dashboards for:

    Inventory Management

  • See devices, platforms, and software versions in one place.
  • Lifecycle Tracking

  • Track device age, warranty status, and end-of-life information.
  • Automation Oversight

  • Monitor executed jobs, status, and outcomes from a single interface.
  • Operational Health

  • Identify discrepancies, rogue devices, and potential issues quickly.

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Trusted by Network Teams Who Demand Reliable Automation

See why enterprise network teams trust Nautobot to deliver reliable, scalable automation—directly from those who use it every day at scale.

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Compare Nautobot Professional, Enterprise, and Cloud

Choose the deployment model and automation depth that fit your team.

When to Choose Each Edition

Best for teams that want to run Nautobot in their own environment while gaining commercial support, operational tools, dashboards, and AI assistance.

Best for organizations that require a self-managed deployment plus advanced automation and operational risk reduction, including multi-vendor OS upgrades and continuous operational validation.

Best for teams that want the fastest path to enterprise automation without managing infrastructure, while gaining access to specialized cloud-only and AI capabilities delivered as SaaS.

Nautobot Edition Comparison

Capability Professional Enterprise Cloud
Best Fit
Select the right Nautobot edition based on your current needs and future goals
Teams building their enterprise
automation foundation
Teams requiring advanced
automation and compliance
Teams prioritizing speed, scale,
and minimal operational overhead
Deployment Model
Flexible deployment options aligned to your infrastructure and governance requirements
Self-Managed
(on-prem/your cloud)
Self-Managed
(on-prem/your cloud)
Fully managed SaaS
Open Source Apps
Access a broad ecosystem of free, NTC-maintained Nautobot applications
Expert Support
24×7 support with direct access to experts, plus maintenance and upgrade assistance
Device Discovery
Automatically discover devices and uncover unknown assets across your network
Ansible Integration
Execute Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and AWX jobs directly within Nautobot
Accelerator Suite
Nautobot Operational Tools, Insight Dashboards, Showtech
+
++
NautobotAI
AI-powered assistance with NautobotGPT, MCP Server, and VS Code integration
++
Exclusive Cloud-Only Capabilities
Cloud-native features including secure proxy, console access, and connectivity options
Advanced Automation Apps
Commercial applications for OS upgrades, compliance, and operational automation
Fastest Time to Value
Compare how quickly each edition enables your team to deliver automation outcomes
Good Better Best
  • Accelerator Suite + Additional capabilities beyond Professional
  • Accelerator Suite ++ Additional capabilities beyond Enterprise
  • NautobotAI ++ Additional AI Agents

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Need More Advanced Automation?

If your organization is ready to move beyond foundational automation capabilities, explore the other Nautobot offerings:
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Explore Nautobot Enterprise
Unlock advanced automation workflows including multi-vendor OS upgrades and operational compliance with enhanced operational risk reduction.
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Explore Nautobot Cloud
Run Nautobot as a fully managed SaaS, with the complete suite of enterprise capabilities, no operational overhead, the fullest NautobotAI experience, and the fastest time to value.
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Start with a Self-Managed Foundation Built to Scale

Nautobot Professional helps teams move from planning to execution faster while maintaining control over where and how Nautobot runs.
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Community
Open Source
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Professional
Foundation
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Enterprise
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Cloud
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Don’t wait to start automating—the sooner you establish a trusted platform for Network Source of Truth data, automation workflows, and operational visibility, the sooner you can scale with confidence.

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