HOMER vs Sipfront Beat

HOMER is a free framework for capturing VoIP and real-time communications traffic for analysis and monitoring. Its listed tools include search, end-to-end analysis, and packet drill-down, together with call-flow and PCAP capture, statistics, analytics, a REST API, and widgets. Capture agents support HEP3 encapsulation, payload encryption and compression, and TLS. The listed core covers SIP, RTCP, RTCP-XR, WebRTC signaling, and log collection. HEP/EEP integrations include Kamailio, OpenSIPS, Captagent, Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, RTPEngine, sipgrep, sngrep, and hepipe. HOMER 11 is described as an all-in-one HEP capture and API server for the 11.x data lake, with ingest, DuckLake storage, a Node using FlightSQL, and a Coordinator with a REST API. Docker is supported, and the project uses the AGPL-3.0 License. The maker presents HOMER for ITSPs, VoIP providers, and trunk suppliers. Commercial development support, 24/7 SLA production support, and advanced training are available by quote.

Sipfront Beat monitors voice services by placing scheduled synthetic calls and checking signalling, media, and key performance indicators. It can target a SIP URI, E.164 number, SIP trunk, or PBX endpoint, with tests launched from EU, US, and APAC agents. Measurements include MOS, jitter, packet loss, round-trip time, SIP responses, codec negotiation, DTMF, and call content. Predefined test books cover trunk availability, dial tone, MOS monitoring, codec coverage, and peer failover. Beat can alert through Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, webhooks, and email. Reports include SLA dashboards, embeddable widgets, branded scheduled reports, and signed public URLs. The product page names ITSPs, regional VoIP providers, hosted PBX and UCaaS providers, CCaaS and MVNOs, and Tier-1 carriers as audiences. It is available on the web or self-hosted. Sipfront says test data, captures, and AI Assistant transcripts stay on EU infrastructure, and describes the service as GDPR-aligned and EU AI Act audit-ready. Starter costs €89 a month, Growth 449.00 EUR, and Carrier 1349.00 EUR. A 14-day trial is available; there is no free plan.