A-Packets vs PacketSafari
A-Packets
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PacketSafari
packetsafari.comSide by side
| Figure | A-Packets | PacketSafari |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $8.25/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 20 | 4 |
| Spec score · Network Packet Analyzer Software | 9.4 (#1) | 8.6 (#5) |
| API | The automation API supports PCAP upload, scheduled analysis and integrations; the REST upload endpoint uses a Bearer API key. | The on-prem HTTP streaming API uses POST /api/v2/ai/agent/run with bearer authentication and supports cli, tshark, and standard modes. |
| Integrations | OnPrem supports local passkey two-factor authentication, LDAP/Active Directory, SAML 2.0, OAuth through Google, Microsoft, and GitHub, and SCIM provisioning. | Security intelligence sources can include ET Open, abuse.ch SSLBL and URLhaus, and Stamus lateral-movement feeds. |
| Purpose | A-Packets analyzes PCAP and PCAPNG captures for incident response, forensics, and protocol inspection. | PacketSafari investigates packet captures for root-cause, performance, and security questions and returns findings linked to packet evidence. |
| Security controls | The security page states encryption in transit and at rest, access controls, firewalls and monitoring for hosted data. | The Trust Center states that TLS protects browser and API traffic, capture storage uses encrypted EBS volumes and snapshots, MFA and audit events are implemented, and SBOM and dependency scans support release checks. |
| Self-hosting | OnPrem is delivered through Docker Compose, Kubernetes/Helm or a signed air-gapped bundle. | Enterprise On-Prem keeps captures, identity, storage, retention, AI endpoints, and egress inside customer-controlled infrastructure. |
| System requirements | The Docker Compose deployment requires Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or RHEL 8+, Docker Engine 24+, at least 8 GB RAM and 80 GB free disk. | The Anonymizer supports macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon and Windows 10 or 11 on x64; anoncap CLI bundles target Linux x64, macOS Apple silicon or Intel, and Windows x64. |
| What it does | A-Packets analyzes PCAP and PCAPNG captures for incident response, forensics and protocol inspection. | PacketSafari analyzes PCAP, PCAPNG, and CAP files for root-cause and security investigations, returning packet-linked evidence and reports. |
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
PacketSafari
- Free EvaluationFree
- Dedicated Enterprise SaaSPriced on request
- Enterprise On-PremPriced on request
- Teams SaaSPriced on request
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.
PacketSafari
PacketSafari has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.