Alternatives and competitors
Sites like VirusTotal
The 20 closest malware scanning and threat intelligence alternatives to VirusTotal, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to VirusTotal? The closest matches are 360 Total Security, Avira and AVG AntiVirus. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About VirusTotal
VirusTotal virustotal.com
VirusTotal
VirusTotal
Wikidata: cybersecurity website
Summary by Claude
VirusTotal is a free online service that scans files, URLs, domains and IP addresses with dozens of antivirus engines and threat intelligence sources to detect malware and malicious content. It also offers paid threat intelligence and API access for security teams.
- Who it’s for
- Security researchers, IT professionals and general users
- Business model
- Freemium; paid enterprise threat intelligence and API subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to VirusTotal’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to VirusTotal
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to VirusTotal, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read virustotal.com’s homepage (too little text on the homepage), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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360 Total Security for Home and Business | Free & Easy
360 Total Security is a Cybersecurity software. Protect your PC against malware, ransomware, malicious websites and other advanced online threats, Download 360 Total Security for free and secure your PC.
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computer security software company
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antivirus software
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Threat Intelligence & Domain Security Platform | DomainTools
DomainTools provides DNS-based threat intelligence covering 97% of internet infrastructure. Detect, investigate & block malicious domains. Request a demo.
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Web Analytics Made Easy - Statcounter
StatCounter is a simple but powerful real-time web analytics service that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors so you can make good decisions to become more successful online.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC
United States government public health agency
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Internet-based plagiarism-prevention service
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Home Page | CISA
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: America's Cyber Defense Agency
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All-in-One Cybersecurity Protection: Antivirus, VPN & Scam Guard
All-in-one cybersecurity software for all your devices. Malwarebytes provides smarter antivirus, VPN, and scam detection for you and your family.
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Vercel Security Checkpoint
Malaysian travel and location intelligence platform
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Kaspersky Cyber Security Solutions for Home and Business | Kaspersky
Official Site – A Global Leader in next-generation cybersecurity solutions and services, Kaspersky offers premium protection against all cyber threats for your home and business.
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Контур | Доступ запрещен
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Dr.Web Download antivirus for PC / Mac / Android
Doctor Web is a Russian IT-security solutions vendor developing Dr.Web anti-virus for businesses and personal use, as well as anti-virus as a service since 1992.
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Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
The definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
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network traffic analyzer
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Guardio | Powerful Online Protection for Your Digital Life
Protect all your devices online. Keep your personal and business data safe from phishing, malware, and identity theft. Get your free Guardio security scan today.
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SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Survey Platform
Easily create surveys and forms with AI and templates for employee and customer feedback, market research, event registrations and more. Get started free.
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ESET Cybersecurity | Enterprise, Business and Home Solutions | ESET
Best IT security solutions for your home and business devices. Try ESET antivirus and internet security solutions for Windows, Android, Mac or Linux OS.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to virustotal.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones VirusTotal uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What VirusTotal is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.zdsys.com include:mail.ze…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.zdsys.com include:mail.ze…
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google
- Authentication
- Firebase page source: .firebaseapp.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-c3.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=i9iYxFW3ir0lIkCTNewpXhSOTBckiAO0H656epZ3HtQ
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what VirusTotal adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on virustotal.com 12/20
- Atlassian · not on virustotal.com 8/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Google Workspace 6/20
- Apple Business · not on virustotal.com 6/20
- Adobe · not on virustotal.com 5/20
- OpenAI · not on virustotal.com 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on virustotal.com 4/20
- Miro · not on virustotal.com 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on virustotal.com 4/20
- jQuery · not on virustotal.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on virustotal.com 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on virustotal.com 4/20
- Next.js · not on virustotal.com 3/20
- React · not on virustotal.com 3/20