Emulate. Automate. Ship.
The modern network lab - a distributed digital twin, execution and automation platform for engineers who've outgrown EVE-NG.
GNS3 + EVE-NG + Terraform + NetBox - rebuilt as one API-first, event-driven platform.
Run the gear you actually ship.
QEMU/KVM under the hood means real vendor images - the same IOS-XE, Junos, EOS and PAN-OS you run in production. 140+ device kinds across 70+ vendors, with automatic image fixes on every upload.
A real lab for
every classroom.
Teachers build network, coding or web labs and push them to every student in one click. Students log in from any device - thin PCs, Chromebooks, home laptops - and work in their own isolated sandbox. No hardware, no installs, no cost to your school.
You don't have to pay.
But here's what you can't buy elsewhere.
EVE-NG Community is free - and was designed in 2007. netplex. Community is also free, with a React canvas, live terminal, packet capture and an API included. This is the honest scorecard - ✓ full, - partial, ✗ none.
| EVE-NG Community | EVE-NG Pro | GNS3 | Containerlab | netplex. |
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EVE-NG Pro is ~$160/yr, locked to one server MAC, so a reinstall means a relicence call. netplex. Professional is $199/yr, runs anywhere, and adds snapshots, fault injection and app nodes; Architect ($499/yr) adds presentation mode and the full automation toolbox. Import your .unl in 30 seconds. Beta The multi-host VXLAN stitch is on the roadmap and shown as partial while it's in beta; single-host emulation and the full local toolbox ship today.
Stop setting up labs.
Start engineering.
Emulate
A circuit-board canvas you'll actually want to look at. Drag nodes, draw links in four styles, capture packets live on any wire, and watch real traffic move - not invented Gbps numbers.
Automate
Everything the UI does is an API call. Scoped REST + WebSocket keys, a Terraform provider, an Ansible collection and a full tc/netem QoS suite - the automation story EVE-NG never had.
Ship
Labs become code you keep in your own Git, with automatic backup on every stop. Pipeline a fresh topology on every commit, verify, and catch breakage before production.
Half your lab at home.
Half in the cloud.
One canvas. One click.
Our headline differentiator - stitch topology segments across physical machines, cloud VMs and office labs into one unified topology over encrypted VXLAN, transparent to the emulated devices. Your BGP adjacency doesn't know - or care - where the iron is.
Distributed multi-chassis VXLAN is on the roadmap (in beta) - single-host emulation and automation ship today.
- Outgrow a single box without buying a bigger server
- Each host gets a colour; nodes glow to show where they live
The link doesn't care which machine a node lives on.
Start free. Pay when you scale.
No artificial cripple-ware - the product is great at every tier. Architect is a single seat with the complete automation toolbox. Professional starts at $19.99/month.
- 1,000 nodes per lab
- 1 live lab
- Full engine (KVM/QEMU, Docker, namespaces, Dynamips)
- In-browser SSH & serial consoles
- Integrated packet capture (browser-native)
- Licence-free nodes that boot on install
- Instant device CLI - FRR & VyOS, no image upload
- Import & export labs (EVE / GNS3 / .netplex)
- 1 Mbps per link
- 1,000 nodes · unlimited live labs
- Uncapped link speed
- GUI traffic generator + analyser
- GUI multicast generator + receiver
- One-click app nodes (Wireshark, Kali, desktops)
- Built-in VNC & RDP consoles
- Any Docker image (Hub / GHCR)
- Snapshots · freeze · Git backup
- 2-machine VXLAN fabricroadmap
- Everything in Professional, plus:
- Config management as code (templates + drift)
- Network Git versioning - diff, branch, rollbackroadmap
- Intent validation · pre-merge pipelines (pyATS / Batfish)roadmap
- Ansible + Terraform (ACI, Meraki, Apstra, NSX · scoped API keys)
- QoS impairment · fault injection
- Flow animation · metrics dashboard + gNMI
- microVM & LXC/LXD runtimes
- 4-machine VXLAN fabricroadmap
- Everything in Team, plus:
- Unlimited nodes & labs
- SSO / AD
- Multi-tenant namespaces · audit log
- Offline / HW-bound licensing
- Compute cluster · ∞ VXLAN fabricroadmap
- S3 / self-hosted git
- SLA + named contact
Team (~$49/seat) adds collaboration & roles · Class is free for every Australian school - install + teacher training included · See full pricing →
Built by network engineers,
for network engineers.
netplex. is designed and built in Australia by people who lived inside EVE-NG, PNETLAB and GNS3 for years - and got tired of SSH-ing in to run fixpermissions. Every decision is made by engineers who use it daily, not a marketing department.
Stop tolerating the old tools.
Import your EVE-NG lab, start on the free Associate tier, and never run fixpermissions again.
Associate tier free forever · no credit card