Scanopy vs Faddom

Scanopy is for IT teams and MSPs who want a dedicated network diagram automation tool which works alongside their existing monitoring platform. Faddom is for enterprise IT teams mapping application dependencies for data center migrations and cloud transitions. The table below puts the two side by side on discovery, the four topology views, pricing, and licensing, including Faddom's trade-offs.

Scanopy vs Faddom: head to head

How they compare

Faddom and Scanopy sit in the same broad category — both can map application dependencies — but they get there from opposite directions, and they don't fully overlap. Faddom is a dedicated agentless application dependency mapping (ADM) platform: it observes network traffic (NetFlow, sFlow, or a packet copy) and automatically infers which servers and services depend on each other, aimed at data-center migrations and cloud moves. It does no Layer 2/3 network topology at all — there are no switch-port or subnet maps. Scanopy comes at it from the other side: it maps L2 and L3 network topology, workloads, and applications, with the application view being user-defined grouping on top of automatic service discovery.

The trade-off is automatic app-dependency inference versus network topology and price. Faddom's free tier covers 50 servers, but paid plans start at $19,000/year, which puts it out of reach for SMB and mid-market budgets, and it needs NetFlow/sFlow or port mirroring to capture traffic. Scanopy is flat monthly with unlimited hosts, commercially self-hostable, or free under AGPL-3.0, needs no traffic-capture setup, and adds the network-layer views Faddom lacks. If you need automatic, traffic-derived application dependencies for a migration and can fund the price floor, Faddom is the better fit. If you need network topology plus application grouping in one affordable tool, Scanopy is.

On the application view itself, Faddom's automation is the stronger of the two, and it's worth saying plainly: Faddom builds the dependency map automatically from observed traffic, where Scanopy has you define the application grouping yourself on top of automatic service discovery. If you want the app map to draw itself — and you'll set up traffic capture — that's a real Faddom advantage. Scanopy's case isn't that it's uniquely four-view; it's that it covers all four views and stays affordable and self-hostable.

When to choose which

Choose Scanopy when: You want network topology over application dependency mapping: automatic L2, L3, workload, and application views, per-host service detection, flat pricing regardless of host count, and a free, self-hostable Community edition. It sits alongside your monitoring stack rather than replacing it.

Choose Faddom when: Mid-to-large enterprise IT operations teams planning migrations or cloud moves who need an automatic picture of application dependencies without deploying agents. The public pricing and 50-server free tier make it evaluable without a sales process, which is unusual for ADM.

This is a focused, two-tool comparison.Weighing other options too? See the best Faddom alternatives. For all 13 tools side by side, see the full comparison of automated network diagram tools.

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