Shodan Alternatives

Shodan is described as 'Search engine that lets you find specific computers (routers, servers, etc.) using a variety of filters. Some have also described it as a public port scan directory or a search engine of banners' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Shodan for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Linux, Windows, Mac and SaaS apps. The best Shodan alternative is Criminal IP, which is free. Other great apps like 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. LeakIX icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Comments about LeakIX as an Alternative to Shodan
    Guest
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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
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    Simple, too the point indexer with nice querying capacities

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think LeakIX is a great Shodan alternative.

    • LeakIX is Free and Open SourceShodan is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. Put yourself in the shoes of a hacker! Without technical expertise, launch an audit to detect security flaws on your website or web application. Online website vulnerability scanner. No installation required. ISO & RGPD compliant. How to avoid hackers?

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Vulners API icon
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    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)
     
  4. Natlas icon
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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)
     
  5. TEQNIX.io icon
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    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)
     
  6. 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
     
  7. Vega icon
     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.

    8 Vega alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. skipfish icon
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    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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. Grabber is a web application scanner. Basically it detects some kind of vulnerabilities in your website.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
  10. SearchDiggity is the primary attack tool of the Google Hacking Diggity Project. It is Bishop Fox’s MS Windows GUI application that serves as a front-end to the most recent versions of our Diggity tools: GoogleDiggity, BingDiggity, Bing LinkFromDomainDiggity, CodeSearchDiggity...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Browsable directory listing of publicly available FTP-sites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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