Mikhmon, short for MikroTik Hotspot Monitor, is the free tool many hotspot operators start with. This page explains what it does, using its own GitHub repository (laksa19/mikhmonv3) as read on 6 November 2026, and where a billing platform such as Iterative Billing differs.
Short answer: Mikhmon is a free, open-source PHP application under the GPL-2.0 licence that manages MikroTik hotspot users, profiles and vouchers through the RouterOS API. Its changelog's latest version is V3.20 from 30 June 2021, and the repository was last updated in January 2024. It generates and prints vouchers and records a selling price, but its README lists no payment gateway, so vouchers are sold by hand. Iterative Billing adds self-purchase by mobile money on the captive portal, RADIUS accounting and PPPoE billing, for 2 percent of collected hotspot revenue capped at $27 a month. If you print vouchers for one router and sell them yourself, Mikhmon costs nothing. We build Iterative Billing, so check both.
What Mikhmon does
Mikhmon connects to a MikroTik router over the API and works with the router's own hotspot users and profiles. Its changelog covers voucher generation and printing with templates and QR codes, a selling price shown on the voucher, user profiles with expiry handling, traffic charts, CSV export, several languages, and printing from Android, with notes for running it under Termux.
What paid WiFi needs beyond a voucher manager
Once a hotspot grows past one site, operators usually want customers to buy access without an attendant, sales per agent and per site, and one place for several routers. Iterative Billing's captive portal takes M-Pesa, MTN MoMo and Airtel Money, Paystack, Flutterwave, Pesapal or WaafiPay and connects the customer when payment is confirmed. Vouchers are still there for walk-ins and agents, with sales and redemptions tracked per batch, and RADIUS records every session. The same account runs PPPoE home customers. See hotspot billing software for the full list.
What it costs
Mikhmon is free; you supply the computer or hosting it runs on. Iterative Billing charges 2 percent of the hotspot revenue it collects: $10 a month on $500 collected, and never more than $27 a month until you collect $5,400. The monthly minimum is $9 and the one-time account fee is $9. In Kenya the same share is billed in shillings and capped at KSh 3,000 a month up to KSh 600,000 collected.
Moving from Mikhmon
There is no Mikhmon importer, and none is needed for vouchers. Set up bundles and a portal on the platform, point the MikroTik hotspot at its RADIUS, and the vouchers already on the router keep working until they run out, because RouterOS checks its local hotspot users before asking RADIUS. New sales then go through the platform.
Which should you choose?
Keep Mikhmon if you run one small hotspot, sell printed vouchers yourself and want no running cost. Move to Iterative Billing when you want customers to pay on the portal, track agents and sites, or add home connections. Apply for Iterative Billing at billing.iterativebilling.com/register (approved networks get a 3-day trial), and the caps are on the pricing page. Mikhmon 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 Mikhmon still maintained?
- Its GitHub repository, read on 6 November 2026, shows the latest changelog version as V3.20 from 30 June 2021 and the last update to the repository in January 2024.
- Can customers pay for WiFi in Mikhmon?
- Mikhmon's README lists voucher generation, printing and a selling price, but no payment gateway, so vouchers are sold by hand. Iterative Billing's captive portal takes mobile money and card payments and connects the customer automatically.
- Will my Mikhmon vouchers stop working if I switch?
- No. Vouchers created on the router stay in its local hotspot user list, and RouterOS checks local users before RADIUS, so they keep working until they expire.