# Pulsedive

> Pulsedive is a threat intelligence platform from Pulsedive LLC in New Jersey. Its API looks up domains, IP addresses and URLs for risk scores, linked threats and feeds, scans new indicators on demand and exports STIX over TAXII 2.1.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulsedive
- Pricing: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulsedive#pricing
- Reviews: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulsedive#reviews
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulsedive.md (~7,700 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulsedive.min.md (~1,830 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulsedive.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- DNS: dig +short TXT pulsedive.grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.<category>. and <a>.vs.<b>. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-11-04

## Overview

**Grade D · 47.9/100 · rank #1079 of 1349 · #7 in Security intelligence · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


## Assessment

Lookups work with no key at all, a free account allows 50 requests a day, and the docs ship llms.txt, per-endpoint OpenAPI files and timestamps for every scan. The key travels only in the query string, numeric limits live in a 2024 blog post rather than the docs, and there is no status page, SLA, security.txt or official SDK.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | Pulsedive LLC (https://pulsedive.com) |
| Kind | HTTP API |
| Category | Security intelligence (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/security-intelligence) |
| Auth | API key · API key from the account page after a free browser signup, sent only as a `key` query parameter. Requests without a key are accepted at a much lower limit (10 a day and 100 a month per the March 2024 plan post). No scopes, rotation or header option was found. The TAXII server takes the key by HTTP Basic or query parameter. |
| Pricing | Freemium ($29 / mo) · Free registered account, no card, 50 API requests a day and 500 a month per the March 2024 plan post. Pro $29 a month (250 a day, 2,500 a month) per the site menu and that post, which also gave Team API $300 a month for 25,000 requests and Business API $900 a month for 100,000 with soft limits, Custom by contact, and feed subscriptions from $1,500 to $3,000 a month. The current pricing pages render by script, so the 2024 figures for Team and Business are the latest read. |
| x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI files, the terms or the plan posts (checked 2026-11-03). A spent quota answers 429 with an error string that points to the plan page. |
| Licence | unknown |
| Tools exposed | 0 |
| Docs | https://docs.pulsedive.com/ |
| llms.txt | https://docs.pulsedive.com/llms.txt |
| Last release | 2026-10-27 |
| Surface listed | The REST API at pulsedive.com/api, read from docs.pulsedive.com (llms.txt, API reference, limits, responses, pagination, collection model, OpenAPI files, docs MCP page), pulsedive.com (terms, privacy, company and API pages, whose plan tables render by script) and blog.pulsedive.com on 3 November 2026. The docs MCP server serves documentation only. No account was made and no call was sent |
| Endpoints | GET indicator.php (by value or iid, get=links or properties, historical and schema flags). POST and GET analyze.php (queue a scan, poll by qid). GET explore.php (q, type indicators or threats, limit, format json, csv or stix). GET threat.php and feed.php (by name or id, get=links with page). TAXII 2.1 server for STIX export |
| Limits | Per the plan post of 11 March 2024, Visitor 10 requests a day and 100 a month, Free 50 and 500, Pro 250 and 2,500 (hard), Team 25,000 a month (hard), Business 100,000 a month (soft). Explore rows 10, 50, 250, 1,000 and 10,000 by tier, and linked-indicator pages 1, 2, 4 and 10 per request. The docs show only the headers and tier names |
| Errors | JSON with an error string. 400 bad request, 401 key missing or invalid, 404 not found, 429 limit exceeded (also for explore results above the plan's maximum), 500 server error. No Retry-After |
| Data model | Indicators (domain, ip, url, with ipv6 and hash in explore summaries) scored unknown to critical with risk factors, linked threats and feeds, properties from passive and active scans (geo, whois, http, ssl, dns, banners, cookies, dom) and community comments. Indicators are retired when stale |
| Docs MCP server | docs.pulsedive.com/mcp, streamable HTTP, no key, read-only search over the documentation. It does not reach the API |
| Clients | Community only. pulsedive-py (Pepe Berba), pulsedive-go (Pat Doan), pulsedive-rb (ninoseki) and Pulsedive-PS (Evgueni). Pro accounts can connect VirusTotal, Shodan and AbuseIPDB with the user's own keys |
| Company | Pulsedive LLC, New Jersey. The blog names Grace Chi as co-founder and COO. Support by support@pulsedive.com, a contact form and Discord |
| Capabilities | secintel.indicators, secintel.reputation, secintel.dns, secintel.ip-enrichment |
| Tags | hosted, freemium, no-card, free-tier, no-auth, api-key, llms-txt, openapi, async-jobs, closed-source, no-status-page |
| JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pulsedive.json |

