Radaria vs Hamina: an honest comparison

Hamina is the most modern thing that's happened to Wi-Fi design in years: a fast, cloud-native planner with AI-assisted floor-plan modeling, real-time heatmaps while you drag APs around, API integrations with the big Wi-Fi vendors, and an accessible subscription (Planner from $590 per 6 months; the Clip survey device + Onsite bundle launched at $990). If you design and validate Wi-Fi networks, Hamina deserves its hype — and its heatmaps are something Radaria doesn't offer yet.

Radaria plays a different game. Not “where should the APs go” but “why is the app slow when the coverage looks fine — and can you prove it?”

The differences that matter

1. Design-first vs evidence-first

Hamina's center of gravity is planning: model the building, place APs predictively, validate on site, push configs through vendor APIs. Radaria's center of gravity is diagnosis and documentation: walk the site, measure DNS / TCP / TLS / TTFB at every step, record synchronized video, produce an A–F verdict that a non-engineer can read. One is for building networks right; the other is for proving what a network actually does.

2. The application layer

Like every RF-first tool, Hamina's on-site survey measures coverage: signal, SNR, interference, across 2.4/5/6 GHz with the Nomad device. Radaria measures the full client experience: a complete HTTP probe per sample, with the four phases separated. A saturated DNS resolver or a slow TLS proxy is invisible to an RF survey — and it's the most common cause of “the Wi-Fi is slow” tickets.

3. Video evidence

Radaria's synchronized video replay — scan, probe, position and camera frame on one timeline — has no equivalent in Hamina (or anywhere else). For acceptance testing, audits, and consultant proof-of-work, it's the feature that changes the deliverable.

4. Hardware and monitoring

Hamina's Onsite surveys pair with the Oscium Nomad, a dedicated multi-radio device. Radaria runs on any Android 11+ and offers sentinel mode for continuous monitoring — a use case neither Hamina nor classic survey suites address without separate sensor products.

5. Pricing model

Hamina: subscription per product, hardware sold separately. Radaria: free during early access, no measurement hardware to buy. When we introduce pricing, early-access users get privileged terms (and 30 days' notice — it's on our pricing page).

Comparison table

When to choose which

Hamina if you design networks: predictive planning with a modern UX, vendor API round-trips, RF validation with proper multi-radio hardware. It's the planner we'd recommend to someone who finds Ekahau's pricing heavy.

Radaria if you need to diagnose and prove: per-layer application metrics, video evidence, verdicts readable by management, continuous monitoring on hardware you already own — including Zebra terminals in warehouses.

Design with Hamina, prove with Radaria: for an MSP the two together cover the whole lifecycle, at a combined cost that's still a fraction of the legacy suites.

Radaria measures what your users actually feel — with synchronized video evidence. Get the Android app or open a free cloud account.