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Open-source alternatives to IDA Pro

IDA Pro is Hex-Rays' commercial disassembler and decompiler. Ghidra (from the NSA) and radare2 are the main open-source reverse engineering frameworks, both with disassembly, scripting and multi-architecture support.

IDA Pro is a commercial product by Hex-Rays (official site). Category: Reverse engineering and malware analysis.

Comparison

ToolLicenceStarsLast commitBest for
GhidraApache-2.0Open source92ktodaySoftware reverse engineering framework from the NSA
radare2LGPL-3.0-onlyOpen source25ktodayUNIX-like reverse engineering framework

Open-source options

  • Ghidra

    Software reverse engineering framework from the NSA

    Reverse engineering suite released by the NSA with disassembly, decompilation, graphing and scripting for many processor architectures.

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    92k
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    Last commit
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    Alternative toIDA Pro
  • radare2

    UNIX-like reverse engineering framework

    Command-line reverse engineering framework with a disassembler, debugger, hex editor and scripting for many architectures and file formats.

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    25k
    Forks
    3.4k
    Last commit
    today
    Alternative toIDA Pro

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