## Score breakdown (methodology v0.7, October 2026 research run)

Assessed 2026-11-03 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: medium. Performance and Task success pending (no score, not in the total); the total is Σ(score × weight) ÷ 80 over the 7 assessed categories. "This run" is each category's share of the 100 points.

| Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% | 20 | 31 | 6.2 |
| Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 77 | 12.5 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 64 | 10.4 |
| Security & auth | 14% | 17.5 | 23 | 4.0 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 50 | 6.2 |
| Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 40 | 3.5 |
| Transparency & trust (editorial 50, provenance 64) | 7% | 8.8 | 57 | 5.0 |
| Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 |
| **Total** | | | | **47.9 → D** |

### Why each score

- Reliability 31 (checked 2026-11-03): Read with the hosted lines. No status page was found on the site, the docs, the support page or in search (0). No readable history (5). The limits page names Free, Pro, Commercial and Enterprise tiers and three remaining-request headers but gives no numbers, pointing to the account page; the vendor's plan post of 11 March 2024 gives 50 a day on Free and 250 on Pro (8 of 15). A 429 returns a JSON error naming the limit and the headers show what remains, with no Retry-After or backoff guidance; scans are safe to repeat and polling is free (8 of 15). No SLA; the terms supply the services as is and as available (0). The API is generally available (10). 0 + 5 + 8 + 8 + 0 + 10 = 31.
- Performance: Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes.
- Schema & documentation 77 (checked 2026-11-03): OpenAPI 3.0.3 documents for every endpoint, eleven YAML files under Apache 2.0, with typed parameters and response schemas, though split per endpoint and without a securitySchemes block in the scan and explore file (22 of 25). llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every page, plus a docs MCP server (10). Each endpoint states its purpose, probe and submit are explained with their side effects, and the collection page says what each timestamp means, with little on when not to call (15 of 20). Enumerated 0 or 1 flags, required parameters marked, risk and type enums, but key is optional while 401 describes it missing, and explore summaries allow types the indicator schema does not (11 of 15). curl examples on every page and an error table for 400, 401, 404, 429 and 500 with an example body (12 of 15). No API version or changelog; the docs launch post of 30 March 2026 and a footer version number are the only dated changes, and the spec marks the recent field deprecated with no date (7 of 15). 22 + 10 + 15 + 11 + 12 + 7 = 77.
- Agent ergonomics 64 (checked 2026-11-03): limit on explore, pretty, get=links or properties, historical and schema flags, and submit=0 keeps a scan out of the dataset, but an indicator record carries every property group with no field selection (16 of 25). Linked indicators page with page_current and page_next, 1 to 10 pages per request by plan, explore rows capped by tier, and CSV or STIX output (14 of 20). Errors are a single string with a status code; the 429 body names the limit (12 of 20). Every lookup is a GET, scanning an existing indicator updates it, and polling by qid is free (14 of 20). One required parameter per call and keyless defaults, but no official SDK (8 of 15). 16 + 14 + 12 + 14 + 8 = 64.
- Security & auth 23 (checked 2026-11-03): One key per account sent only as a query parameter, with no scopes, header option or rotation documented (10 for one all-powerful key less 10 for the query string, so 0). Lookups read, submit=1 writes to the public dataset and keyless use is read-only in practice, but there is no read-only key (10 of 20). Responses include community comments, banners and DOM snippets from scans with no guidance on treating them as untrusted (3 of 15). The privacy policy says web and API logs are available from the account page (10 of 15). security.txt returns 404 and no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was found (0 of 20). 0 + 10 + 3 + 10 + 0 = 23.
- Payments & pricing 50 (checked 2026-11-03): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Pro $29 a month is on the site menu and the Team and Business API prices are in the vendor's plan post of 11 March 2024, sold as monthly quotas rather than per call (10). A free account needs no card (20). Requests without a key are accepted, so an agent can look up an indicator with no signup at about 10 a day (20). 0 + 10 + 20 + 20 = 50.
- Task success: Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored.
- Maintenance & community 40 (checked 2026-11-03): Read as a closed service. The site footer shows version 6.3.18 dated 27 October, seven days before the check, and the newest blog post is 29 September 2026 (30). No changelog lists releases, so three dated changes in 90 days could not be shown (0 of 20). A Discord, support@pulsedive.com, a contact form and a docs troubleshooting section; the GitHub feedback repository is archived since 2020 (10 of 15). No entry in the official MCP registry (the docs MCP server is not listed and the registry's pulsedive entries are third-party) and no official SDK (0 of 15). No official packages to assess (0 of 10). 30 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 40.
- Transparency & trust 57 (checked 2026-11-03): A closed service with terms naming Pulsedive LLC and New Jersey law, with the OpenAPI files under Apache 2.0 (15 of 30). The privacy policy of 28 August 2024 lists processors and what is logged, keeps deleted-account data for compliance with no periods, and names no DPA; an enterprise privacy page exists and was not read (14 of 30). The recent field is marked deprecated in the spec with no date and there is no policy (5 of 20). DigitalOcean, Plausible, Stripe, SendGrid, Google Workspace, Monday, QuickBooks and Typeform named, storage in the United States (16 of 20). 15 + 14 + 5 + 16 = 50.

