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.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Shodan

Shodan shodan.io

Search Engine for the Internet of Things

Wikidata: American web search engine

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

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Shodan 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 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 and search numbers · 5 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,221
Vector: 384-d
Query: 34 ms

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.