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Metasploit Framework vs Pacu: catalog facts
Metasploit Framework	Pacu
Freemium The Framework is free and open source under a BSD-style licence. Rapid7 sells a commercial…	Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
A very large library of exploit modules, payloads and auxiliary scanners Proves whether a scanner finding is genuinely exploitable rather than theoretical	Modules cover privilege escalation, IAM backdooring and Lambda attacks, and the framework keeps session state across a…
Only legitimate against systems you own or are authorised to test Antivirus and endpoint protection will flag both the tool and its payloads	It acts against live AWS accounts, so it must only be used on accounts you own or are…
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-3-Clause	License: BSD-3-Clause
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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