The 7 Best osint.industries Alternatives in 2026

The strongest osint.industries alternatives in 2026 are Revealer.US, Epieos, Maltego, SpiderFoot, the open-source Holehe/Maigret stack, Intelligence X, and Hudson Rock. Each covers a different slice of what a per-module lookup aggregator does. If you want the widest identifier-to-account coverage plus breach and infostealer-log data in one query, Revealer.US searches 800+ platforms, public records, and known breach datasets from a single email, username, phone, name, or address. If you want free and self-hostable, the open-source CLI stack still does the core account-existence checks well. Everything below is scored on module coverage, breach data, API, and pricing model.

What osint.industries actually does, and why people look for alternatives

osint.industries built its reputation on one mechanic. You feed it an email or a phone number, it fans that identifier out across a large set of platform-specific checks, and it tells you which services have an account registered to it, often with partial profile metadata, avatars, and account-creation hints. It is a per-module lookup aggregator. No single module is the product. The product is the breadth of modules and the speed of running them in parallel.

People shop for alternatives for four reasons, usually in this order:

1. Module coverage gaps. Every aggregator's module list has holes. Regional platforms, niche forums, and newer apps get covered unevenly, and a module that silently breaks is worse than one that was never there.
2. Breach and stealer-log data. Account-existence checks tell you where someone is. Breach corpora and infostealer logs tell you what was exposed. A lot of aggregators do the first and skip the second.
3. API access and automation. Manual UI lookups do not scale past a handful of subjects. If you are enriching a case queue or a fraud pipeline, you need a documented API.
4. Pricing model fit. Credit-metered, seat-based, and flat-rate subscriptions behave very differently once your volume is irregular, which it always is.

Those four axes are the columns in the table below.

Revealer.US is not a consumer reporting agency and its data may not be used for employment, tenant, credit, or insurance eligibility decisions.

Quick comparison

Pricing and feature details change; verify on each vendor's site before you commit budget. The only figures here we can state as fact are our own.

1. Revealer.US: widest module coverage plus breach and stealer data

We build Revealer.US, so treat this section as a disclosed interest and check the claims yourself.

The design goal was to collapse the usual three-tool workflow (account-existence aggregator, breach checker, stealer-log source) into a single query. One search by email, username, phone number, name, or address checks 800+ platforms, public records, and known breach datasets. For an analyst working a case queue, that kills the copy-paste tax between tools. It also kills the moment where you forget to run the third tool at all, which happens more often than anyone admits.

The differentiator beyond raw module count is AI Deep Search: recursive, agent-driven people intelligence that follows identifiers across sources. A conventional aggregator answers "what does this email touch?" and stops. Recursion takes a username discovered in module output, re-queries it as a first-class identifier, and keeps going. That is the loop a human analyst already does, just slower and with more missed pivots.

Practical entry points:

• Email lookup for email-first pivots
• Username search for handle-first pivots across platforms
• Data breach lookup and stealer logs for exposure context
• Reverse phone lookup and USA people finder for identity-side work
• API docs for pipeline integration and breach monitoring

Where it fits: investigators who want one query instead of four, and teams that need breach plus infostealer context in the same result set.

Where it does not: if your workflow is fundamentally graph analysis with custom data ingestion, a link-analysis platform is the better center of gravity. See Maltego below.

Pricing: free tier to start, paid self-serve plans from $12.99/mo, custom Enterprise. Card and crypto accepted. Full detail on pricing.

2. Epieos: the clean email and phone reverse lookup

Epieos is the name that comes up most often next to osint.industries, and the comparison is fair. It does email and phone reverse lookup with a tight, readable interface and no ceremony. Its Google account surfacing (pulling public profile data associated with a Google identity) has been a reliable staple of email investigation workflows for years. When I have one address and ten minutes, this is still the tab I open first.

Strengths: speed, clarity, low learning curve. A good first stop when you have exactly one email and want a fast read on whether it is worth deeper work.

Limits: narrower module breadth than the big aggregators, and it is not a breach-corpus product. If your question is "what was exposed," you will be opening another tab.

Pricing: a free tier exists alongside paid options; check their site for current limits, as they have changed over time.

3. Maltego: when the answer is a graph, not a list

Maltego is a different category of tool that lands on this list because it solves the same underlying problem from the other direction. Instead of a flat list of module hits, it builds an entity graph and lets you run transforms against nodes, expanding outward. The transform marketplace connects to a wide range of commercial and open data providers.

Strengths: relationship visualization, repeatable investigation graphs, and analytical rigor when a case has more than a handful of entities. If you are presenting findings to a non-technical stakeholder, a graph beats a table.

Limits: it is a platform, not a one-click lookup. Real coverage depends on which transform packs you license, and the cost stacks up as you add providers. Onboarding takes real time. Do not buy it because a blog post put it on a "top 7" list. Buy it when you have entities that need to be drawn.

Pricing: a community edition plus commercial tiers; transform hubs are priced separately by their vendors. Get a current quote rather than trusting any number you read in a blog post.

4. SpiderFoot: open-source automation with a very large module set

SpiderFoot is the open-source workhorse of automated recon. You give it a seed (email, domain, IP, username, name) and it runs a long list of modules, chaining discovered entities into further queries. It is genuinely recursive in the same spirit as agent-driven search, just configured rather than inferred.

Strengths: self-hostable, auditable, scriptable, and free. Module coverage is broad, and because it is open source you can read exactly what each module does before you trust its output. That matters when you have to defend a finding.

