A-Packets
A-Packets analyzes PCAP and PCAPNG captures for incident response, forensics, and protocol inspection.
What A-Packets is
A-Packets analyzes PCAP and PCAPNG captures for incident response, forensics, and protocol inspection. It reconstructs HTTP sessions, maps communicating hosts and services, reviews wireless artifacts, extracts files, identifies credential exposure, and flags suspicious events. The hosted analyzer accepts native .pcap and .pcapng files generated by tools such as Wireshark and tcpdump. Public analysis is free without signup, accepts files up to 25 MB, and produces a public result page, so it is intended only for captures that can be shared. Paid workspace plans provide private reports and a REST API key; subscription analyses have permanent private storage controlled by the account holder, while credit-pack reports are deleted after 30 days. OnPrem supports customer-controlled storage and Docker Compose, Kubernetes with Helm, or air-gapped deployment. Its scope is case-by-case capture analysis; it does not decrypt TLS payloads, capture continuously, or alert.
Good
- Analyzes native PCAP and PCAPNG captures.
- Reconstructs HTTP sessions and maps hosts and services.
- Free public analysis requires no signup.
- Workspace plans include private reports and a REST API key.
- OnPrem supports air-gapped deployment.
Watch out
- Public analysis creates a public result page.
- Credit-pack reports are automatically deleted after 30 days.
- OnPrem does not decrypt TLS payloads or capture continuously.
- OnPrem does not provide alerts.
Who it suits
It suits SOC, DFIR, incident response, network security, network operations, MSSP, integration, and forensic teams analyzing packet captures. OnPrem may fit teams that need capture and report storage in customer-controlled infrastructure.
Verdict
A-Packets offers packet-capture analysis through a hosted service and an OnPrem option. Choose public analysis only for shareable captures, and note that OnPrem is case-by-case analysis rather than continuous capture or alerting.
Plans and prices
From A-Packets's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Public analysis | Free | 25 MB upload · public result page · sanitized captures · No signup |
| Starter Workspace | $11.99 a month | 25 MB file · 10 private files · private reports · REST API key · Per Month |
| Starter Workspace (monthly) | $11.99 a month | 25 MB file size · 10 private files · private reports · REST API key · Per Month |
| Starter Pack | $14.99, paid once | 3 private analyses · 25 MB maximum · expires in 6 months · One-time payment |
| Professional | $24.99 a month | 50 MB file · 50 private files · private reports · REST API key · Per Month |
| Professional (monthly) | $24.99 a month | 50 MB file size · 50 private files · private reports · REST API key · Per Month |
| Standard Pack | $44.99, paid once | 10 private analyses · 50 MB maximum · expires in 6 months · One-time payment |
| Advanced | $49.99 a month | 100 MB file · 100 private files · private reports · REST API key · Per Month |
| Advanced (monthly) | $49.99 a month | 100 MB file size · 100 private files · private reports · REST API key · Per Month |
| Starter Workspace (yearly) | $99 a year | 25 MB file size · 10 private files · private reports · REST API key · Billed once per year |
| Starter Workspace | $99 a year | 25 MB file · 10 private files · private reports · REST API key · Billed once per year |
| Pro Pack | $99.99, paid once | 25 private analyses · 50 MB maximum · expires in 6 months · One-time payment |
| Professional (yearly) | $199 a year | 50 MB file size · 50 private files · private reports · REST API key · Billed once per year |
| Professional | $199 a year | 50 MB file · 50 private files · private reports · REST API key · Billed once per year |
| Advanced | $399 a year | 100 MB file · 100 private files · private reports · REST API key · Billed once per year |
| Advanced (yearly) | $399 a year | 100 MB file size · 100 private files · private reports · REST API key · Billed once per year |
The facts
Each one read from A-Packets's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Analysis
- The analyzer reconstructs HTTP sessions, maps communicating hosts and services, reviews wireless artifacts, extracts files, identifies credential exposure, and flags suspicious events.checked 9 Oct 2026
- API
- The automation API supports PCAP upload, scheduled analysis and integrations; the REST upload endpoint uses a Bearer API key.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API availability
- The pricing page lists a REST API key on Starter Workspace, Professional and Advanced private plans.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The maker identifies SOC, DFIR, incident response, network security, network operations, MSSP, integration, and forensic teams as intended OnPrem users.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Availability limitation
- The terms warn that service availability, processing and results can be delayed, incomplete or inaccurate and are not guaranteed.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Cloud infrastructure
- Uploaded PCAP files and related data are stored using AWS S3 currently in the United States and MongoDB Atlas, whose region depends on the selected cluster and may include the United States.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Cloud security
- The maker says it encrypts data in transit and at rest, isolates private captures, and restricts personal information access to authorized personnel.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Credential detection
- Credential analysis covers HTTP Basic/Digest, SIP Digest, SMB, NTLM, Kerberos, LDAP, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Telnet and FTP artifacts.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data residency
- Hosted captures are stored in AWS S3 in the United States and MongoDB Atlas in a region dependent on the cluster.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- OnPrem supports Docker Compose, Kubernetes with Helm, and air-gapped deployments, with captures and reports stored in infrastructure controlled by the customer.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Event detection
- The analyzer highlights scans, insecure credential use and other suspicious patterns for analyst review.checked 15 Oct 2026
- File extraction
- A-Packets extracts images, office documents and other files embedded in captured traffic.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Hosted scale
- The About page reports more than 371,000 captures analyzed on the hosted service.checked 15 Oct 2026
- HTTP reconstruction
- The service rebuilds HTTP requests, responses, headers, forms and transferred content from captures.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Identity integrations
- OnPrem supports passkey 2FA, LDAP/Active Directory, SAML 2.0, OAuth providers and SCIM provisioning.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent caution
- The same write-up cautions readers to avoid uploading captures containing WPA handshakes, plaintext passwords or hashes when confidentiality matters.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent domain fact
- ScamAdviser reports a WHOIS registration date of 2019-04-11 and hosting through DigitalOcean.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent trust assessment
- ScamAdviser describes apackets.com as very likely legitimate and notes its valid SSL certificate.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent use example
- A security-training write-up uses A-Packets to identify a web server, malware delivery details and exfiltrated credentials from a capture.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- OnPrem supports local passkey two-factor authentication, LDAP/Active Directory, SAML 2.0, OAuth through Google, Microsoft, and GitHub, and SCIM provisioning.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Limit: Cloud-policy objection
- A LinkedIn commenter described uploading PCAPs to a cloud platform as unacceptable for environments that prohibit such transfers.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Sensitive-data risk
- Another LinkedIn commenter warned that uploading PCAPs can expose infrastructure maps and sensitive information.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Upload privacy concern
- A LinkedIn commenter questioned what uploaded data is covered by the privacy terms and said the wording appeared focused on contact data.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company disclosure
- The About page identifies A-Packets as an EU-based vendor but does not state a legal entity name, headquarters city, employee count or funding.checked 15 Oct 2026
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