# Binary Ninja

> Vector 35's commercial interactive disassembler, decompiler and debugger, whose decompiler is built on the BNIL family of intermediate languages and shows either C or BNIL for every officially supported architecture. Depending on the edition it decompiles x86/x86-64, ARMv7/Thumb2, AArch64, PowerPC, MIPS, RISC-V, MSP430, 6502, nanoMIPS, TriCore, C-SKY, M·CORE, Hexagon, NDS32 and TMS320C6x, and it loads raw binaries and PE/COFF, ELF, Mach-O, TE, Intel HEX, Motorola S-Record, TI-TXT, MD1ROM and VxWorks files. C++, Python and Rust APIs automate analysis inside or outside the UI; the open-source debugger runs locally or remotely on Windows, Linux and macOS and also connects to GDB, LLDB and iOS debugserver targets; patches can be made by editing assembly, in the hex editor or with the bundled SCC compiler; and 6.0 added an MCP server. Ultimate adds Firmware Ninja for embedded firmware, which finds code and data regions by entropy and detects memory-mapped I/O accesses, while the EFI Resolver workflow types protocol usage in UEFI PEI, DXE and SMM modules.

- Type: Tool
- Targets: Binary · Firmware
- Category: Native analysis tools
- Relationship: Foundation tool
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-05
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-06
- Original resource: <https://binary.ninja/>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/binary-ninja/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/binary-ninja/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/binary-ninja/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Stable release at review: 6.0.10905 (6.0 Release 2, 2026-10-20), a bug-fix update to 6.0 (2026-09-03). One license covers Linux, macOS and Windows; tested hosts are Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 and macOS 15/26 (x64 or arm64) and Windows 10/11 (x64); minimums: 2 GHz multi-core CPU, 8 GB RAM, 4 GB disk. Needs Python 3.10+.
- **License:** Four editions: Free, Non-Commercial (Personal, non-commercial use only), Commercial and Ultimate. Paid licenses include a year of updates; versions released during support keep working after it. Online purchases are named licenses (one person, several machines). Only Commercial and Ultimate run plugins headlessly (import binaryninja without the GUI); Non-Commercial uses the API only from GUI-loaded plugins or the Python console.
- **License:** By edition, Free decompiles x86, x86-64, ARMv7, Thumb2 and AArch64; Non-Commercial and Commercial add PowerPC, MIPS, RISC-V, MSP430, 6502 and the MD1ROM loader; only Ultimate decompiles nanoMIPS, TriCore, C-SKY, M·CORE, Hexagon, NDS32 and TMS320C6x and has the VxWorks loader, Firmware Ninja, Binary Similarity and Ghidra Export.
- **Limits:** Free (non-commercial use or commercial evaluation) has no API or plugins and only disassembly, HLIL and Pseudo C views. The free browser-based Binary Ninja Cloud supports all architectures but requires uploading binaries to Vector 35, reads only PE, Mach-O and ELF, lacks API and plugins and has strict performance limits.

## Primary sources

1. <https://binary.ninja/>
2. <https://binary.ninja/features/>
3. <https://binary.ninja/purchase/>
4. <https://binary.ninja/free/>
5. <https://binary.ninja/faq/>
6. <https://docs.binary.ninja/about/requirements.html>
7. <https://docs.binary.ninja/guide/firmwareninja.html>
8. <https://docs.binary.ninja/guide/efiresolver.html>
9. <https://docs.binary.ninja/guide/debugger/index.html>
10. <https://binary.ninja/2026/09/03/binary-ninja-6.0-krypton.html>
11. <https://binary.ninja/2026/10/20/6.0-release-2.html>
12. <https://github.com/Vector35/binaryninja-api/releases/tag/stable/6.0.10905>

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