Shodan

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

Top 10K 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.

20 of the 60 sites closest to Shodan match.

1. 01
   Censys censys.com English 3 trackers

   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.

   • Cloudflare
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Adobe
   • Apple Business
   • Atlassian

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2. 02
   VirusTotal virustotal.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

   VirusTotal

   VirusTotal

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Firebase
   • Google Cloud
   • Google Cloud DNS
   • Google Tag Manager

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3. 03
   urlscan urlscan.io English 1 tracker

   URL and website scanner - urlscan.io

   urlscan.io - Website scanner for suspicious and malicious URLs

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Bootstrap
   • Google Fonts
   • Mailchimp
   • Mailgun

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   Similarweb similarweb.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

   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.

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Atlassian
   • Amazon CloudFront
   • Google Fonts
   • Google Tag Manager

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5. 05
   Mojeek mojeek.com English No trackers

   Mojeek

   Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.

   • Fastmail
   • jQuery

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   Tavily tavily.com English 2 trackers

   Tavily

   Tavily is the real‑time search engine for AI agents — Fast and secure APIs for web search and content extraction.

   • Google Search Console
   • Atlassian
   • Amazon CloudFront
   • DocuSign
   • Google Tag Manager
   • HubSpot

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7. 07
   Sucuri sucuri.net English 4 trackers

   Sucuri - Complete Website Security, Protection & Monitoring

   Website security made simple—Sucuri offers fast malware cleanup, reliable monitoring, and powerful protection for any CMS.

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Google Fonts
   • Google Tag Manager
   • HubSpot
   • jQuery

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8. 08
   NetScout Systems netscout.com English 1 tracker

   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.

   • Font Awesome
   • Google Search Console
   • Adobe
   • Apple Business
   • Atlassian
   • Drupal

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9. 09
   IPinfo ipinfo.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

   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.

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Adobe Fonts
   • Google Cloud
   • Google Cloud DNS
   • HubSpot

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    Tenable® tenable.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    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.

    • Cloudflare
    • Google Search Console
    • Adobe
    • Apple Business
    • Atlassian
    • DocuSign

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    Group-IB group-ib.com English 2 trackers

    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.

    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Google Search Console
    • Apple Business
    • Atlassian
    • Cloudflare Web Analytics

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    HAProxy Technologies haproxy.com English 2 trackers

    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.

    • Alpine.js
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • Apple Business
    • Google Tag Manager
    • Microsoft 365
    • Plausible

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13. 13
    DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

    • Apple Business
    • Microsoft 365
    • Next.js
    • nginx
    • NS1
    • OpenAI

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    Semrush semrush.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    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.

    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Adobe
    • Amazon SES
    • Apple Business
    • Atlassian

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15. 15
    You.com you.com English 1 tracker

    You.com | Search and inference for AI

    The core AI infrastructure you need to maximize accuracy while reducing latency and costs.

    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Amazon SES
    • Apple Business

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    SolarWinds solarwinds.com English 1 tracker

    Observability, Database, and IT Service Management | SolarWinds

    Simple, powerful, secure hybrid IT observability and IT management software built to accelerate your transformation. Start a free trial today.

    • Google Search Console
    • Adobe Experience Platform Tags
    • Akamai Edge DNS
    • Apple Business
    • Atlassian
    • DocuSign

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    Fingerprint fingerprint.com English 3 trackers

    Fingerprint | Identify Every Web Visitor & Mobile Device

    The Fingerprint device intelligence platform works across web and mobile applications to identify all visitors with industry-leading accuracy — even if they’re anonymous.

    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Astro
    • Atlassian
    • Google Fonts
    • Google Tag Manager

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    Kentik kentik.com English 1 tracker

    Network Intelligence and Observability | Network Monitoring & DDoS Detection | Kentik

    Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Improve network observability, performance, and security. Network monitoring and analytics for traffic, routing, synthetic testing, and cloud.

    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Adobe
    • Apple Business
    • Atlassian
    • Contentful

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    Lycos lycos.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Home – Lycos

    search engine and web portal

    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Google Search Console
    • Bootstrap
    • Google Tag Manager
    • jsDelivr

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    OpenText opentext.com English No trackers

    OpenText | Secure Information Management for AI

    OpenText helps organizations securely manage and connect data across the enterprise, transforming data into trusted, AI-ready information.

    • Google Search Console
    • Adobe
    • Akamai
    • Akamai Edge DNS
    • Apple Business
    • Microsoft 365

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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

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.