Limits: many of the highest-value modules require you to bring your own API keys, so "free" is only true until you need commercial data sources. Scan tuning is its own skill; a default scan produces a lot of noise. Infrastructure and maintenance are on you.

Pricing: open-source core is free; a hosted commercial offering exists. Check the project and vendor sites for current status.

5. Holehe, Maigret and Sherlock: the free CLI baseline

Three separate projects that most practitioners run as one stack:

• Holehe: checks whether an email is registered on a list of sites, mostly via password-reset and registration flows.
• Maigret: username search across a large site list, with metadata extraction.
• Sherlock: the classic username-across-platforms checker.

holehe [email protected]
maigret target_handle
sherlock target_handle

Strengths: free, transparent, offline-auditable, and easy to wrap in your own scripts. If you are teaching someone how account-existence checking actually works, this is the honest way to do it. I still keep Holehe in a pane for spot checks.

Limits: module rot is real. Sites change their signup and reset flows constantly, and community maintenance is uneven, so a percentage of any given run's checks will be stale or wrong. There is no breach data, no public-records layer, and no support contract. False negatives are the failure mode you should worry about most, because they are silent.

Pricing: free.

If you want the same handle-pivot workflow without maintaining module code, username search is the managed equivalent.

6. Intelligence X: archives, leaks and documents

Intelligence X is a search engine over a data archive rather than a live module runner. It indexes leaks, darknet content, document repositories, and historical snapshots, and lets you search by email, domain, IP, and other selectors.

Strengths: depth on historical and leaked material that live modules never see. When you need to know what an identifier looked like three years ago, or what appeared in a specific dump, this is the right shape of tool.

Limits: it does not answer "does this person have a TikTok account." Different question, different tool. Result interpretation requires care. A hit in an archive is a lead, not a conclusion.

Pricing: free public search with restricted results, plus paid accounts. Check their site for current tiers.

7. Hudson Rock: infostealer infection intelligence

Hudson Rock specializes in one thing: intelligence derived from infostealer malware logs. If a subject's machine was infected, the credentials, cookies, and application data harvested from it can appear in these corpora. That is a different exposure signal from a database breach, and mixing the two up in a report is a good way to get a finding bounced.

Strengths: the specialist depth on stealer data, plus free lookup endpoints that are useful for quick checks.

Limits: single-purpose by design. You will not use it for account enumeration or people search.

Pricing: free lookup tools plus commercial products; contact them for current commercial terms.

Stealer-log coverage is also part of Revealer's data mix (see stealer logs), but Hudson Rock's dedicated focus is worth knowing about if that signal is central to your work.

How to choose between them

Match the tool to the shape of the question, not to the marketing.

Three notes from running these side by side:

Cross-check before you conclude. Different aggregators return different hits on the same identifier, and the disagreement is informative. A hit in one and a miss in another usually means a module difference, not a contradiction. Never build a conclusion on a single source's negative result.

Understand how each tool defines a "hit." Some modules confirm registration. Others infer it from a reset-flow response that could also mean rate limiting. Read the method before you write the finding.

Budget for the second tool. Almost nobody runs one aggregator. The realistic question is which two you pair, and whether the pair covers module breadth, breach corpora, and stealer logs between them.

For a wider inventory of what exists in each of these categories, including free tools we do not sell, see our OSINT tools directory.

The honest summary

osint.industries is a good tool at what it does. If you are looking elsewhere, it is usually because you need one of three things it does not fully cover: broader module reach, breach and infostealer context in the same result, or an API you can build a pipeline against.

Revealer.US is built for that combination: 800+ modules, breach and stealer-log data, recursive AI Deep Search, API access, and breach monitoring, with a free tier to test it and self-serve plans from $12.99/mo. The open-source stack remains the right answer when auditability and cost matter more than coverage. Maltego remains the right answer when the case is a graph. Run the free tiers of two or three of these against an identifier you already know the ground truth for, and let the results decide.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free osint.industries alternative? Yes. SpiderFoot, Holehe, Maigret, and Sherlock are open source and free to self-host. Intelligence X and Hudson Rock offer free lookups with limits, and Revealer.US has a free tier. See pricing for what is included.

Which alternative has the most module coverage? Revealer.US searches 800+ platforms, public records, and breach datasets from a single query. SpiderFoot's open-source module count is also large but depends on which API keys you supply. Module counts are not directly comparable between vendors, so test against known identifiers rather than trusting a headline number.

Do any of these have an API? Revealer.US, SpiderFoot, Intelligence X, and Hudson Rock all offer programmatic access; Maltego exposes a transform SDK. Check each vendor's current documentation for rate limits and licensing terms.

Can I use these tools for hiring or tenant screening? Not with Revealer.US. It is not a consumer reporting agency, and its data may not be used for employment, tenant, credit, or insurance eligibility decisions. Use an FCRA-compliant provider for those purposes.

What is the difference between breach data and stealer logs? Breach data comes from a compromised service's database (typically emails, hashed passwords, and profile fields). Stealer logs come from malware on an individual's device and can include credentials, session cookies, and autofill data across many sites. They answer different exposure questions; data breach lookup and stealer logs cover each.

How should I start comparing these? Pick an email and a username where you already know the correct answer, run each tool's free tier against both, and score them on true hits, misses, and false positives. Fifteen minutes of that beats any comparison post, including this one.