daloRADIUS is the long-running web interface for FreeRADIUS, and ISPs who build their own AAA server often add it for user management and simple billing. This comparison uses its GitHub repository (lirantal/daloradius), read on 6 November 2026. Its claims are reported, not endorsed.
Short answer: daloRADIUS is free under the GPL-2.0 licence. It manages FreeRADIUS users, hotspots and accounting, draws usage graphs and a hotspot map, and has a billing section with point of sale, plans, rates, invoices, payments and PayPal transactions. You install and run it yourself with FreeRADIUS and MariaDB; its latest release is 2.4, from 8 October 2026. Iterative Billing builds FreeRADIUS into a managed billing platform, with CoA, mobile money and MikroTik provisioning, for $0.135 per active customer outside Kenya, capped at $45 up to 500 customers. We build Iterative Billing, so check both.
The two platforms at a glance
daloRADIUS describes itself as an advanced RADIUS web management application for hotspots and general-purpose ISP deployments. Its README lists user and hotspot management, accounting by user, IP, NAS or date, open-session maintenance, graphs per user and server-wide, an OpenStreetMap view of hotspots, logs, a connectivity test and user disconnect, and English and Russian interfaces. The project now recommends an external tool such as Zabbix for monitoring the services.
Iterative Billing is a cloud ISP billing and OSS/BSS platform with built-in FreeRADIUS and CoA, MikroTik RouterOS v6 and v7, Huawei GPON OLT automation, TR-069, NOC monitoring and AI agents. It collects M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Airtel Money, Paystack, Flutterwave, Pesapal and WaafiPay payments into the operator's own merchant accounts. Outside Kenya it charges $0.135 per active PPPoE or Static IP customer a month, capped at $45 up to 500 customers, $90 up to 1,000 and $360 above that, plus 2 percent of collected hotspot revenue capped at $27 a month up to $5,400 collected and $45 above it, with a $9 monthly minimum and a one-time $9 account fee. Optional add-ons are billed on top: every add-on together is $71 a month in the Legacy Partner bundle, with OLTs at $10 each.
What each covers
| Area | daloRADIUS | Iterative Billing |
|---|---|---|
| RADIUS server | Your own FreeRADIUS | Built-in FreeRADIUS, configured by the platform |
| Billing | POS, plans, rates, invoices, payments | Prepaid and recurring plans tied to RADIUS status |
| Online payments | PayPal transactions | M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Airtel Money, Paystack, Flutterwave, Pesapal, WaafiPay |
| Router provisioning | Not covered in its README | MikroTik PPPoE profiles, queues, pools and hotspot users |
| Hosting and upkeep | You run it | Included |
When daloRADIUS is the right tool
If you need a general-purpose FreeRADIUS front end for many kinds of NAS, want full control of the database and have someone to run Linux, daloRADIUS costs nothing and is still actively released. Iterative Billing's RADIUS serves MikroTik routers on RouterOS v6 and v7.
Moving from daloRADIUS
Export your users with their usernames, passwords, plans and expiry dates to CSV and import PPPoE customers with a preview before anything is created. Migration assistance is complimentary. Point each MikroTik at the platform's RADIUS details and enable incoming CoA; the RADIUS billing server page and the MikroTik PPPoE setup guide walk through it.
Which should you choose?
Keep daloRADIUS if you want to own and run the AAA stack for mixed equipment. Choose Iterative Billing if you would rather have RADIUS, billing, payments and MikroTik provisioning run for you at a capped monthly fee. Apply for Iterative Billing at billing.iterativebilling.com/register (approved networks get a 3-day trial), and the caps are on the pricing page. daloRADIUS details are from its public repository and may change. We keep the same date-stamped comparisons for Splynx, Centipid and the other platforms on the alternatives page.
Frequently asked questions
- Is daloRADIUS a billing system?
- Partly. daloRADIUS is a web management application for FreeRADIUS with a billing section covering point of sale, plans, rates, invoices, payments and PayPal transactions. You run it yourself alongside FreeRADIUS and MariaDB.
- Is daloRADIUS still maintained?
- Yes. Its GitHub repository, read on 6 November 2026, shows release 2.4 published on 8 October 2026.
- Do I still need FreeRADIUS with Iterative Billing?
- No separate server. Iterative Billing runs FreeRADIUS inside the platform and configures it automatically, with CoA for live plan changes, at no extra charge.