Free VirusTotal Alternatives

The best free alternative to VirusTotal is MetaDefender. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to VirusTotal and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to VirusTotal are Hybrid-Analysis.com, Jotti, ANY.RUN and Cuckoo Sandbox.

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VirusTotal alternatives are mainly Anti-Malware Apps, but if you're looking for Anti-Virus Apps or Website Monitoring Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Open Source and Self-Hosted. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to VirusTotal.
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  1. URL Void icon
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    In a nutshell, URLVoid is a free service that analyzes a website through multiple blacklist engines and online reputation tools to facilitate the detection of fraudulent and malicious websites. This service helps you to identify websites involved in malware incidents, fraudulent...

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. CAPE icon
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    CAPE is a malware sandbox. It was derived from Cuckoo with the goal of adding automated malware unpacking and config extraction.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
     
  3. X-Ray icon
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    X-Ray is a software that automates submission of files that you think is suspicious to 35 antivirus companies* for manual analysis by virus analyst professionals with a click of a button.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Security Plus icon
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    Security Plus is a browser extension powered by VirusTotal's API, which provides free checking of URLs for viruses. It uses up to 64 different antivirus products/scan engines to check for viruses that the user's own antivirus solution may have missed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Opera
    • Chromium
    • Firefox
     
  5. MalShare icon
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    The MalShare Project is a community driven public malware repository that works to provide free access to malware samples and tooling to the infomation security community.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  6. LOARIS icon
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    Loaris offers a superb malware removal solution to deal with various contemporary forms of cyber threats in cases when available anti-virus applications aren't effective in identifying or deleting them.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. SecAI.ai icon
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    SecAI serves as an AI-powered security analysis tool free to every security analyst and security ops.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Submit your file or URL, get back reports from a full analysis using SophosLabs Intelix. Find out what our machine learning, decades of threat research, and petabytes of intelligence will say about your sample.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    A malware-analysis tool that identify the exact position and details of malicious content in binary files using external Anti-Virus scanners. Supports all AV scanners.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. PPEE (puppy) icon
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    Professional PE file Explorer for reversers, malware researchers and those who want to statically inspect PE files in more details.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    threatYeti is a search engine for domain and IP threat intelligence, provided by alphaMountain. threatYeti expedites threat investigations and incident response for cybersecurity analysts and threat researchers.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. Lenspect icon
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    A lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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