What is the difference between Filescan.io and MetaDefender Sandbox commercial offerings?

Feature / Product	Filescan.IO (Community)	MetaDefender Sandbox (Standalone)	Adaptive Sandbox (Embedded MetaDefender Core Module)	MetaDefender Sandbox (Cloud, MDaaS)
Use Case	Free Triage with public reports, limited configurability	Full Malware Analysis, Alerts, Threat Hunting	Detection, Triage Alerts	Detection, Triage Alerts
Private Reports	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Full Report	No	Yes	No	No
Access all uploaded samples	No	Yes	No	No
File size limit	100 MB	2000 MB	2000 MB	140 MB - 1 GB
API Limits	Yes	No (FileScan.IO API)	No (MD Core API)	Yes
Priority Processing	No	Yes	No	Yes
User Management	No	Yes	Within MD Core	Within MD Cloud
ACL / Backend Access	No	Yes	No	No
Configurable Engine	No	Fully	Partially	No
Configurable YARA rules	No	Yes	No	No
Advanced Search / Threat Hunting Capability	No	Yes	No	No
Integration with SOAR	No	Yes	No	No
Integration with SIEM	No	Yes, via CEF syslog	Yes, via CEF syslog	No
Second-stage file downloads	Yes	Yes	No	No
Image text analysis (OCR)	Yes	Yes	No	No
VBA emulation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Powershell script emulation	Yes	Yes	No	No
URL emulation and phishing detection	Yes	Yes	No	No
3rd party OSINT sources	No	Yes	No	No
Embedded file processing	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
File visualization	Yes	Yes	No	No
QR code processing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial
OPSWAT Geolocation	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
String processing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial

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