Free Shodan Alternatives

The best free alternative to Shodan is Criminal IP. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Shodan and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Shodan are ZoomEye, Censys, IVRE and FOFA.

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Shodan alternatives are mainly Vulnerability Scanners, but if you're looking for Penetration Testing Tools or Network Monitors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Open Source, Free + Penetration Testing and Free + Vulnerability Scanner. 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 Shodan.
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  1. Criminal IP icon
     58 likes

    Criminal IP protects IT assets and businesses by analyzing all years of cyber threats and prediciting exploits. Criminal IP provides real-time intelligence to enhance cybersecurity competencies in all aspects.

    14 Criminal IP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    18
    Comments about Criminal IP as an Alternative to Shodan
    Top Positive Comment
    183xh1n
    4

    If you are looking for a free search engine, Criminal IP should be your choice. I mean, it's currently in beta stage and free so why not?

    dikocem681
    Positive
    0

    Criminal IP has the benefit of being in Beta. They're completely free to use.

    yenexok620
    Positive
    0

    the free service is appealing

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Criminal IP icon
    • Criminal IP is Freemium and ProprietaryShodan is also Freemium and Proprietary
  2. ZoomEye icon
     15 likes

    Network mapping service.

    26 ZoomEye alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    2
    Comments about ZoomEye as an Alternative to Shodan
    hednkm
    Positive
    0

    never imagined i could one day find myself a hacked website... cheers to the team!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    the best shodan alternative

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    ZoomEye icon
    ZoomEye icon
    • ZoomEye is Freemium and ProprietaryShodan is also Freemium and Proprietary
  3. Censys icon
     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

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    • Online
     
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    2
    Comments about Censys as an Alternative to Shodan
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    no limit on number of searches, lots of filters

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Fresher data, more ports scanned

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Censys icon
    Censys icon
    • Censys is Freemium and Open SourceShodan is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. IVRE icon
     24 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    3
    Comments about IVRE as an Alternative to Shodan
    nm17
    Positive
    0

    Great for indexing local networks and such

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    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
    0

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

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    IVRE icon
    IVRE icon
    • IVRE is Free and Open SourceShodan is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. ONYPHE icon
     1 like

    ONYPHE is a search engine for open-source and cyber threat intelligence data collected by crawling various sources available on the Internet or by listening to Internet background noise.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. wapiti icon
     7 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. LeakIX icon
     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.

    7 LeakIX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    2
    Comments about LeakIX as an Alternative to Shodan
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    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
    0

    Simple, too the point indexer with nice querying capacities

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    LeakIX icon
    • LeakIX is Free and Open SourceShodan is Freemium and Proprietary
  8. Vulners API icon
     1 like

    Vulners is a high-quality correlated database of software vulnerabilities. Users can create a custom VM solution using our consolidated database through API, multiple vulnerability scanners, plugins, and many other security tools and integrations.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. Natlas icon
     Like

    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)
     
  10. TEQNIX.io icon
     3 likes

    TEQNIX is a platform with a number of tools and strategies for penetration testers, red teamers and secops. It promotes automation with scanners and utilities and also assist in a real-time attack situation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Golem Security Scanner is a powerful and intuitive website security scanner which uses a combination of proprietary and open source scanners to maximize the scan findings. Much less expensive for the paid version than other providers, with a free option which scans a portion of...

    16 Golem Security Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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