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Pandora FMS vs The Dude: catalog facts
Pandora FMS	The Dude
Freemium An open-source edition is available; commercial on-premise and SaaS licences are sold…	Free Free to download from MikroTik.
Web, Self-hosted	Windows
Covers servers, networks, applications, logs and user experience Dashboards, reports and alerts built in	Automatic device discovery Draws network maps from discovered devices
Aimed at organisations, so setup is more involved than a desktop monitor Many features and add-ons belong to the commercial editions	Installer is Windows only Closely tied to the MikroTik ecosystem
Self-hosted, Hosted service	Downloadable app
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 October 1, 2026

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