OpenProcMon vs TaskExplorer
OpenProcMon
github.com
TaskExplorer
xanasoft.comSide by side
| Figure | OpenProcMon | TaskExplorer |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | €5/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · Process Monitoring Software | 7.9 (#9) | 7.4 (#20) |
| Intended users | The project describes its driver as a possible starting point for building EDR-style tooling and provides MCP tools for AI-assisted capture and analysis. | The maker describes the tool as intended for developers, IT professionals, and power users; its Business certificate is aimed at commercial organizations, IT administrators, and enterprise deployments. |
| Purpose | OpenProcMon is an open-source Process Monitor implementation for Windows. | TaskExplorer is a process and system monitoring tool that provides real-time information about running applications and their behavior. |
Plans
TaskExplorer
- Task Explorer Pro Business€60 a year
- Task Explorer Pro Personal€60 a year
In their own words
OpenProcMon
OpenProcMon is a free, open-source process monitor for 64-bit Windows. It tracks process, file system, registry, and network activity in real time, with filters for process name, PID, operation, path, result, or category. Its interface includes a process tree, activity summaries, and call-stack views with per-frame module resolution. The tool reads and writes Sysinternals Process Monitor .PML logs, including logs made with the original Process Monitor. Developers can use its Rust SDK to connect to the driver, choose monitored activity, set filters, and consume parsed events programmatically. For AI-assisted capture and analysis, the procmon-cli MCP server operates over stdio and has setup instructions for clients including Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, and Cursor. Capture tools can export filtered results as PML, CSV, or XML. The v0.5.0 release offers a Windows x64 ZIP with the GUI, CLI/MCP server, console example, skill, and guides. Live capture needs Administrator privileges to load the kernel driver; analyzing an existing .PML file does not. The project is MIT-licensed and its Rust rewrite is described as under active development.
TaskExplorer
TaskExplorer has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.