4 categories · RankedShodan
Shodan is a search and monitoring tool for finding exposed services, used for attack surface management and threat intelligence · shodan.io ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Intruder is first at 35%.
Intruder is first at 29%.
Cortex Xpanse is first at 44%.
Why models recommend it
“Other options to consider are Attack Surface Scan and Shodan Monitor, which are lightweight monitors”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Supplement with OSINT: Use Shodan (free tier)”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“it also found significant false positives in Shodan's *banner-based* detections”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Shodan, over the 28 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 3 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 5 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
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How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 20 of the 28 answers that named Shodan and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-five of the sixty domain citations in answers naming Shodan came from a third party's page. Five were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 56 | 0 | 2024-08-07 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2024-08-075 free things for everybody blog
- 2024-01-14Deep dive malware hunter blog
- 2024-01-10Deep dive http favicon blog
- 2023-08-21Developer access to shodan trends blog
- 2022-08-03Accepting crypto a vendor perspective blog
- 2022-04-13Historical ip information blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page shodan.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.