censys.io
Censys
Who runs Censys, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest threat intelligence alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Shodan
Measured from Censys’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Censys01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Censys
Censys censys.io
Censys empowers security teams with the most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date map of the internet to defend attack surfaces and hunt for threats.
Wikidata: cybersecurity company and search engine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Censys tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
15 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 4 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Censys
None of the 60 sites closest to Censys match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Censys adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 24 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://censys.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:sendg…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5779d40fef462b8-HAM
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/swiper@12/swiper-bundle.min.js?ver=12
- Hosting
- WP Engine header x-powered-by: WP Engine
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms28544701
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:sendg…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:sendg…
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-e3.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=95b30abf0fb761095c8b1060d12da2f11e3576800…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=nM8bqNQWofKOWUwz
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=4T9gkcNa0K5KMVGlQ3koS4sZ925aIdNUxZ1rUg6…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=9HOXHZIWT2PZgIOg5IMIqw
- DocuSign TXT docusign=3ca0a77b-71b9-410f-81f0-8ad68d1bdbbc
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: ewTT7I4zDcdTpDAv6WnLfoAhI3CbAai25xh1wZWQOyQ
- Miro TXT miro-verification=ee7e74fe433d7c4173f56b89c9b2205986703937
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_Zxf3OIdKTVWYBJtB4z9SeQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Cloudflare 14/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Google Tag Manager 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on censys.io 9/20
- HubSpot 9/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- Google Fonts 6/20
- jsDelivr 5/20
- OpenAI · not on censys.io 5/20
- Adobe 5/20
- DocuSign 5/20
- PHP 5/20
- jQuery 4/20