Cacti vs nPro EMS
A side-by-side comparison on deployment model, data residency, licensing basis and security coverage. Structural facts are verifiable against vendor documentation; the scored dimensions are our assessment.
Cacti
The Cacti Group
6.7
Average across eight dimensions
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Licensing
- Free
- Time to value
- Medium
- Segment
- SMB / education
- G2
- —
nPro EMS
NPRO TECH Sdn. Bhd.
8.1
Average across eight dimensions
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Licensing
- $4.50/agent/mo
- Time to value
- Fast
- Segment
- Mid-market / regulated enterprise
- G2
- —
Score by dimension
| Dimension | CA | NP |
|---|---|---|
| Data residency control | 10 | 10 |
| Pricing value | 9.8 | 8.5 |
| Detection accuracy | 6 | 7.5 |
| Response speed | 5.5 | 7.5 |
| Ease of setup | 6 | 9 |
| Management UX | 5.5 | 7.5 |
| Integration depth | 6 | 6 |
| Security coverage | 4.5 | 8.5 |
Cacti
- +Free, stable and extremely light on resources
- +Long-established SNMP graphing with a large body of community templates
- +Runs happily on modest hardware in small or isolated environments
- −Graphing-first: alerting requires plugins and is not a core strength
- −Interface and workflow are dated, and development pace is slow
Best for Small or isolated networks needing long-term interface graphing at no cost
Watch out Treat this as a graphing tool rather than a monitoring and alerting platform
nPro EMS
- +One-second polling resolution on a ClickHouse backend, so high-frequency collection is affordable
- +Ships with XDR and SIEM on the same stack — network and security events share one timeline
- +Distributed probes report centrally without exposing remote sites to the internet
- −Device and vendor template library is far smaller than the established monitoring tools here
- −Priced per agent rather than unlimited-device, which suits mixed estates less well than pure network ones
Best for Teams who want network and security monitoring on one platform rather than two
Watch out If you only need network monitoring, the specialists in this table have deeper device coverage
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Data last verified 2026-09-16. nPro publishes this comparison. Where nPro appears as one of the platforms listed, its card is marked and its scores are our own assessment. Third-party review scores are sourced from public vendor profiles. Structural facts — deployment model, licensing basis, residency — are verifiable against each vendor's documentation.