A-Packets vs HOMER
A-Packets
apackets.comHOMER
sipcapture.github.ioSide by side
| Figure | A-Packets | HOMER |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $8.25/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 20 | 0 |
| Spec score · Network Protocol Analyzers | 9.4 (#1) | 7.9 (#15) |
| API | The automation API supports PCAP upload, scheduled analysis and integrations; the REST upload endpoint uses a Bearer API key. | Homer includes a Coordinator REST API gateway for its user interface and external applications. |
| Deployment | OnPrem supports Docker Compose, Kubernetes with Helm, and air-gapped deployments, with captures and reports stored in infrastructure controlled by the customer. | The project provides release downloads, official Docker builds, and Compose examples; its README lists x64 and ARM64 support on Linux and macOS. |
| Integrations | OnPrem supports local passkey two-factor authentication, LDAP/Active Directory, SAML 2.0, OAuth through Google, Microsoft, and GitHub, and SCIM provisioning. | The project documents optional Arrow FlightSQL for Grafana and REST API access for the UI and external applications. |
| Purpose | A-Packets analyzes PCAP and PCAPNG captures for incident response, forensics, and protocol inspection. | HOMER is an open-source SIP, VoIP, and RTC packet capture and monitoring system. |
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.