Fix list, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (20 items). What it covers is at https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/pulsedive.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/pulsedive.json). The whole list for a coding agent comes from `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/fix-list` with `{"listing": "pulsedive", "plan": "read"}`, free while the beta runs

### What we couldn't check

- unchecked: the current plan tables on pulsedive.com/about/api and /about/pro, which render by script; only the Pro $29 a month menu item was readable, and the Team, Business and feed prices are from the vendor's post of 11 March 2024
- unchecked: the enterprise privacy page linked from the footer
- unchecked: the row size of a linked-indicator page and the per-second limit, which the docs leave to the account page
- Whether the free tier may be used commercially; the terms do not say, and the limits page calls the Commercial API the tier for commercial use
- Who founded the company; the blog's author page names Grace Chi as co-founder and COO, and no first-hand page for Dan Sherry was found (blog.pulsedive.com/author/dan answered 403 and /author/dan-sherry 404)
- firstReleased is the domain registration date, 11 November 2016
- The terms forbid any automated process against the services; public pages and the docs were read for this listing and the clause is recorded as a fact

### Sources

- docs index: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- llms.txt: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/llms.txt> (seen 2026-11-03)
- API quickstart: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/api/quickstart.md> (seen 2026-11-03)
- API overview (endpoints): <https://docs.pulsedive.com/api/overview.md> (seen 2026-11-03)
- authentication: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/api/authentication.md> (seen 2026-11-03)
- rate limits: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/api/limits.md> (seen 2026-11-03)
- responses and errors: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/api/responses.md> (seen 2026-11-03)
- pagination: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/api/pagination.md> (seen 2026-11-03)
- data collection and timestamps: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/model/collection.md> (seen 2026-11-03)
- OpenAPI, indicator by value: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/api/indicator/indicator-by-value.yaml> (seen 2026-11-03)
- OpenAPI, scan and explore: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/api/scan-explore.yaml> (seen 2026-11-03)
- docs MCP server: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/troubleshoot/resources/docs-mcp.md> (seen 2026-11-03)
- libraries (community): <https://docs.pulsedive.com/libraries.md> (seen 2026-11-03)
- customer support: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/troubleshoot/support.md> (seen 2026-11-03)
- plan updates of 11 March 2024 (limits and prices): <https://blog.pulsedive.com/pulsedive-plan-updates-2024/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- advance notice of plan changes, 19 January 2024: <https://blog.pulsedive.com/upcoming-price-plan-changes/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- docs launch post, 30 March 2026: <https://blog.pulsedive.com/update-introducing-pulsedive-docs/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- blog index: <https://blog.pulsedive.com/> (seen 2026-11-03)
- terms of service: <https://pulsedive.com/terms> (seen 2026-11-03)
- privacy policy: <https://pulsedive.com/privacy> (seen 2026-11-03)
- company page (footer version, JS-rendered body): <https://pulsedive.com/about/company> (seen 2026-11-03)
- MCP registry search (third-party entries only): <https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=pulsedive> (seen 2026-11-03)
- GitHub organisation repositories: <https://api.github.com/orgs/pulsedive/repos> (seen 2026-11-03)
- security.txt (404): <https://pulsedive.com/.well-known/security.txt> (seen 2026-11-03)
- robots.txt: <https://pulsedive.com/robots.txt> (seen 2026-11-03)
- RDAP for pulsedive.com: <https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/pulsedive.com> (seen 2026-11-03)

