A-Packets vs CapAnalysis
A-Packets
apackets.comCapAnalysis
capanalysis.netSide by side
| Figure | A-Packets | CapAnalysis |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $8.25/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 20 | 1 |
| Spec score · Network Packet Analyzer Software | 9.4 (#1) | 7.9 (#17) |
| Audience | The maker identifies SOC, DFIR, incident response, network security, network operations, MSSP, integration, and forensic teams as intended OnPrem users. | The maker lists students, researchers, hackers, engineers, and developers as potential users. |
| Purpose | A-Packets analyzes PCAP and PCAPNG captures for incident response, forensics, and protocol inspection. | CapAnalysis is a web visual tool for analyzing large amounts of captured network traffic, aimed at information security specialists and system administrators. |
| Support | OnPrem inquiries normally begin with a 30-minute fit call, and the maker says it replies to requests within two business days. | The maker invites users to contact them by form with project questions or other inquiries. |
Plans
A-Packets
- Public analysisFree
- Public analysisFree
- Starter Workspace$11.99 a month
- Starter Workspace (monthly)$11.99 a month
- Starter Pack$14.99, paid once
- Starter Pack$14.99, paid once
- Professional$24.99 a month
- Professional (monthly)$24.99 a month
- Standard Pack$44.99, paid once
- Standard Pack$44.99, paid once
In their own words
A-Packets
A-Packets analyzes PCAP and PCAPNG captures for incident response, forensics and protocol inspection. It reconstructs HTTP sessions, maps communicating hosts and services, examines wireless artifacts, extracts files, identifies credential exposure and flags suspicious events. The hosted analyzer accepts native capture files from tools such as Wireshark and tcpdump. Public analysis costs nothing, requires no signup and accepts uploads up to 25 MB, but the resulting page is public. Private workspace plans include reports and a REST API key: Starter Workspace (monthly) is $11.99 a month, Professional (monthly) is $24.99 a month, and Advanced (monthly) is $49.99 a month. Yearly workspaces are $99 a year, $199 a year and $399 a year, respectively. One-time packs cost $14.99 as a one-time purchase, $44.99, paid once or $99.99, paid once. Subscription analyses have permanent private storage; credit-pack reports are deleted after 30 days. OnPrem supports customer-controlled storage and air-gapped deployments, but analyzes captures case by case and does not decrypt TLS payloads, capture continuously or alert.
CapAnalysis
CapAnalysis is a free, open-source web visual tool for examining captured network traffic on Linux. It indexes PCAP datasets and displays TCP, UDP, and ESP streams or flows, including geographic connection views. The web viewer handles individual PCAP files and sets of files. TCP analysis reports bytes lost in each direction and total bytes exchanged without counting retransmitted packets. Deep Packet Inspection identifies more than 140 protocols, allowing protocol-based flow filtering. Other filters cover IP address or port, destination country, data size, and date and time. An included MaxMind database identifies destination countries for IPv4 and IPv6 connections. PCAP files can also be imported from public URLs, including URLs pointing to ZIP archives. Debian and Ubuntu packages are listed in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. After installation, users open the application through a browser on port 9877. The demo accepts PCAP files up to 20 MB and deletes dataset data the following day at 00:00 UTC.