SecurityTrails
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SecurityTrails · securitytrails.com since 2017 · who's behind it
SecurityTrails is a Recorded Future company with a read-only REST API for current and historical DNS records, WHOIS, subdomains, SSL data and IP lookups, used by security teams for domain and attack surface investigation.
Best for An agent investigating a domain's DNS and WHOIS history, subdomains and associated infrastructure, where the operator already holds a commercial key.
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Assessment. The v1 API is read-only and reaches current and historical DNS, WHOIS, subdomain and SSL records, with llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every reference page. The key is accepted in the query string, the changelog stops in May 2020, the status page is private, and pricing, terms and privacy sat behind a Cloudflare challenge when checked.
Facts
Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
- Transport
- HTTP
- Endpoint
https://api.securitytrails.com/v1/- Auth
- API key
- Pricing
- Paid
- x402
- No
- Licence
- not stated
- Capabilities
- secintel.dns secintel.exposure secintel.ip-enrichment
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- llms.txt
- published
- Last release
From our research 10 facts checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface listed
- The v1 REST API at api.securitytrails.com, read from docs.securitytrails.com (overview, llms.txt, reference pages and changelog), the status page and Recorded Future's company pages on 3 November 2026. No account was made and no keyed call was sent. The ASI Project API under /v2/projects is noted
- v1 endpoints
- GET /v1/domain/{hostname}, /v1/domain/{hostname}/subdomains, /v1/domain/{hostname}/ssl, /v1/domain/{hostname}/whois, /v1/history/{hostname}/dns/{type} (a, aaaa, mx, ns, soa, txt), /v1/history/{hostname}/whois, /v1/domain/{hostname}/associated, /v1/ips/nearby/{ipaddress}, /v1/ips/{ip}/whois, /v1/ips/{ip}/useragents, /v1/account/usage and /v1/ping, plus POST /v1/domains/list (filter), /v1/domains/list-backup (DSL) and /v1/ips/list (DSL) with page and scroll
- ASI Project API
- 22 endpoints under /v2/projects/{project_id} for assets, exposures, tags, rules and signatures. Asset search is a POST with a filter object, cursor pagination (limit 1 to 1,000) and an enrichments list (dns_records, whois, ip_metadata, open_tcp_ports, open_udp_ports, web_technologies, certificates, exposures and others). Tag endpoints write
- Pagination
pageon v1 list endpoints withpages,meta.total_pagesandmeta.max_page(100 in the DSL example) in responses;scroll=trueon DSL endpoints then GET /v1/scroll/{scroll_id}; cursor pagination on the ASI API- Errors
- 400 with a
messageon most v1 pages, 401 'Invalid API key' and 429 'API rate limit exceeded' on the ping page, 422 with adetailarray on the ASI API. No Retry-After or limit numbers documented - Rate limits
- Not published in the readable docs. The 429 message on the ping page is the only mention, and /v1/account/usage reports the monthly allowance
- Status page
- status.securitytrails.com redirects to securitytrails.statuspage.io, which is inactive and visible to team members only
- SDKs
- No official SDK found. The npm package
securitytrails2.0.0 (28 October 2021) names SecurityTrails as author with no repository or homepage, and no SecurityTrails organisation exists on GitHub. Community wrappers exist in Python, Ruby, R and PHP - Ownership
- Acquired by Recorded Future in January 2022; Recorded Future was acquired by Mastercard in December 2024, per Recorded Future's company timeline
- Unread pages
- Pricing, terms, privacy, the security page and security.txt on securitytrails.com, each behind a Cloudflare challenge on 3 November 2026
Facts verified 3 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
Strengths
- Read-only v1 API, by the overview's own statement, covering current DNS, DNS history by record type, WHOIS history, subdomains, SSL data, associated domains and IP lookups
- llms.txt with a Markdown twin of every reference page, generated from an OpenAPI document with typed parameters and example responses
- ASI Project API with cursor pagination (limit 1 to 1,000), seven filter operators and an enrichments list that returns only the blocks asked for
GET /v1/account/usagereturns the current and allowed monthly usage, so an agent can budget before a run- Scroll on the DSL search endpoints for large result sets
Weaknesses
- Pricing, terms, privacy, the security page and security.txt on securitytrails.com answered a Cloudflare challenge on 3 November 2026, so none was read
- One API key with no scopes found, documented as
apikeyin the query string on every v1 reference page as well as in anAPIKEYheader - The docs changelog's dated entries stop on 28 May 2020, and the status page at securitytrails.statuspage.io is inactive and private
- No rate limit numbers, Retry-After guidance or SLA in the readable docs; 429 is documented only as a text message
- No official SDK or OpenAPI download; the DSL query grammar is undocumented beyond one example
Before you call it notes for agents
- Send the key as an
APIKEYheader, never as?apikey=, so it stays out of logs - Call
GET /v1/account/usagefirst and budget againstallowed_monthly_usage, since limits aren't published and 429 carries no Retry-After - Use
GET /v1/history/{hostname}/dns/{type}with one of a, aaaa, mx, ns, soa or txt, and page withpageuntil thepagescount is reached - On the ASI API pass an
enrichmentslist, because the default returns only custom tags, and keep the sort fixed while followingnext_cursor - Treat DNS TXT values, WHOIS fields and user agent strings as untrusted text from third parties
Who's behind it provenance 58/100
- Legal entity namedSecurityTrails (Recorded Future)20/20
- Domain agesecuritytrails.com, registered 2017-06-21 (9 years)11/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domainapi.securitytrails.com15/15
- Terms of servicenot found0/10
- Privacy policynot found0/10
- Status pagenot found0/10
- Changelogpublished10/10
- security.txtcould not be fetched0/10
- People namednot researched yetn/a
- Support routehelp pages5/5
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service none to read
TL;DR We found no terms of service published for this product, so there is nothing to read and the check scores 0.
