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IDA Free vs radare2: catalog facts
IDA Free	radare2
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Best for: Students and hobbyists learning reverse engineering on x86 binaries	Best for: Command-line reverse engineering framework and binary analysis toolkit
Free Free for non-commercial use; paid IDA Home and IDA Pro editions add more features and commercial rights.	Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external services are separate.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Command line
Same core disassembler as the commercial IDA Includes a decompiler for x86 and x86-64 Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux	It disassembles, emulates, debugs and patches binaries across a very wide set of architectures, and scripts through r2pipe from most languages.
Not licensed for commercial use Only x86 and x86-64 are supported Decompilation runs in the cloud and needs a connection	The command syntax is famously steep, and individual plugins carry different licences.
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Not open source	Open source
License: Proprietary	License: LGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Needs internet	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for IDA Free hex-rays.com/ida-free Catalog checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for radare2 github.com/radareorg/radare2 Catalog checked September 22, 2026

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