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Netdata vs HomeButler: catalog facts
Netdata	HomeButler
Freemium The agent is free and open source under the GPL 3.0. Netdata Cloud has a free tier and…	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted	macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line
Per-second metrics with dashboards that work the moment it is installed Auto-discovers common services and graphs them without configuration	Reports changes instead of live graphs Verifies that backups actually restore
The sheer number of charts is overwhelming at first Uses more memory and disk than a minimal metrics agent	Aimed at small homelabs rather than large fleets Young project with a small user base
Self-hosted, Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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