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Side by side, as alternatives to IDA Pro. Rows that differ are highlighted; the strongest value in a row is marked. Unknown means no source yet.

Also replaces IDA Pro: + REA (Reverse Engineer Anything)+ Ghidra+ Cutter

radare2radareorg/radare2
IDA Propaid product
Cost and coverage
Price
$0 software; you run it
IDA Free available; IDA Home from $365/year; IDA Pro Essential from €1,099/year, Expert from €4,999/year, Ultimate from €8,599/year (annual billing only) source ↗
Disassembly
Partial: Partly
Confirmed: Yes
Decompilation
Partial: Partly
Confirmed: Yes
Debugging
Partial: Partly
Confirmed: Yes
AI-assisted analysis
No: No
Confirmed: Yes
Jobs covered
3 of 4 jobs
All 4
Popularity and activity (from GitHub)
Stars
25,111
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Gain this week
Unknown
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Signal
Building history
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Commits / 4 wk
590
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Latest release
6.2.4 · 2026-10-05
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Commits / 12 wk
1,240
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People committing / 12 mo
54+
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Issues opened / closed, 30 days
24 / 44
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Facts, with sources on each project page
Runs on my machine?
Confirmed: Yes, command-line tool on your own machine
Hosted by the vendor
Code licence
Partial: Mostly LGPLv3 (version suffix not stated); plugins and dependencies vary, some GPL
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Model weights licence
Confirmed: No model weights
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Commercial use
Partial: Yes under LGPL-3.0 conditions; GPL parts can be left out with --without-gpl
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Paid services needed?
Confirmed: None required
Subscription
Hardware
Unknown: Not documented
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Operating systems
Confirmed: Windows, Linux, macOS, BSDs, Android, iOS and more
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Setup effort
Confirmed: Easy with release binaries (.deb, .pkg, Windows zip); source install via sys/install.sh is recommended
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Stars over time

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  • radare2
25,11124,136 2025-10-272026-10-21 Tracked daily begins 2026-10-15radare2, 2025-10-27: 24,225 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2025-11-03: 24,236 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2025-11-10: 24,252 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2025-11-17: 24,264 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2025-11-24: 24,287 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2025-12-01: 24,298 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2025-12-08: 24,312 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2025-12-15: 24,324 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2025-12-22: 24,347 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2025-12-29: 24,358 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-01-05: 24,390 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-01-12: 24,409 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-01-19: 24,426 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-01-26: 24,434 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-02-02: 24,446 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-02-09: 24,457 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-02-16: 24,470 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-02-23: 24,480 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-03-02: 24,486 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-03-09: 24,492 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-03-16: 24,503 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-03-23: 24,508 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-03-30: 24,515 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-04-06: 24,528 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-04-13: 24,541 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-04-20: 24,552 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-04-27: 24,560 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-05-04: 24,578 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-05-11: 24,587 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-05-18: 24,592 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-05-25: 24,594 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-06-01: 24,599 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-06-15: 24,601 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-06-22: 24,604 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-08-10: 24,606 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-08-31: 24,654 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-09-07: 24,718 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-09-14: 24,780 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-09-21: 24,836 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-09-28: 24,887 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-10-05: 24,972 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-10-12: 25,078 stars, estimated from public star recordsradare2, 2026-10-15: 25,052 stars, trackedradare2, 2026-10-16: 25,060 stars, trackedradare2, 2026-10-17: 25,062 stars, trackedradare2, 2026-10-18: 25,078 stars, trackedradare2, 2026-10-19: 25,093 stars, trackedradare2, 2026-10-20: 25,103 stars, trackedradare2, 2026-10-21: 25,111 stars, tracked
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Tracked daily since 15 Oct 2026. Dashed history: estimated from public records of when people starred the repo. Lines connect observations only; gaps contain no measured points.

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