IDA Pro Headless, the engine
without the GUI.

Script it, scale it across a fleet of servers, and embed it in your own pipelines and products. IDA Pro Headless is the full IDA analysis engine with no interface.

What teams build with it

01

Automated malware triage at scale

Point IDA Pro Headless at a queue of samples and let it disassemble, decompile and extract features without a single click. Pull functions, strings, imports and IOCs into your own database, and escalate only the samples that need a human. Thousands of binaries a day, one worker pool.

02

Reverse engineering in CI/CD

Run IDA analysis on every build. Diff a new binary against the last release to catch unexpected changes, enforce checks on third-party dependencies, or fail a pipeline when a risky pattern appears. The same analysis your experts trust, wired into your automation.

03

Embed IDA in your own product

Ship analysis features powered by IDA under the hood. Whether you build a threat-intel platform, a supply-chain scanner or an internal portal, IDA Pro Headless gives you disassembly and decompilation as a library your product calls, on your servers or in the cloud.

04

Large-scale research and data generation

Run IDA Pro Headless across a whole corpus, whether that's a firmware archive, a package registry, or years of collected samples, and turn it into structured output: functions, strings, call graphs, and decompiled code. It's the raw material for research, detection rules and training data.

IDA Pro and IDA Pro Headless, side by side

Capability
IDA Pro
IDA Pro Headless
What you get
Interactive GUI
IDA Pro
IDA Pro Headless
Disassembler · 70+ processors
IDA Pro
IDA Pro Headless
Decompilers · 15+ architectures
IDA Pro
IDA Pro Headless
Scripting: IDAPython, Domain API
IDA Pro
IDA Pro Headless
Integration into team workflows or pipelines
IDA Pro
IDA Pro Headless
Automated binary analysis at scale
IDA Pro
IDA Pro Headless
Integration into a commercial product or platform
IDA Pro
IDA Pro Headless
Best suited to
IDA Pro Analysts at a desk
IDA Pro Headless Pipelines, servers, products
Licensing
Assigned to
IDA Pro A person, machine or seat
IDA Pro Headless A workflow or deployment
Runs in CI, servers, containers
IDA Pro Limited
IDA Pro Headless
Redistribute or embed in a product
IDA Pro
IDA Pro Headless by agreement
Not sure which one your team needs?

The engine
is IDA

IDA Pro Headless isn’t a lite version. It’s the exact same disassembler, decompiler and analysis that power IDA Pro, delivered as idalib: a library with no interface. Everything your analysts rely on at their desk is what runs in your pipeline.

The stack top to bottom
01 · Your side Your pipeline, server or product
CI · batch · service
02 · Headless entry point no interface
idalibscriptsCLI
03 · The engine IDA Pro
A Disassembler
B Decompiler
C Analysis

Interested in IDA Pro Headless?

Tell us what you’re building and our team will help you scope licensing and deployment.