Free Shodan Alternatives

    The best free alternative to Shodan is ZoomEye. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Shodan and 18 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Shodan are Censys (Freemium, Open Source), IVRE (Free, Open Source), Vega (Free, Open Source) and wapiti (Free, Open Source).

    The list of alternatives was last updated Oct 13, 2020
    Shodan info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to Shodan
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    Platforms

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • iPad
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    Features

    • Penetration Testing
    • Security focused
    • Command line interface
    • Network Monitoring
    • Search IP addresses
    • Responsive design
    • REST API
    • No registration required
    • Works Offline
    • Open API
    • Data leak prevention
    • Dns
    • Heuristic Detection
    • In-Game Chat
    • Manual Pen-Testing
    • Network Discovery
    • Security Testing
    • Server Monitoring
    • Software as a Service

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    • ZoomEye

      Network mapping service. View 24 alternatives to ZoomEye
      Most users think ZoomEye is a great alternative to Shodan.
      • Freemium • Proprietary
      • Online
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      ZoomEye vs Shodan
      pros, cons and recent comments
      the best shodan alternative
      Positive comment • over 3 years ago

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    • Censys

      Censys is a search engine that allows computer scientists to ask questions about the devices and networks that compose the internet. View 24 alternatives to Censys
      Most users think Censys is a great alternative to Shodan.
      • Freemium • Open Source
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        Censys vs Shodan
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        no limit on number of searches, lots of filters
        Positive comment • about 1 year ago

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        Fresher data, more ports scanned
        Positive comment • 6 months ago

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      • IVRE

        Network recon framework, including a web interface to browse Nmap scan results. View 13 alternatives to IVRE
        Most users think IVRE is a great alternative to Shodan.
        • Free • Open Source
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        IVRE vs Shodan
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        Because it's completely free and open-source and works exactly like Shodan.
        Positive comment • over 1 year ago

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        nm17 Great for indexing local networks and such
        Positive comment • 8 months ago

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        Because it's an open-source framework for scanning, indexing and researching data about connected device... Like Shodan.
        Positive comment • about 4 years ago

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      • Vega

        Vega is a free and open source scanner and testing platform to test the security of web applications. View 8 alternatives to Vega
        • Free • Open Source
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      • wapiti

        Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your web applications. Wapiti is a command line tool. View 11 alternatives to wapiti
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        • Free • Open Source
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      • Arachni

        Arachni is an Open Source, feature-full, modular, high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testers and administrators evaluate the security of web... View 11 alternatives to Arachni
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        • skipfish

          A fully automated, active web application security reconnaissance tool. View 20 alternatives to skipfish

          Discontinued

          Skipfish is no longer maintained. Last version, 2.10 beta, released in December 2012, can be still downloaded from Google Code Archive

          • Free • Open Source
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        • PunkSPIDER

          PunkSPIDER is a global-reaching web application vulnerability search engine. The goal is to allow the user to determine vulnerabilities across the Internet quickly, easily, and intuitively. View 9 alternatives to PunkSPIDER

          Discontinued

          Website/service unavailable.

          • Free • Proprietary
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          • LeakIX

            LeakIX is a search engine indexing open hosts on the internet. It focuses on listing the databases and table names and keeps an history of every successful connection. New database software support is added on a regular basis. View 4 alternatives to LeakIX
            No screenshots yet
            • Free • Proprietary
            • Online
            • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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            LeakIX vs Shodan
            pros, cons and recent comments
            khen_su Simple, too the point indexer with nice querying capacities
            Positive comment • about 1 year ago

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            Has less data but is free for all. Also table names (mysql), collection names (mongo), index names ( elasticsearch ) and topic ( kafka ) names are searchable.
            Positive comment • about 1 year ago

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          • purplepee.co

            This tool allows you to view general information about a websites HTTP header, websites DNS records, websites SSL certificates and a bunch of open TCP ports as well ASN whois information. View 25 alternatives to purplepee.co
            • Free • Open Source
            • Online
            • Self-Hosted
            • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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            purplepee.co vs Shodan
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            Purplepee let you browse through the relations between connected devices, websites open ports etc. Love the idea to have an open source search engine for current state of the internet.
            Positive comment • over 1 year ago

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