virustotal.com
VirusTotal
Who runs VirusTotal, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest malware scanning and threat intelligence alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- urlscan
Measured from VirusTotal’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit VirusTotal01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs VirusTotal
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What VirusTotal 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
8 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 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.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to VirusTotal
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to VirusTotal, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to VirusTotal match.
We can’t read virustotal.com’s homepage (too little text on the homepage), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
URL and website scanner - urlscan.io
urlscan.io - Website scanner for suspicious and malicious URLs
Very close - 02
Hybrid Analysis
Free automated malware analysis service powered by CrowdStrike Falcon Sandbox. Submit files and URLs for deep behavioral analysis and threat detection.
Very close - 03
ANY.RUN - Interactive Online Malware Sandbox
Cloud-based malware analysis service. Take your information security to the next level. Analyze suspicious and malicious activities using our innovative tools.
Very close - 04
Shodan Search Engine
Search Engine for the Internet of Things
Very close - 05
Feedly Threat Intelligence: Collect, analyze, and share actionable intelligence
Feedly Threat Intelligence is the leading solution to collect, analyze, and share actionable cyber threat intel like vulnerabilities, cyberattacks, threat actors, and IoCs.
Very close - 06
abuse.ch | Fighting malware and botnets
abuse.ch | Fighting malware and botnets
Very close - 07
Flashpoint | Threat Intelligence With Industry-Best Data
Flashpoint's industry-leading threat intelligence platform is trusted for physical security, fraud prevention, operational intel, and more.
Very close - 08
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 - 09
Strengthening trust and safety across the internet | Spamhaus
Strengthening trust and safety online through IP and domain reputation intelligence, expertise, education, and community collaboration.
Very close - 10
Cybersecurity & Threat Intelligence Services | Webroot
American Private company that provides Internet security for consumers and businesses
Very close - 11
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 - 12
Threat Intelligence & Domain Security Platform | DomainTools
DomainTools provides DNS-based threat intelligence covering 97% of internet infrastructure. Detect, investigate & block malicious domains. Request a demo.
Very close - 13
All-in-One Cybersecurity Protection: Antivirus, VPN & Scam Guard
All-in-one cybersecurity software for all your devices. Malwarebytes provides smarter antivirus, VPN, and scam detection for you and your family.
Very close - 14
MX Lookup Tool - Check your DNS MX Records online - MxToolbox
Very close - 15
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 - 16
Official Site | TotalAV Award-Winning Antivirus Provider
TotalAV's Award-Winning antivirus instantly blocks harmful malware threats and viruses in real-time, keeping your personal data and identity safe.
Very close - 17
ESET Cybersecurity | Enterprise, Business and Home Solutions | ESET
Best IT security solutions for your home and business devices. Try ESET antivirus and internet security solutions for Windows, Android, Mac or Linux OS.
Very close - 18
Confiant | The First & Leading Ad Security & Quality Platform
Confiant helps publishers & ad platforms stay ahead of bad ads and bad actors, keeping your revenue stream intact while protecting your user experience.
Very close - 19
Advanced Website Protection for Unmatched Cyber Defense
Safeguard your devices with Comodo's advanced endpoint protection and protect your websites from malware and cyber threats. Secure your site now!
Very close - 20
WhoisXML API: #1 for Domain, WHOIS, IP, DNS & Threat Intelligence
WhoisXML API offers domain, WHOIS, IP and DNS data feeds, APIs, and research & monitoring tools for greater enterprise security and data-driven business.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles VirusTotal’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones VirusTotal 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 VirusTotal 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 · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 40 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to VirusTotal’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
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.zdsys.com include:mail.ze…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.zdsys.com include:mail.ze…
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google
- Authentication
- Firebase page source: .firebaseapp.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-c3.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=i9iYxFW3ir0lIkCTNewpXhSOTBckiAO0H656epZ3HtQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on virustotal.com 13/20
- Google Workspace 10/20
- Google Tag Manager 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on virustotal.com 9/20
- jQuery · not on virustotal.com 7/20
- Google Fonts · not on virustotal.com 6/20
- Apple Business · not on virustotal.com 6/20
- jsDelivr · not on virustotal.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on virustotal.com 5/20
- Atlassian · not on virustotal.com 5/20
- PHP · not on virustotal.com 5/20
- WordPress · not on virustotal.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on virustotal.com 4/20
- HubSpot 4/20
- Zoom · not on virustotal.com 4/20