| Price from | $3/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 1 |
| Spec score · PC Benchmark Software | 8.5 (#7) | 8.2 (#23) |
| Spec score · PC benchmark tools | 8.6 (#9) | 8.7 (#4) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Intended users | Novabench describes its free plan as for personal use and Novabench for Work as an endpoint performance suite for IT professionals. | The README describes sysbench for database benchmarking and for building custom system workloads, so it is aimed at users who can run command-line benchmarks and configure scripts. |
| Operating systems | Windows,macOS,Linux | Linux,macOS,Windows via Windows Subsystem for Linux |
| Security | Novabench says it has completed a SOC 2 Type 2 audit covering Security, Confidentiality, and Availability. | GitHub reports that the project has no detected security policy and no published security advisories. |
| Support | Support is available through documentation, support chat, and [email protected]. | The repository provides GitHub Issues for project questions and bug reports. |
| Workload areas | CPU,GPU,RAM,disk | database/OLTP,file I/O,CPU,memory,threads,mutex |
