Comparison of packet analyzers

The following tables compare general and technical information for several packet analyzer software utilities, also known as network analyzers or packet sniffers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.

General information

Basic general information about the software—creator/company, license/price, etc.

Creator Latest release User interface Software license Cost
Allegro Network Multimeter Allegro Packets September 10, 2020 / 3.0.0[1] Web GUI ProprietaryNon-free
Analyze This Comoe Networks Web GUI N/A?
Cain and Abel Massimiliano Montoro April 7, 2014 / 4.9.56 GUI FreewareFree
Capsa Colasoft April 24, 2018 / 11.1[2] GUI Proprietary $0–$995, depending on version[3]
Carnivore Federal Bureau of Investigation ? ? N/A?
Charles Web Debugging Proxy Karl van Randow July 10, 2017 / 4.1.4 GUI ? $30–$50 (Free Trial)
Clarified Analyzer Clarified Networks GUI ProprietaryNon-free
Clusterpoint Network Traffic Surveillance System Clusterpoint web GUI Proprietary?
CommView TamoSoft November 30, 2017 / 6.5 Build 770 GUI Proprietary $299–$599, $149 1 year subscription
dSniff Dug Song December 17, 2000 / 2.3[4] CLI BSD License Free
EtherApe Juan Toledo June 3, 2018 / 0.9.18[5] GUI GNU General Public License Free
Ettercap ALoR and NaGA August 1, 2020 / 0.8.3.1-Bertillon[6] Both GNU General Public License Free
Fiddler Eric Lawrence / Telerik October 3, 2019 / 5.0.20194[7] GUI Freeware Free
HTTP Toolkit Tim Perry January 15, 2021 / v1.1.0[8] GUI GNU Affero General Public License Free
justniffer The Justniffer team March 21, 2016 / 0.5.15[9] CLI GNU General Public License Free
Kismet Mike Kershaw (dragorn) May 2, 2020 / 2020-04-R3[10] CLI GNU General Public License Free
Microsoft Message Analyzer Microsoft October 28, 2016 / 1.4[11] GUI Proprietary Free
Microsoft Network Monitor Microsoft June 24, 2010 / 3.4 GUI Proprietary Free
netsniff-ng Daniel Borkmann November 7, 2016 / 0.6.2 CLI GNU General Public License Free
ngrep Jordan Ritter September 7, 2017 / 1.47 CLI BSD-style Free
Observer Viavi Solutions (formerly Network Instruments) GUI Proprietary Price on request
OmniPeek (formerly AiroPeek, EtherPeek) Savvius (formerly WildPackets) November 2017 / 11.1 GUI Proprietary $1194–$5994, depending on version[12]
Proxyman Nghia Tran October 20, 2020 / v2.10.0(21000)[13] GUI Proprietary $25–$59 (Free Trial)
SteelCentral Transaction Analyzer OPNET Technologies/Riverbed Technology June 9, 2014 / 17.0.T-PL1[14] GUI Proprietary Non-free
snoop Sun Microsystems December 11, 2006 / Solaris 10 CLI CDDL Free
tcpdump The Tcpdump team December 30, 2020 / 4.99.0[15] CLI BSD License Free
Tranalyzer The Tranalyzer team November 29, 2019 / 0.8.7lmw1[16] CLI GNU General Public License Free
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) The Wireshark team December 18, 2020 / 3.4.2[17] Both GNU General Public License Free
Xplico The Xplico team May 2, 2019 / 1.2.2[18] Both GNU General Public License Free

Operating system support

The utilities can run on these operating systems.

Client Microsoft Windows macOS Linux BSDs Solaris Other
Cain and Abel Yes No No No No No
Capsa Free Edition Yes No No No No No
Carnivore Yes No No No No No
Charles Web Debugging Proxy Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
Clusterpoint Network Traffic
Surveillance System		 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Any virtual-machine compatible OS
CommView Yes No No No No No
dSniff ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
EtherApe No Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Ettercap Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
HTTP Toolkit Yes Yes Yes No No Client available for Android[19]
justniffer No Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Kismet Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Lanmeter No No No No No Fluke proprietary hardware
netsniff-ng No No Yes No No No
ngrep Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes AIX, BeOS, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64 UNIX
Microsoft Network Monitor Yes No No No No No
Observer Yes No No No No No
OmniPeek (formerly AiroPeek, EtherPeek) Yes No No No No No
Proxyman No Yes No No No No
SteelCentral Transaction Analyzer Yes Version 3.5 capture agents on PowerPC only GUI, plus version 3.5 capture agents No Version 3.5 capture agents on SPARC only Version 3.5 capture agents on AIX and PA-RISC HP-UX only
snoop No No No No Yes No
tcpdump Yes (WinDump) Yes Yes Yes Yes AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64 UNIX
Tranalyzer No Yes Yes ? ? ?
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64 UNIX
Xplico No No Yes No No No

Features
Process grouping Monitor mode Capture filter
Wireshark ???

References
  1. "Release 3.0: Allegro Network Multimeter With New Operating System and Additional VoIP Information" (Press release). September 10, 2020.
  2. "Colasoft Announces Release of Capsa Network Analyzer v11.1 with Enhanced Usability" (Press release). April 25, 2018.
  3. "Capsa Enterprise Edition & Standard Edition & Free Edition – Colasoft".
  4. "CHANGES". monkey.org.
  5. "EtherApe, a graphical network monitor". etherape.sourceforge.net. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
  6. "Releases · Ettercap". ettercap-project.org. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
  7. "Fiddler Release History". Telerik. October 3, 2019.
  8. "HTTP Toolkit Releases". HTTP Toolkit. January 15, 2021.
  9. "justniffer - Browse /justniffer at SourceForge.net". sourceforge.net. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  10. "Kismet". kismetwireless.net. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  11. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44226
  12. "store.savvius.com". Archived from the original on August 13, 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
  13. "Proxyman Release Changelogs". Proxyman. October 20, 2020.
  14. https://support.riverbed.com/content/support/software/steelcentral-npm/transaction-analyzer.html
  15. "Tcpdump/Libpcap public repository". tcpdump.org. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
  16. Tranalyzer. "Tranalyzer repository". tranalyzer.com. Archived from the original on March 17, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  17. "Wireshark 3.4.2 and 3.2.10 Released". December 18, 2020. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
  18. https://www.xplico.org/archives/1562
  19. "HTTP Toolkit Android Guide". HTTP Toolkit. June 1, 2020.
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