Frida vs PE Explorer
Frida
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| Figure | Frida | PE Explorer |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $4.92/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 8 |
| Spec score · Reverse Engineering Tools | 8.7 (#4) | 7.6 (#30) |
| Support | Frida’s contact page lists a Telegram group and the #frida IRC channel for contacting the community. | The support page says the team usually replies to emails requiring a response within one business day. |
Plans
PE Explorer
- Personal License – Update and Support Renewal$59 a year
- 1 User License – Update and Support Renewal$115 a year
- Personal (Home) License$129, paid once
- Business License$229.95, paid once
- 5 User License – Update and Support Renewal$449 a year
- 10 User License – Update and Support Renewal$799 a year
- 5 User Business License$949.95, paid once
- 10 User Business License$1,599, paid once
In their own words
Frida
Frida is a dynamic instrumentation toolkit for developers, reverse-engineers, and security researchers. It lets users place scripts in running processes to hook functions, inspect APIs, and trace application code without source code. Documented uses include API tracing, diagnostics, encrypted-protocol analysis, and black-box testing.
Frida supports injected, embedded, and preloaded instrumentation. When injection is unavailable, Frida Gadget can be embedded in a program, including on jailed iOS and Android systems. Supported targets include Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, Android, FreeBSD, and QNX. Language bindings include Node.js, Python, Swift, .NET, Qt/Qml, and Go, alongside a C API. The CLI tools require Python and run on Windows, macOS, or GNU/Linux; the documented installation command is `pip install frida-tools`.
PE Explorer
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