Maltego vs Opsis OSINT
Maltego
Maltego is an OSINT and investigations platform. Maltego Graph places entities such as people, organisations, email addresses, domains and IP addresses on a graph and links them, drawing data from integrated sources, while Maltego Search handles quick lookups for digital profiling. The product set also includes Monitor, Evidence, Data, Screen and Profile, and Hunchly for capturing web pages as evidence. Maltego Technologies is based in Munich and lists government, defence and national security, law enforcement, threat intelligence, banking and insurance among the industries it serves. A free Basic plan includes the Community Edition of Maltego Graph.
Pros
- Free Basic plan with the Community Edition of Maltego Graph
- Published prices for its paid plans
- Connects many data sources in one visual investigation
- Lists government, defence and law enforcement among the industries it serves
Pricing: Basic free (Community Edition, 200 or 1,000 credits). Entry €3,000/year (10,000 credits, adds Hunchly). Professional from €7,500/year, billed per seat, for up to 5 users (20,000 or 40,000 credits). Enterprise on request.
Opsis OSINT
Opsis OSINT is a hosted search platform for open-source intelligence. It takes a username, email address or domain, checks it against public sources in real time and returns the matching accounts with the profile data each source exposes, such as names, avatars, bios, follower counts and join dates. Opsis says it now runs about 1,100 modules: around 700 username platform lookups and 400 email enrichment modules, plus domain WHOIS and DNS tools. Its website still gives the earlier figure of 700+. A result only counts as a match when the source shows real profile signals, such as an avatar, display name or structured data. An HTTP 200 response on its own does not count. Premium searches, on the Basic plan and above, add 27 username platforms that need browser automation, including Facebook, Etsy and Crunchbase. The Pro plan adds a versioned REST API with synchronous, polling and streamed modes and a published OpenAPI schema. Opsis says it discards search results and keeps no database of people, and it logs each query with the account, timestamp and IP address for up to 90 days. The operator is Opsis LLC, a Minnesota limited liability company confirmed as active in the Minnesota Secretary of State registry. Its acceptable use policy permits licensed investigation, corporate due diligence, threat intelligence, law enforcement, journalism and academic research, and prohibits stalking, harassment, doxxing and FCRA, GLBA or DPPA-regulated screening.
Pros
- The operator is verifiable in a government registry: the Minnesota Secretary of State confirms Opsis LLC as active and in good standing, file number 1643670600029
- The acceptable use policy is specific and restrictive, expressly prohibiting stalking, harassment, doxxing, and employment, tenant and credit screening
- Accountability is built in: every search is logged with account identifier, query, timestamp and IP address, and kept for up to 90 days
- Opsis says a result needs real profile signals to count as a match, which targets the usual false-positive problem in username enumeration
- The API is well documented for automation: an OpenAPI schema, public health and capabilities endpoints, streamed results, and published rate limits and error codes
- People can ask not to be searchable: a suppression request for their own email or username is reviewed by a person within 30 days
Pricing: Starter $14.99/month (25 searches); Basic $24.99/month (75 searches, adds Premium deep search); Pro $49.99/month (150 searches, adds API access). Credits reset monthly and do not roll over. API calls use separately bought credits, from $20 for 50 down to $0.25 each at 1,000; a Premium search costs 2 credits.