Abstract: Mobile Ad Hoc Networks are formed by devices that are able to communicate with each other using a wireless physical medium without having a route to a preexisting network infrastructure.Mobile means moving and Ad Hoc means temporary without any fixed infrastructure so mobile ad hoc networks are a kindof temporary networks in which nodes are moving without any fixed infrastructure or centralized administration. In this paper, we evaluate simulation and analysis based performance comparison of reactive and hybrid routing protocols: we use performance metric for simulation number of hop count, number of routes selected, RREQ packets forwarded, RREP packets received and number of update Packets/Messages receivedby above routing protocols has been carried out using QualNet 5.0 Simulator. The result shows that neither of the protocol is best in all situations. For some parameters one outperforms the other and vice-versa for some other parameters.