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Pandora FMS vs PRTG Network Monitor: catalog facts
Pandora FMS	PRTG Network Monitor
Freemium An open-source edition is available; commercial on-premise and SaaS licences are sold…	Freemium Free for up to one hundred sensors. Larger deployments require a paid licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Windows, Web, Self-hosted
Covers servers, networks, applications, logs and user experience Dashboards, reports and alerts built in	One hundred sensors free forever, which covers a small network Autodiscovery, maps and alerting configured through one interface
Aimed at organisations, so setup is more involved than a desktop monitor Many features and add-ons belong to the commercial editions	Licensing is per sensor and gets expensive quickly Windows server only, closed source
Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted
Open source	Closed source
License not stated	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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