A-Packets vs RedSplice Network Analyzer

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.

RedSplice Network Analyzer captures and examines network traffic, organizing captured packets into sessions for inspection. When a network adapter supports promiscuous mode, it can capture traffic from other devices on the network segment. Users can view sessions as hexadecimal packets, extracted text, or data formatted for an application protocol, and the product lists content extraction, network statistics, keyword filtering, and protocol decoding. Captured packets can be edited and injected back into network traffic. SSL traffic decryption supports passive and active modes, with active decryption limited to traffic generated on the local host. The Free edition costs nothing and is limited to local traffic and capture time; it includes a 15 Day Trial. Professional adds unlimited capture time, non-local capture decoding, packet sending, real-time statistics and charts, custom filters, an unlimited address book, and technical support, but no Professional price is listed. The maker identifies security researchers, forensic specialists, application or web developers, and network administrators as intended users. The product lineage, according to its maker, began in 1999 with a sniffer called Spynet, later known as Iris.