Features
One API for lookups, feeds and monitoring.
Reputation lookups, vulnerability monitoring, ransomware data, STIX/TAXII, streaming and webhooks, every score traced to its sources.
No credit card required · No monthly cap on website lookups · 250 API requests/month
- Indexed indicators
- 31M+
- Sources in the corpus
- 593
- Cached lookup
- <100ms
- Free API requests per month
- 250
Capabilities
Core capabilities. Each one traced to its sources.
Also in the same API
- Stream API (SSE)Server-Sent Events for new threats, reputation changes and monitoring alerts, as they are published.
- Monitoring & alertsMonitor domains, IPs and certificates; alerts arrive by email, webhook or stream.
- Bulk lookupsProcess up to 500 entities per request with bulk APIs designed for SIEM and SOAR pipelines.
- Webhooks & integrationsSigned payloads for threat.detected, monitor.alert, report.created and usage.warning, retried with backoff.
- Certificate monitoringAlerts on certificate expiry, issuer change and fingerprint mismatch, with per-domain history.
- Downloadable blocklistsIP and domain lists in plain text, hosts, dnsmasq or AdGuard format.
- Unified analyze APIPOST /api/analyze detects the input type and routes it to the right check.
- Email risk analysisBreach exposure, disposable domains and SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX checks for any address.
- Phone scam checksVOIP and fraud heuristics for phone numbers, via /api/check/phone or /report.
- Crypto wallet blocklistBTC and ETH addresses matched against ScamSniffer and related scam indexes.
Quickstart
First call in 60 seconds. The free tier covers it.
Register, copy your API key from the dashboard, run a request.
# X-API-KEY = base64(apiKey:apiSecret)
curl -H "X-API-KEY: $(printf '%s' "$ISMALICIOUS_API_KEY:$ISMALICIOUS_API_SECRET" | base64 | tr -d '\n')" \
"https://api.ismalicious.com/check/reputation?query=8.8.8.8"Integrations
Fits the stack you run. STIX/TAXII, OpenAPI, signed webhooks.
SIEM & SOAR
- Splunk
- Elastic Security
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Wazuh
- Cortex / TheHive
- n8n
- Tines
- Torq
Threat intel platforms
- OpenCTI
- MISP
- ThreatConnect
- Anomali
- Recorded Future
- STIX 2.1
- TAXII 2.1
Developer tools
- JavaScript / TypeScript SDK
- Python (requests/httpx)
- Go (net/http)
- Rust (reqwest)
- curl / bash
- OpenAPI 3.1 spec
Outputs
- JSON
- CSV
- Plain text blocklists
- Hosts file
- STIX 2.1 bundles
- Webhook signed payloads
Looking for a specific connector? Browse all integrations →
By role
Pick your guide. Same API, different jobs.
SOC teams
Enrich alerts and triage them with source-attributed context.
See guideSIEM / detection engineers
Indicator feeds for Splunk, Elastic, Sentinel or your own pipeline.
See guideEmail security teams
Breach exposure, disposable domains and DNS checks for senders.
See guideFirewall / network ops
Blocklists for iptables, pfSense, FortiGate and Palo Alto.
See guideMSSPs
API and feeds for managed SOCs, with rights set by contract.
See guideDevelopers
REST API, typed SDK, OpenAPI spec and a free API key.
See guideEnterprise
On-premise on request, availability terms by contract, a named support contact, OIDC SSO and STIX/TAXII feeds.
See guideIncident response
From one IOC to related infrastructure and MITRE context.
See guidePlans
What each plan includes.
| Capability | Free | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lookups (all observable types) | 250/month | 10K/month | 1M/month |
| API access | Rate-limited | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monitored items & email alerts | 5 assets | 100 assets | 10,000 assets |
| Vulnerability monitoring | 1 domain + 1 lockfile | 25 sources | 100 sources |
| Bulk lookups | 10/request | 100/request | 500/request |
| Webhooks | — | Up to 10 | Up to 10 |
| Stream API (SSE) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| STIX / TAXII | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-generated assessment | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ransomware intelligence | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email risk analysis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Phone & crypto scam checks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unified analyze API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Downloadable blocklists | Lite (first 10%) | ✓ | ✓ |
Need higher volumes, on-prem or custom limits? See Enterprise →
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What does Free include?
Which threat intelligence sources are aggregated?
How does vulnerability monitoring differ from a CVE database lookup?
Do you support STIX and TAXII?
How do bulk lookups work?
Are webhooks signed?
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Website lookups with no monthly cap and 250 API requests a month, with the dashboard, monitoring and vulnerability monitoring included.
No credit card required · No monthly cap on website lookups · 250 API requests/month