## Score history

Every move of a score since the listing was graded, newest first, with its cause. A score can't move without an entry here. JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pulsedive/history.json

- 2026-11-03: graded 47.9 D (methodology 0.7)

## Who's behind it (provenance 64/100, checked 2026-11-03)

| Check | Finding | Points |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Legal entity named | Pulsedive LLC | 20/20 |
| Domain age | pulsedive.com, registered 2016-11-11 (9 years) | 11/15 |
| Endpoint on the vendor's domain | pulsedive.com | 15/15 |
| Terms of service | read, states 5 of the 7 things a reader expects, and has 2 clauses that cost points | 4.3/10 |
| Privacy policy | read, states 6 of the 8 things a reader expects | 8.5/10 |
| Status page | not found | 0/10 |
| Changelog | not found | 0/10 |
| security.txt | not found | 0/10 |
| People named | 1 named with their role, 1 with a public profile | 10/10 |
| Support route | a support address, help pages, a community | 5/5 |

The terms, last updated 2 May 2022, name Pulsedive LLC under New Jersey law. The privacy policy, last updated 28 August 2024, gives no postal address. The site footer reads Pulsedive LLC.

The terms forbid any robot, spider or other automatic process to access the services. Public pages and the docs were read for this listing and the clause is recorded as a fact.

pulsedive.com/robots.txt allows all. docs.pulsedive.com/robots.txt allows all but /cdn-cgi/ and /_next/ and carries Content-Signal ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes.

No status page was found on the site, the docs, the support page or in search. No changelog was found; the blog carries product posts and the footer a version number.

pulsedive.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. RDAP at Verisign gives a registration date of 11 November 2016.

### Terms and privacy, as read

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice.

**Terms of service** (https://pulsedive.com/terms), read 2026-11-03, dated 2022-05-02, states 5 of the 7 things a reader expects.

- To know. Restricts automated access (costs points). "Use any robot, spider, or other automatic device, process, or means to access the Services for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on the Services;"
- To know. Says the terms or the service can change without notice (costs points). "These Terms may be updated at any time, with or without notice."
- To know. Says access can be ended without notice or for any reason. "We reserve the right to limit the sale of or terminate any of our Premium Services to any person, geographic region, or jurisdiction without notice and for any reason."
- To know. Has not been updated for three years or more. "Last updated: 2022-05-02"
- Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2022-05-02.
- Names the governing law or courts. The law of the State of New Jersey.
- Not found in the text. Says how changes to the terms are announced.
- Not found in the text. Refers to a service level or uptime commitment.
- Also in the text (2026-11-03). Submitted Content is licensed to Pulsedive irrevocably and worldwide, including the right to modify, publish, distribute and sell it. "you hereby grant us (and those we work with) a worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable and transferable license to use, edit, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works of, communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, distribute, and sell such content."
- Also in the text (2026-11-03). After account deletion the username, user ID and API key stay in the database to prevent reuse. "Your username, user ID, and API key will not be removed from our database to prevent reuse."

**Privacy policy** (https://pulsedive.com/privacy), read 2026-11-03, dated 2024-08-28, states 6 of the 8 things a reader expects.

- Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2024-08-28.
- Says how long data is kept. Names a period of 3 months.
- Not found in the text. Gives a privacy contact.
- Not found in the text. Says where data is transferred or stored.
- Also in the text (2026-11-03). Content submitted to Pulsedive is added to its data set and made available through its free and premium services. "If you choose to submit content to Pulsedive, we will use that data to improve our data set. This data will be made available through our free and premium services."

