Maltego vs SearchWebCode
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
Things to check
- Paid plans start at €3,000 a year, well above single-purpose lookup tools
- Third-party data is drawn from a credit allowance that varies by plan
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.
SearchWebCode
SearchWebCode is a search engine for the source code of public websites. It indexes the HTML, JavaScript and CSS of about 131 million homepage domains and matches exact strings or regular expressions, returning every site that contains the match together with its full source. Security uses include finding sites that load a known-bad script or an outdated library, and linking sites that share a tracking or analytics ID; it is also used to map technology stacks. A signature library identifies common technologies by their fingerprints, and results can be filtered by domain and exported to CSV or read through an API.
Pros
- Regex search across web source code at a low per-search price
- Useful for tracing shared analytics IDs and for finding sites loading a vulnerable script
- CSV export and API on every plan
Things to check
- Indexes homepages by default; every page is an Enterprise option
- Results reflect the last crawl; the index is refreshed monthly, per its Capterra listing
- Unlimited plan carries a fair-use limit of 500 requests a day
Pricing: Pay as you go at $0.05 a search (empty results are free), or Unlimited at $10/month billed $120 a year with a fair-use limit of 500 requests a day. Enterprise on request.