# \[Pentesting\] The cost of cracking WPA2 (Wi-Fi) passwords in 2025

DevFeed: [\[Pentesting\] The cost of cracking WPA2 (Wi-Fi) passwords in 2025](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/pentesting-the-cost-of-cracking-wpa2-wi-fi-passwords-in-2025-20588.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://yurichev.com/blog/wifi/>)

Published: 2025-11-12T23:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Dennis Yurichev](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dennis-yurichev.md>)

Topics: [Wi-Fi](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wi-fi.md>), [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/passwords.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [linode](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linode.md>), [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/passwords.md>), [wi-fi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wi-fi.md>)

## AI overview

The article estimates the cost and speed of cracking WPA2 Wi-Fi passwords in 2025 using Hashcat benchmarks on an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and an RTX4000 Ada rented through Linode. It concludes that practical cracking is mainly limited to short passwords and dictionary-based attacks.

## Source excerpt

[Pentesting] The cost of cracking WPA2 (Wi-Fi) passwords in 2025