Arkime vs Zeek
No leader: the top candidate Zeek has only 0.24 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for network security. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Arkime
A network monitoring tool that passively captures and analyzes traffic, extracting detailed session information and providing searchable records with flexible retention policies for integration into existing security infrastructure.
Zeek
A passive network monitoring tool that analyzes traffic on sensors to generate detailed logs and file data for security investigation and integration with SIEM platforms, without interfering with network operations.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Arkime
- PassiveTotal
- VirusTotal
- Censys
- Shodan
- Slack
- Elasticsearch
Zeek
- AWS Traffic Mirroring
- Kafka
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.