| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · eBPF Observability Tools | 7.9 (#12) | 7.1 (#23) |
| License | The repository identifies Apache-2.0 as its license. | The repository is licensed under Apache License 2.0. |
| Purpose | BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs using eBPF. | orb8 is an eBPF-powered toolkit for Kubernetes network observability, designed for AI/ML clusters. |
| Security model | The README describes eBPF programs as sandboxed bytecode executed by the kernel and says BPF programs loaded into the kernel cannot crash or run forever. | The DaemonSet uses specified Linux capabilities and is described as not running in a privileged container. |