Censys pricing: IP company lookup API, GET / v3/ global/ asset/ host/ {host_ id}
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- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $79 monthly, Censys StarterCensys Starter$158.00 per 1,000
- $599 monthly, Censys Starter ProCensys Starter Pro$149.75 per 1,000
- Contact us, Security OperationsSecurity Operations
- Contact us, Adversary InvestigationAdversary Investigation
- Contact us, CoreCore
GET / v3/ global/ asset/ host/ {host_ id} one of Censys's 3 callsGET /Free$0.00 per 1,000v3/ global/ asset/ host/ {host_ id} POST /Free$0.00 per 1,000v3/ global/ asset/ host GET /Contact us, Security Operationsv3/ global/ asset/ enrichment/ host/ {host_ ip}
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 5 of the 10 fields on our checklist. Owner's name, ASN, Network range, Country, Region and city.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits a month, enough for 100 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of each month.
- One call. You send
host_toid GET /. You can also sendv3/ global/ asset/ host/ {host_ id} at_andtime organization_. The call returns the IP address's owner.id - Who can get it: anyone with a free Censys account. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
Censys: IP company lookup API alternatives
Censys alternatives: other IP company lookup API providers by price
The table starts with Censys's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 IP addresses closest to Censys's.
| Censys, $599 monthly, Censys Starter Pro, GET /v3/global/asset/host/{host_id} | Elioplus, $99 monthly | Retention.com, $199 pack | HubVibe, $25 pack | FullHunt, $1,499 monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 IP addresses | $149.75 | $39.60 | $39.80 | $100.00 | $149.90 |
| Completeness | 50% | 60% | 10% | 40% | 30% |
| Billing | monthly | monthly | pay first | pay first | monthly |
| Pay | $599 | $99 | $199 | $25 | $1,499 |
| Enough for | 4,000 calls a month | 2,500 calls a month | 5,000 results | 250 calls | 10,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | 7 days | unknown | 1 month | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone buying a Starter Pro subscription, for its own internal, first-party business use | anyone who signs up with accurate, current and complete information | anyone with a work email | anyone, paying by card in Stripe's secure checkout, the key is shown the moment the payment clears | anyone who signs up, commercial use permitted |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.
- censys.com/developers
- censys.com/pricing
- censys.com/self-service-subscription-terms-of-service
- docs.censys.com/docs/data-access-tiers-entitlements
- docs.censys.com/docs/host-enrichment
- docs.censys.com/docs/platform-credits-enterprise
- docs.censys.com/docs/platform-credits-free-starter
- docs.censys.com/docs/platform-starter-subscriptions
- docs.censys.com/llms.txt
- docs.censys.com/reference/v3-globaldata-asset-host
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Owner's name
- Owner's domain, not in the answer
- ASN
- Network range
- Industry, not in the answer
- Company size, not in the answer
- Country
- Region and city
- VPN and proxy, not in the answer
- Hosting, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 IP addresses | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Retrieve multiple hosts · Get a web property · Get a certificate · Retrieve multiple web properties · Retrieve multiple certificates |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Retrieve information about a single host. A host ID is its IP address. |
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| Keep data | the term of your subscription: the license runs "during the term of Customer's Subscription" and "all rights, obligations and licenses [...] shall cease" on its cancellation or lapse |
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| Use data | "Censys grants Customer a nonexclusive, non-transferable license (without the right to sublicense) during the term of Customer's Subscription to access and use the Service and the Censys Data only for Customer's internal, first-party business use. The Service is not provided for, and may not be used for, the enrichment of any third-party product or service." "The Service and the Censys Data are provided for Customer's internal use only and may not be used to enrich, augment, supplement or otherwise support any product or service offered to third parties. Customer shall not, directly or indirectly: (a) use the Service, the Censys Data or any Censys Property or Confidential Information [...] to create any service, software, product or system, or (b) provide the Service, the Censys Data or any Censys Property, in whole or in part, to any third party, including as a stand-alone product, service, application, file, report or database." "Customer shall not redistribute or resell the Censys Data." "Customer shall not, directly or indirectly: (a) use or enable any third party to use any Censys Data, Censys Property, or Confidential Information, or any derivatives of any of the foregoing, as prompts or inputs, or otherwise to train any artificial intelligence, machine learning or language models or similar technology or systems, [...] (c) encumber, sublicense, transfer, distribute, sell, rent, lease, loan, time-share or use the Service in any service bureau arrangement or otherwise for the benefit of any third party, (d) copy, edit, alter, adapt, combine, create derivative works of or otherwise modify the Service, the Censys Data or any Censys Property, [...]" |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 credits a month |
| Enough for | 100 calls a month |
| Expires | at the end of each month |
| Concurrent | 1 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | host_id. Optional: at_time, organization_id |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /v3/global/asset/host/{host_id} |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone with a free Censys account |
The 44 fields the plan's answer can hold
IP address, organization name, organization handle, organization address, organization street, organization city, organization state, organization postal code, organization country, organization abuse contacts, organization admin contacts, organization tech contacts, network name, network handle, network CIDRs, network allocation type, network created date, network updated date, ASN, ASN name, ASN description, ASN organization, BGP prefix, ASN country code, city, province, country, country code, continent, postal code, latitude, longitude, timezone, registered country, registered country code, DNS names, forward DNS records, reverse DNS names, labels, service count, service port, service protocol, service scan time, service labels