## Humans behind the project (researched 2026-11-03 from public pages, not part of the grade)

### Key people

- Grace Chi, Co-founder and COO. X: https://x.com/euphoricfall
- Note: Grace Chi's role and X account come from her author page on the vendor's blog. Outside pages (podcast listings and an interview) call Dan Sherry co-founder and CEO, but no first-hand page was found; blog.pulsedive.com/author/dan answered 403, /author/dan-sherry 404, and the company page at pulsedive.com/about/company renders its body by script, so he is not listed and the roster may be incomplete. The terms name Pulsedive LLC under New Jersey law. Investors were looked for on the company page, the terms, the privacy policy, the blog index, the 2025 year-in-review post and one outside search; nothing names a round or an investor.
- Pulsedive LLC: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/pulsedive/ X https://x.com/pulsedive GitHub https://github.com/pulsedive

### Getting support

- Discord: https://discord.gg/8eXX2gb8bP
- Support email: support@pulsedive.com
- Help: https://docs.pulsedive.com/troubleshoot/support.md
- Help: https://docs.pulsedive.com/troubleshoot/common-issues/
- Help: https://pulsedive.com/contact
- Sources: https://blog.pulsedive.com/author/grace/, https://blog.pulsedive.com/2025-in-review/, https://blog.pulsedive.com/, https://docs.pulsedive.com/troubleshoot/support.md, https://pulsedive.com/terms, https://pulsedive.com/privacy, https://pulsedive.com/about/company, https://pulsedive.com/discord, https://api.github.com/orgs/pulsedive/repos

## Live (updated 2026-11-04 15:54 UTC)

- security.txt: none
- Always current: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/live/pulsedive.json

## Probe metrics

Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. Live uptime, where we poll the endpoint, is under Live and doesn't change the score.

## Prices

| Item | Price | Unit | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pro, 250 requests a day | $29 | per month (plan) | $348 a year; limits per the plan post of 11 March 2024 |
| Team API, 25,000 requests a month | $300 | per month (plan) | $3,000 a year, per the plan post of 11 March 2024 |
| Business API, 100,000 requests a month | $900 | per month (plan) | $9,000 a year, soft limit, per the plan post of 11 March 2024 |

Across all listings: https://www.anchorterminal.com/prices/index.md

## Strengths

- Keyless lookups and a free account with no card (50 requests a day, 500 a month per the March 2024 plan post)
- llms.txt, Markdown docs, eleven OpenAPI 3.0.3 files and a docs MCP server, all published in March 2026
- Every indicator carries stamp_seen, stamp_probed and stamp_updated, and scans can run passively or actively without storing the result
- Three X-Requests-Remaining headers on every response and a documented error table for 400, 401, 404, 429 and 500
- Explore returns JSON, CSV or STIX 2.1, and feeds and threats page through linked indicators

## Weaknesses

- The key is sent only as a query parameter, with no header option, scopes or rotation documented
- No status page, SLA, security.txt, disclosure policy or certification was found
- The docs give no numeric rate limits and no Retry-After; the numbers come from the vendor's plan post of 11 March 2024
- No official SDK (community Python, Go, Ruby and PowerShell clients), no API version and no changelog
- The terms bar copying, selling, licensing or distributing content from the service and any automated process against it



## Before you call it (notes for agents)

1. Call `indicator.php?indicator=<value>&pretty=1&key=...`; without a key the limit is about 10 requests a day, so register for 50
2. Read `risk`, `risk_recommended` and `stamp_probed` together; an old `stamp_probed` means the scan data may be stale, so queue a scan with `analyze.php` (`probe=0` passive, `submit=0` to avoid storing)
3. Poll `analyze.php?qid=` no more than every 500 ms; polling does not count against the quota, but each page of linked indicators does
4. Treat a 429 as the day's or month's quota spent and stop; there is no Retry-After, and explore searches above the plan's row limit also return 429
5. Expect user comments, banners and DOM snippets in indicator properties, which are third-party content

## Connect

First request:

```bash
curl "https://pulsedive.com/api/indicator.php?indicator=example.com&pretty=1&key=$PULSEDIVE_API_KEY"
```

Claude Code:

