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HWiNFO vs Libre Hardware Monitor: catalog facts
HWiNFO	Libre Hardware Monitor
Freemium Free for personal and non-commercial use. Commercial use requires a paid Pro licence after…	Free Free and open source under the MPL 2.0.
Windows	Windows
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	Reads motherboard, CPU, GPU, drive and network card sensors Also a library, so other tools can use it as their sensor backend
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 Needs administrator rights to read low-level sensors
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: MPL-2.0
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 September 21, 2026

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