The Best Open Source Shodan AlternativesTop Vulnerability Scanners and other similar apps like Shodan

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   Censys

    24 likes

   Censys is a search engine that allows computer scientists to ask questions about the devices and networks that compose the internet.

   24 Censys alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Vulnerability Scanner

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Online

   

   

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   Guest

   Positive comment•May 5, 2020

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   no limit on number of searches, lots of filters

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   Guest

   Positive comment•Dec 7, 2020

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   Fresher data, more ports scanned

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • Censys is Freemium and Open SourceShodan is Freemium and Proprietary
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   IVRE

    24 likes

   Network recon framework, including a web interface to browse Nmap scan results.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Online
   • BSD
   • Self-Hosted

   

   

   

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   nm17

   Positive comment•Oct 11, 2020

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   Great for indexing local networks and such

   Guest

   Positive comment•Jun 1, 2017

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   Because it's an open-source framework for scanning, indexing and researching data about connected device... Like Shodan.

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   Guest

   Positive comment•Mar 4, 2020

   0

   Because it's completely free and open-source and works exactly like Shodan.

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • IVRE is Free and Open SourceShodan is Freemium and Proprietary
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   LeakIX

    4 likes

   LeakIX is a search engine indexing open hosts on the internet. It focuses on listing the databases and table names and keeps a history of every successful connection.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Vulnerability Scanner

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Online
   • Software as a Service (SaaS)

   

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   Guest

   Positive comment•May 28, 2020

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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.

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   khen_su

   Positive comment•May 28, 2020

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   Simple, too the point indexer with nice querying capacities

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • LeakIX is Free and Open SourceShodan is Freemium and Proprietary
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   wapiti

    7 likes

   Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your web applications. Wapiti is a command line tool.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   Natlas

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   Natlas is an open source project designed to provide scalable network scanning and an interface to search through the results. For more information, visit github.com/natlas/natlas

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Self-Hosted
   • Software as a Service (SaaS)

   

   

   

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   skipfish

    14 likes

   A fully automated, active web application security reconnaissance tool. Key features: High speed: pure C code, highly optimized HTTP handling, minimal CPU footprint - easily achieving 2000 requests per second with responsive targets.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Vulnerability Scanner

   Origin

   • United States

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

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   Vega

    2 likes

   Vega is a free and open source scanner and testing platform to test the security of web applications. Vega can help you find and validate SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), inadvertently disclosed sensitive information, and other vulnerabilities.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • Canada

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

   

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    Grabber Web Application Scanner

     1 like

    Grabber is a web application scanner. Basically it detects some kind of vulnerabilities in your website.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Vulnerability Scanner

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android

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