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HWiNFO vs Coreinfo: catalog facts
HWiNFO	Coreinfo
Freemium Free for personal and non-commercial use. Commercial use requires a paid Pro licence after…	Free Free download from Microsoft Sysinternals.
Windows	Windows, Command line
Reports far more detail than Windows itself exposes, down to individual memory module SPD data Real-time sensor monitoring with logging, alerts and an on-screen display	Shows the mapping of logical processors to cores, NUMA nodes, sockets and caches Both command-line and graphical versions in one download
Windows only, apart from a legacy DOS build Commercial use requires a paid Pro licence; the free build allows only a 14-day evaluation at work	Windows only Virtualization features can be misreported when a hypervisor is running or inside a virtual machine
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Closed source
License not stated	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 8, 2026

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