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http pulsedive-docs https://docs.pulsedive.com/mcp
```

Through letme: https://letme.dev/pulsedive. letme answers with the pick and how to call it direct. How it works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/letme/index.md

## Similar tools

Ranked by shared capabilities, then score. Same-category tools with no shared capability key are listed last.

| Tool | Grade | Score | Rank | Shared capabilities | x402 | Markdown |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Censys | B | 64.1 | 420 | secintel.dns, secintel.ip-enrichment, secintel.reputation, secintel.indicators | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/censys.md |
| WhoisXML API | C | 56.8 | 771 | secintel.dns, secintel.reputation, secintel.ip-enrichment, secintel.indicators | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/whoisxml-api.md |
| GreyNoise | B | 66 | 350 | secintel.reputation, secintel.ip-enrichment, secintel.indicators | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/greynoise.md |
| AbuseIPDB | C | 55.7 | 819 | secintel.reputation, secintel.indicators, secintel.ip-enrichment | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abuseipdb.md |
| Shodan | E | 39.5 | 1221 | secintel.ip-enrichment, secintel.dns, secintel.indicators | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shodan.md |
| VirusTotal | B | 67.5 | 288 | secintel.reputation, secintel.indicators | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/virustotal.md |

## Panel reviews (0)

Reviewed by the Anchor panel (https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviewers/index.md): .

Desk reviews, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. For a desk review, the outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material: success, partial or failure. How reviews work: https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviews/how-it-works.md

## Notable

- Five endpoints under pulsedive.com/api (indicator.php, analyze.php, explore.php, threat.php and feed.php). analyze.php scans with probe=0 passive or probe=1 active and submit=1 to store, explore.php takes a query language with CSV, JSON or STIX output, and scans are queued and polled by qid (source: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/api/overview.md>)
- A docs site launched on 30 March 2026 with llms.txt, Markdown twins, eleven per-endpoint OpenAPI 3.0.3 files under Apache 2.0, live playgrounds and a read-only docs MCP server at docs.pulsedive.com/mcp that needs no key (source: <https://blog.pulsedive.com/update-introducing-pulsedive-docs/>)
- Every response carries X-Requests-Remaining-Second, -Day and -Month headers; the docs name Free, Pro, Commercial and Enterprise tiers without numbers and point to the account page, while the plan post of 11 March 2024 gives 50 a day on Free and 250 on Pro (source: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/api/limits.md>)
- Indicator records carry stamp_added, stamp_updated, stamp_seen, stamp_probed and stamp_retired, so an agent can tell when a scan last confirmed a result (source: <https://docs.pulsedive.com/model/collection.md>)
- The terms, last updated 2 May 2022, name Pulsedive LLC under New Jersey law and bar copying, selling, licensing or distributing content from the service and any robot or automated process against the service (source: <https://pulsedive.com/terms>)
- The privacy policy of 28 August 2024 says web and API logs are available from the account page and names DigitalOcean, Plausible, Stripe, SendGrid and other processors in the United States (source: <https://pulsedive.com/privacy>)
- The site footer shows version 6.3.18 dated 27 October on 3 November 2026; no changelog, status page or security.txt was found (source: <https://pulsedive.com/about/company>)

- #7 of 9 in Best threat and security intelligence APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/security-intelligence/index.md
- All 33 security intel comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/security-intelligence/index.md

## Compare

- [AbuseIPDB vs Pulsedive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abuseipdb-vs-pulsedive.md): C 55.7 vs D 47.9
- [GreyNoise vs Pulsedive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greynoise-vs-pulsedive.md): B 66 vs D 47.9
- [IPinfo vs Pulsedive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ipinfo-vs-pulsedive.md): B 62.7 vs D 47.9
- [Pulsedive vs SecurityTrails](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pulsedive-vs-securitytrails.md): D 47.9 vs F 30.7
- [Censys vs Pulsedive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/censys-vs-pulsedive.md): B 64.1 vs D 47.9
- [Pulsedive vs Shodan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pulsedive-vs-shodan.md): D 47.9 vs E 39.5
- [Pulsedive vs VirusTotal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pulsedive-vs-virustotal.md): D 47.9 vs B 67.5
- [Pulsedive vs WhoisXML API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pulsedive-vs-whoisxml-api.md): D 47.9 vs C 56.8

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HTML badge:

```html
<a href="https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulsedive"><img src="https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/pulsedive.svg" alt="Pulsedive on Anchor Terminal" height="20"></a>
```

Markdown badge, for a README:

```markdown
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```

Plain link:

```html
<a href="https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulsedive">Pulsedive on Anchor Terminal</a>
```

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- Light: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/share/pulsedive-light.png

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