| Area | Feature | Medusa 2.2 | Hydra 7.1 | Ncrack 0.4ALPHA | 
  | * | License | GPL-2 | GPL-3 | GPL-2 | 
  | Core | Parallel Method | pthread | fork() |  | 
  | Service Design | Modular | Built-in |  | 
  | Speed (several comparisons are included below) | ? | ? | ? | 
  | Generic Wrapper Module |  | √ |  |  | 
  | AFP |  | √ | √ |  | 
  | CVS |  | √ | √ |  | 
  | FTP | FTP | √ | √ | √ | 
  | Explicit FTPS (AUTH TLS Mode as defined in RFC 4217) | √ | √ | √ | 
  | Implicit FTPS (FTP over SSL (990/tcp) | √ | √ | √ | 
  | HTTP | Basic Auth | √ | √ | √ | 
  | NTLM Auth (Windows Integrated) | √ | √ |  | 
  | Digest Authentication | MD5, MD5-sess | MD5 |  | 
  | HTTP Proxy |  |  | √ |  | 
  | ICQ |  |  | √ |  | 
  | IMAP | Method LOGIN Support | √ | √ |  | 
  | Method AUTH-PLAIN Support | √ | √ |  | 
  | Method AUTH-NTLM Support | √ | √ |  | 
  | SSL Support | IMAPS, STARTTLS | IMAPS, STARTTLS |  | 
  | LDAP |  |  | √ |  | 
  | Microsoft SQL | Port Auto-Detection | √ |  |  | 
  | MS-SQL | √ | √ |  | 
  | MySQL | Pre-4.1 Authentication | √ | √ |  | 
  | Pre-4.1 Hash Passing | √ |  |  | 
  | 4.1+ Authentication | √ | √ |  | 
  | NCP (NetWare) |  | √ (ncpfs) | √ (ncpfs) |  | 
  | NNTP |  | √ (Original AUTHINFO) | √ (Original AUTHINFO) |  | 
  | Oracle | Database | √ (via Wrapper script) |  |  | 
  | Listener |  |  |  | 
  | SID |  | √ |  | 
  | PcAnywhere | Supported Encryption Level | None | None |  | 
  | Supported Authenication Mode(s) | Native PCA, ADS, NT, Windows | Native PCA |  | 
  | PCNFS |  |  | √ |  | 
  | POP3 | Method AUTH-USER Support | √ | √ | √ | 
  | Method AUTH-LOGIN Support | √ | √ |  | 
  | Method AUTH-PLAIN Support | √ | √ |  | 
  | Method AUTH-NTLM Support | √ | √ |  | 
  | SSL Support | POP3S, STARTTLS | POP3S | POP3S, STARTTLS | 
  | PostgreSQL |  | √ | √ |  | 
  | RDP (Terminal Server) |  | √ | √ | √ | 
  | Pass the Hash Support | √ |  |  | 
  | REXEC |  | √ | √ |  | 
  | RLOGIN | .rhost Support | √ |  |  | 
  | Password Support | √ | √ |  | 
  | RSH |  | √ | √ |  | 
  | SAPR3 |  |  | √ |  | 
  | SIP |  |  | √ |  | 
  | SMB (Microsoft Windows/Samba) | Authentication Modes | clear-text, LMv1, NTLMv1, LMv2, NTLMv2 | clear-text, LMv1, NTLMv1, LMv2, NTLMv2 | Unknown | 
  | Hash Passing | √ | √ |  | 
  | Access Detection (ADMIN$) | √ |  |  | 
  | SMTP | Method AUTH-LOGIN Support | √ | √ |  | 
  | Method AUTH-PLAIN Support | √ | √ |  | 
  | Method AUTH-NTLM Support | √ | √ |  | 
  | SSL Support | STARTTLS | STARTTLS |  | 
  | VRFY | √ | √ |  | 
  | EXPN | √ |  |  | 
  | RCPT TO | √ |  |  | 
  | SNMP |  | √ (significantly faster design) | √ (overwrites sysName with "HYDRA") |  | 
  | SOCKS5 |  |  | √ |  | 
  | SSHv2 |  | √ (libssh2) | √ (libssh) | √ | 
  | SVN |  | √ | √ |  | 
  | TeamSpeak |  |  | √ |  | 
  | Telnet | Generic Telnet | √ | √ | √ | 
  | Cisco (AAA/non-AAA) | √ | √ | √ | 
  | Cisco enable password |  | √ |  | 
  | AS/400 (TN5250) Support | √ |  |  | 
  | VNC | Password-less/Password-only Support | √ | √ |  | 
  | Anti-Brute Force Slowdown Support | √ |  |  | 
  | Username/Password Support |  |  |  | 
  | VmWare Authentication Daemon | Non-SSL Authentication | √ | √ |  | 
  | SSL Authentication | √ |  |  | 
  | Web Form Module |  | √ | √ |  |