Ambih Monitor vs PM2
Ambih Monitor
ambih.com
PM2
pm2.keymetrics.ioSide by side
| Figure | Ambih Monitor | PM2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $4.58/mo | $79/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 7 | 6 |
| Spec score · Process Monitoring Software | 9.1 (#1) | 9.0 (#2) |
| Documentation depth | The site links separate Docs and Changelog resources, while the Monitor pages document CLI commands, statistical methods, system requirements and security behavior. | The documentation includes runtime guides, CLI reference, configuration, cluster mode, deployment, integrations, advanced APIs, modules, FAQ and troubleshooting. |
| Purpose | Ambih Monitor records each app, dev server, or script launch as a session and tracks CPU, memory, disk, network, and GPU per project. | PM2 is a daemon process manager that helps manage applications and keep them online. |
| System requirements | The application requires Windows 10 version 1809 or later or Windows 11, 64-bit, with .NET 8 Desktop Runtime bundled. | PM2 7 requires Node.js 20 or newer and supports Bun; the project README lists Linux, macOS and Windows support. |
| What it does | Ambih Monitor records launches of apps, development servers and scripts as project sessions, measuring CPU, memory, disk, network and GPU usage. | PM2 is a daemon process manager intended to keep Node.js applications running continuously in production. |
Plans
Ambih Monitor
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Pro$8 a month
- Pro$10 a month
- Team$55 a year
- Pro Annual$65 a year
- Lifetime$199, paid once
PM2
- PM2 RuntimeFree
- RuntimeFree
- Plus$79 a month
- PM2 Plus$79 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
- PM2 EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Ambih Monitor
Ambih Monitor records each app, development server, or script launch as a session and tracks CPU, memory, disk, and network use by project. GPU utilization and dedicated or shared VRAM tracking can be enabled per project. It learns resource baselines across launches, allowing a run to be compared with earlier ones. Pro adds resource-change flags and labels runs Stable, Watch, or Regression. Users can compare multiple past runs side by side, while the bundled ambih CLI can launch and compare runs, output JSON, and use ambih verify to gate CI on regressions or resource budgets. The site describes monitoring as language-agnostic and lists stacks including Electron, Tauri,.NET, Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, Java, PHP, and Flutter. The available download is for Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, and includes the.NET 8 Desktop Runtime. Free includes a five-session history per project; Pro costs $10 a month when billed annually. macOS and Linux are in development.
PM2
PM2 is a daemon process manager for managing applications and keeping them online. PM2 Runtime is an open-source process manager; PM2 Plus adds monitoring for Node.js production applications. Runtime supports cluster mode, zero-downtime reloads, watch and restart, startup scripts, log management and memory-based reloads. For containers, pm2-runtime can run Node.js applications with process fallback, flow control, monitoring and source-map support. PM2 Plus lists a web monitoring interface, application overview, issue tracking, custom metrics, server health checks and Node.js V8 monitoring. Its alerts include email and Slack notifications, while Enterprise adds rule-based alerting. The AI Assistant connects Claude, Cursor and other MCP-compatible assistants to monitoring data through OAuth with a PM2.io account. Documentation covers Docker, cloud providers, Heroku, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Nginx and deployment workflows. Runtime costs nothing, and Plus costs $79 a month.