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Censys Platform API

Censys continually scans the public IPv4 space and discovers in-use IPv6 addresses; its dataset contains more than 3 billion services, and high-value service data has an average age of about 16 hours. Free users receive basic data only, no host history, lookup-only API access, 100 monthly credits and five free API or UI actions per day.

Open docs.censys.com
Signal Scoredraft model
82
Access
Account · free account and Personal Access Token
9
Licence clarity
Provider terms · terms linked
13
Evidence
6 source links checked
20
Freshness
verified 2026-11-01
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage · attribution
20

// Terms and limits

Access
free account and Personal Access Token
Free tier
Free account: lookup endpoints only for hosts, web properties and certificates; basic data; no host history; 100 credits per month plus five free Platform API or UI actions per day; one concurrent action.
Rate limits
Account-specific API rate limits are shown on the Personal Access Tokens page; Free tier allows one concurrent action. No fixed request rate is stated publicly.
Licence
Provider termsterms
Licence note
Censys Free data is restricted to non-commercial use and non-paying users must cite and link to Censys. Incorporating Censys data into a product made available to third parties requires an Enterprise account.
Attribution
Required for non-paying users: cite the Censys service and link to https://censys.com/ wherever Censys data is used.

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-01

  1. 01docs.censys.com/reference/get-started.md
  2. 02docs.censys.com/docs/platform-credits-free-starter.md
  3. 03docs.censys.com/docs/platform-host-dataset.md
  4. 04docs.censys.com/docs/internet-scanning.md
  5. 05docs.censys.com/docs/data-access-tiers-entitlements.md
  6. 06censys.com/terms-of-service/

// Good for

cyber-threatnetwork-datathreat-intelrisk

// The same record, for agents

Request · get_entry
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  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "censys-platform-api"
    }
  }
}
Reply · selected fields
{
  "name": "Censys Platform API",
  "slug": "censys-platform-api",
  "domain": "Cyber Threat",
  "type": "Dataset",
  "badge": "Freemium",
  "auth": "free account and Personal Access Token",
  "rateLimits": "Account-specific API rate limits are shown on the Personal Access Tokens page; Free tier allows one concurrent action. No fixed request rate is stated publicly.",
  "license": "Provider terms",
  "licenseUrl": "https://censys.com/terms-of-service/",
  "lastVerified": "2026-11-01",
  "evidenceUrls": [
    "https://docs.censys.com/reference/get-started.md",
    "https://docs.censys.com/docs/platform-credits-free-starter.md",
    "https://docs.censys.com/docs/platform-host-dataset.md",
    "https://docs.censys.com/docs/internet-scanning.md",
    "https://docs.censys.com/docs/data-access-tiers-entitlements.md",
    "https://censys.com/terms-of-service/"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    "cyber-threat",
    "network-data",
    "threat-intel",
    "risk"
  ],
  "providerUrl": "https://docs.censys.com/reference/get-started"
}

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