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Sipfront Beat vs sip-exporter

Both stand on voip monitoring software. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Sipfront Beat

Free trial Self-hostedWeb

Beat combines scheduled synthetic calling with voice-quality measurements, alerting and reporting for a range of provider types. Its listed plans begin at €89 a month, and a 14-day trial is available.

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sip-exporter

Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted

sip-exporter provides detailed SIP and correlated media metrics for compatible IPv4/UDP traffic. Its capture limits and privileged deployment requirements are important considerations before using it.

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The facts

	Sipfront Beat	sip-exporter
Free plan	A free trial	Yes
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Self-hosted, Web	Linux, Self-hosted
Lowest paid plan	Starter: €89 a month	Free or on request
Plans published	4	1
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	sipfront.com	github.com
On voip monitoring software	#9 of 20	#5 of 20

Sipfront Beat: what it does well

Tests SIP URIs, phone numbers, trunks and PBX endpoints
Measures MOS, jitter, packet loss and RTT
Includes predefined test books for common checks
Alerts through Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, webhooks and email
Offers EU, US and APAC test agents

What to know first

No free plan
Starter includes two targets and one active schedule
Starter retention is seven days
On-prem test agents require Carrier or Enterprise

sip-exporter: what it does well

Reports SIP, RTP, and RTCP measures.
Includes jitter, packet loss, and MOS analysis.
Provides a Grafana dashboard and alert-rule examples.
Free for commercial use with AGPL-3.0 conditions.

What to know first

Does not capture SIP over TCP or TLS.
IPv6 and fragmented UDP are unsupported.
Requires privileged access and host networking.
Needs visibility into signaling and media on the same path.

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