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Intelsieve and Shodan

Shodan is a search engine for internet-connected devices. Intelsieve watches your own domain, and an analyst checks every finding before it reaches you. Here is how they differ, with sources.

Every claim in the Shodan column is quoted or paraphrased from their own pages and numbered to the source below, each with the date it was read. Where their pages do not address something, the row says so rather than guessing.

At a glance

Intelsieve compared with Shodan
	Intelsieve	Shodan
What it is	Monitoring for your own domain: every host found, every finding checked by an analyst	A search engine for internet-connected devices^[1]
Who decides what matters	An analyst, before a finding reaches you	You, from the results you search for
Each finding ends in	A verdict: still needs fixing, already fixed, or doesn’t apply to you, with the reasoning recorded	Search results and alerts you triage yourself
Scope	The domains you add, and everything underneath them	The whole internet, searchable
Pricing published	Yes: $100/month (Standard), $250/month (Business)	Yes: $69/month (Freelancer), $359/month (Small Business), $1,099/month (Corporate)^[2]
Free option	Free tier: 1 domain, weekly scan, every host counted, five examined, findings unverified	Yes, a free account with limited credits^[2]
Ask a person about a finding	Yes, an analyst replies, usually the same working day	Their pages describe a search engine, a monitoring product and an API, not an analyst you can ask about a result.^[1]

Which one fits

When Shodan is the better choice

You want to search the whole internet, not only your own estate.
You want raw results and have people who triage them.
You care about more than websites — “power plants, mobile phones, refrigerators and Minecraft servers”, in their words — across the whole internet rather than one estate.^[1]

When Intelsieve fits

You want to know which exposures on your own domain still need fixing.
You want a person to check each finding before it reaches you.
You want a record you can hand to an insurer, a board or an auditor.

Sources

shodan.io, checked 1 October 2026
Shodan, Choose Your Plan, checked 1 October 2026

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