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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

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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

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Shodan, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

3 of the 60 sites closest to Shodan match.

  1. 01
    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.

    Compare Semrush with Shodan →
  2. 02
    GitBook gitbook.com English Free plan 6 trackers

    The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook

    GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.

    Compare GitBook with Shodan →
  3. 03
    GitLab gitlab.com Top 1K English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering

    Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.

    Compare GitLab with Shodan →

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 = 60
Sites searched
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
52 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.

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