shodan.io
Shodan
Who runs Shodan, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest internet scanning and attack surface intelligence alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Censys
Measured from Shodan’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Shodan01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Shodan
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Shodan 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
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 16 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Shodan’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Shodan
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Shodan, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Censys | The Authority for Internet Intelligence and Insights
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.
Very close - 02
网络空间测绘，网络空间安全搜索引擎，网络空间搜索引擎，安全态势感知 - FOFA网络空间测绘系统
FOFA 是白帽汇推出的一款网络空间搜索引擎，它通过进行网络空间测绘，能够帮助研究人员或者企业迅速进行网络资产匹配，例如进行漏洞影响范围分析、应用分布统计、应用流行度排名统计等。
Very close - 03
GreyNoise | Real-Time Network Threat Intelligence
The network edge is your blind spot. GreyNoise delivers real-time threat intelligence to detect active exploitation, uncover compromised devices, and investigate attacks as they happen.
Very close - 04
Real-Time Threat Intelligence With Unmatched Internet Visibility
Scanners and feeds see the edge. Team Cymru, the threat intelligence company trusted by 1,000+ partners, sees adversary infrastructure as it forms.
Very close - 05
VirusTotal
VirusTotal
Very close - 06
URL and website scanner - urlscan.io
urlscan.io - Website scanner for suspicious and malicious URLs
Very close - 07
Google
search engine by Google LLC
Very close - 08
Ahrefs—AI Marketing Platform Powered by Big Data
We help marketers drive visibility across AI search, SEO, content, and social – with the largest AI and search databases online.
Very close - 09
Similarweb: AI-Powered Digital Data Intelligence Solutions
Similarweb is an AI-powered digital data company providing real-time market intelligence, competitive insights, and consumer trends to accelerate business growth.
Very close - 10
Mojeek
Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.
Very close - 11
Tavily
Tavily is the real‑time search engine for AI agents — Fast and secure APIs for web search and content extraction.
Very close - 12
Sucuri - Complete Website Security, Protection & Monitoring
Website security made simple—Sucuri offers fast malware cleanup, reliable monitoring, and powerful protection for any CMS.
Very close - 13
NETSCOUT Observability, Cybersecurity, DDoS, & AIOps Solutions
Drive observability, cybersecurity, DDoS protection, and AIOps initiatives with NETSCOUT's AI-ready data platform. Observe and secure your entire network with end-to-end visibility.
Very close - 14
IP Data Intelligence for Developers & Enterprises | IPinfo
IPinfo, the trusted global leader in IP address data and intelligence. Powering applications and security solutions for developers and businesses.
Very close - 15
Vulnerability and exposure management | Cloud and AI security | Tenable®
The leader in exposure management and AI security, Tenable cybersecurity solutions reduce cyber risk across IT, OT, cloud, identity & hybrid attack surfaces.
Very close - 16
Group-IB | Prediction-First Cybersecurity and Anti-Fraud
Prediction-First cybersecurity built on collective defense. Group-IB unites cyber and fraud through cyber-fraud fusion to act before attackers and fraudsters complete their next move.
Very close - 17
HAProxy Technologies | Powering the World's Busiest Applications
Simplify, scale, and secure modern applications, APIs, and AI services in any environment. HAProxy Technologies is the company behind HAProxy.
Very close - 18
DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
Very close - 19
Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility
Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.
Very close - 20
You.com | Search and inference for AI
The core AI infrastructure you need to maximize accuracy while reducing latency and costs.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Shodan’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Shodan uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Shodan 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,193
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Shodan’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://kit.fontawesome.com/b7e79643d9.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56307f1ae8a3083-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS ed.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=FZDvThk3fhaZTnxohWox3OG5lW9dpsPUc9rDNV0al18
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on shodan.io 14/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on shodan.io 11/20
- HubSpot · not on shodan.io 11/20
- Apple Business · not on shodan.io 10/20
- OpenAI · not on shodan.io 9/20
- Zoom · not on shodan.io 9/20
- Atlassian · not on shodan.io 8/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Google Fonts · not on shodan.io 7/20
- PHP · not on shodan.io 7/20
- Stripe · not on shodan.io 6/20
- Adobe · not on shodan.io 5/20
- DocuSign · not on shodan.io 5/20
- Google Cloud DNS · not on shodan.io 4/20