Argus Monitor vs htop
Argus Monitor
argusmonitor.comhtop
htop.devSide by side
| Figure | Argus Monitor | htop |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 1 |
| Spec score · System Information Software | 8.8 (#1) | 7.6 (#16) |
Plans
Argus Monitor
- 1-year license$16.45 a year
- 3-year license$35.95 a year
- 1-year renewal$11.95 a year
- 3-year renewal$24.95 a year
- 30-day evaluationFree
In their own words
Argus Monitor
Argus Monitor has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
htop
htop is a free, text-mode interactive process viewer for Linux and macOS. It runs in console or X terminals and requires ncurses, offering a command-line interface for watching and managing running processes. Current releases also list FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Solaris as supported systems. The project, founded in 2004, is distributed as source code on GitHub and as pre-compiled packages from operating-system distributors, with installation examples for Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, and Arch Linux; Homebrew includes it for macOS. Its display can show Unicode Braille graphs and a Unicode tree view, including visual support for large processor counts. Users can set I/O scheduling priority and CPU affinity, choose dark or light terminal themes, and customize header meters. The memory percentage covers process-used memory; htop does not provide a per-process SWAP column.