# YARI

YARI is a Detection Engineering product. It runs on-premises. Pricing is free.

A YARA interactive debugger for the YARA language written in Rust, providing features like function calls, constant evaluation, and string matching.

Checked October 2026.

## What is YARI?

YARI - YARA Interactive Interactive debugger for the YARA language written in Rust. Debugger directly calls libyara avoiding emulation to get the most accurate results. 🚀 Features: Call functions from modules Get the value of module constants Evaluate complex expressions Check the matches of strings Support for external variables Integration with YARA Language Server For more information, check out: Blog post Wiki Installation To setup your environment please follow instructions from the YLS wiki. Interactive shell Binary accepts the same arguments as original yara binary. λ yari /bin/sh >> elf.number_of_sections Integer(26) >> License Copyright (c) 2022 Avast Software, licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more details. YARI and its related projects uses third-party libraries or other resources listed, along with their licenses, in the yari-sys/LICENSE-THIRD-PARTY file. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)

Tags: Reverse Engineering, YARA

## Quick facts

- Category: [Security Operations](https://cybersectools.com/categories/security-operations) · [Detection Engineering](https://cybersectools.com/categories/detection-engineering)
- Deployment: On-Premises
- Company size fit: Startup, SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
- Pricing model: Free
- GitHub stars: 90
- Website: github.com

## Where it ranks

No shortlist covers this product's category yet. The closest is [Best MDR Solutions for Business](https://cybersectools.com/shortlists/best-mdr-solutions).

## YARI FAQ

### What is YARI?

YARI is a product in the Detection Engineering category. It covers Reverse Engineering and YARA.

### What is the pricing for YARI?

YARI is free. Download and setup instructions are at https://github.com/avast/yari/.

### What are alternatives to YARI?

Alternatives to YARI listed on CybersecTools:

1. [Google Security Operations](https://cybersectools.com/tools/google-security-operations) - Cloud-native SIEM, SOAR, and threat intel platform for SecOps teams (Commercial)

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

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

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

## Compare YARI with similar solutions

- [YARI vs Google Security Operations](https://cybersectools.com/compare/google-security-operations-vs-yari)

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