# bettercap

bettercap is a Red-Team & Adversary Emulation product. It runs on-premises. Pricing is free.

A powerful and extensible framework for reconnaissance and attacking various networks and devices.

Checked October 2026.

## What is bettercap?

bettercap is a powerful, easily extensible and portable framework written in Go which aims to offer to security researchers, red teamers and reverse engineers an easy to use, all-in-one solution with all the features they might possibly need for performing reconnaissance and attacking WiFi networks, Bluetooth Low Energy devices, wireless HID devices and Ethernet networks.
Main Features:
- WiFi networks scanning, deauthentication attack, clientless PMKID association attack and automatic WPA/WPA2 client handshakes capture.
- Bluetooth Low Energy devices scanning, characteristics enumeration, reading and writing.
- 2.4Ghz wireless devices scanning and MouseJacking attacks with over-the-air HID frames injection (with DuckyScript support).
- Passive and active IP network hosts probing and recon.
- ARP, DNS, NDP and DHCPv6 spoofers for MITM attacks on IPv4 and IPv6 based networks.
- Proxies at packet level, TCP level and HTTP/HTTPS application level fully scriptable with easy to implement javascript plugins.
- A powerful network sniffer for credentials harvesting which can also be used as a network protocol fuzzer.
- A very fast port scanner.
- A powerful REST API with support for asynchronous events notification.

Tags: Wireless Security, Network Reconnaissance

## Quick facts

- Category: [Offensive Security](https://cybersectools.com/categories/offensive-security-testing) · [Red-Team & Adversary Emulation](https://cybersectools.com/categories/offensive-security)
- Deployment: On-Premises
- Company size fit: Startup, SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
- Pricing model: Free
- GitHub stars: 18,936
- Website: github.com

## bettercap FAQ

### What is bettercap?

bettercap is a product in the Red-Team & Adversary Emulation category. It covers Wireless Security and Network Reconnaissance.

### What is the pricing for bettercap?

bettercap is free. Download and setup instructions are at https://github.com/bettercap/bettercap/.

### What are alternatives to bettercap?

Alternatives to bettercap listed on CybersecTools:

1. [Fortra Cobalt Strike](https://cybersectools.com/tools/fortra-cobalt-strike) - Threat emulation product for adversary simulations and red team operations (Commercial)
2. [Trickest Attack Surface Management](https://cybersectools.com/tools/trickest-attack-surface-management) - Platform for offensive security operations including ASM, VA, and DAST (Commercial)
3. [GoSecure Titan® Adversarial Simulation](https://cybersectools.com/tools/gosecure-titanr-adversarial-simulation) - Human-led adversary emulation service testing detection & response capabilities (Commercial)
4. [Core Security Cobalt Strike](https://cybersectools.com/tools/core-security-cobalt-strike) - Post-exploitation threat emulation platform for red team operations. (Commercial)
5. [Dreadnode Offensive Security Agents](https://cybersectools.com/tools/dreadnode-offensive-security-agents) - AI agent platform for automating offensive security operations and evals. (Commercial)

Compare all bettercap alternatives at [https://cybersectools.com/alternatives/bettercap](https://cybersectools.com/alternatives/bettercap)

### What deployment and organization size does bettercap fit?

bettercap is available as on-premises software. It is listed for startups, small businesses, mid-market companies and enterprises. It is free.

## Compare bettercap with similar solutions

- [bettercap vs Fortra Cobalt Strike](https://cybersectools.com/compare/bettercap-vs-fortra-cobalt-strike)
- [bettercap vs Trickest Attack Surface Management](https://cybersectools.com/compare/bettercap-vs-trickest-attack-surface-management)
- [bettercap vs GoSecure Titan® Adversarial Simulation](https://cybersectools.com/compare/bettercap-vs-gosecure-titanr-adversarial-simulation)

All alternatives to bettercap: [/alternatives/bettercap](https://cybersectools.com/alternatives/bettercap)

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