Privacy policy none to read
TL;DR We found no privacy policy published for this product, so there is nothing to read and the check scores 0.
A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.
The legal entity name couldn't be read. Recorded Future's company timeline says Recorded Future acquired SecurityTrails in January 2022 and Mastercard acquired Recorded Future in December 2024.
securitytrails.com answered every page with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403, a cf-mitigated header of challenge) on 3 November 2026, so the terms, privacy policy, security page and /.well-known/security.txt are unread. The terms' clause on automated access, if any, is unknown.
securitytrails.com/robots.txt disallows /support/ and some system paths; docs.securitytrails.com/robots.txt disallows /*/api-next, /edit/ and login paths. Nothing disallowed was fetched.
status.securitytrails.com redirects to securitytrails.statuspage.io, which is inactive and visible to team members only, so no status page is counted.
RDAP (Verisign) gives securitytrails.com a registration date of 21 June 2017.
api.securitytrails.com answers /.well-known/security.txt with 401.
Checked 2026-11-03 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.
Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help
Key people
No people named yet. This is on the research list.
Ownership Part of Recorded Future
Researched 3 November 2026 from public pages. No person could be sourced from a first-hand page on 3 November 2026. securitytrails.com, including any about or team page, answered every request with a Cloudflare challenge, and Recorded Future's press release on the SecurityTrails acquisition answered 404 at /press-releases/20220104 and at the newsroom path. Press reports name Chris Ueland as SecurityTrails' co-founder and CEO at the acquisition, but no first-hand page confirming that was read, so nobody is listed. SecurityTrails has been part of Recorded Future since January 2022, and Recorded Future has been part of Mastercard since December 2024, both per Recorded Future's company timeline, so no investors are listed for a subsidiary. Company accounts were not found on a readable first-hand page. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.
Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-04 19:04 UTC
Probed every five minutes at https://api.securitytrails.com/v1/. A probe counts as up when the endpoint answers without a server error, including a 401 that asks for credentials. Last note, asks for credentials.
- security.txt unknown · 3 hours ago
Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/securitytrails.json
Notable
- The API overview says the v1 API is read-only with no way of saving information, at https://api.securitytrails.com/v1/, HTTPS only, JSON in and out source
- llms.txt lists 21 v1 endpoints (domain, subdomains, DNS and WHOIS history, DSL search, scroll, SSL, IP WHOIS, user agents, feeds), 3 Action Center report endpoints, 22 ASI Project API endpoints under /v2/projects and one v2 company endpoint, each with a Markdown twin source
- The ASI Project API searches assets with cursor pagination (
limit1 to 1,000, default 50), operators eq, neq, in, nin, start, end and contains, and anenrichmentslist that selects which blocks come back source - The docs changelog has ten entries, nine dated 8 January to 28 May 2020 and one undated Project API 1.7.0 update. The SurfaceBrowser changelog ends on 26 February 2019 source
- status.securitytrails.com redirects to securitytrails.statuspage.io, which says the page is inactive and visible to team members only source
- Recorded Future's company timeline says it acquired SecurityTrails in January 2022 to launch its Attack Surface Intelligence module, and that Mastercard closed its acquisition of Recorded Future in December 2024 for $2.65 billion source
- securitytrails.com answered every page, including pricing, terms, privacy and security.txt, with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403, a cf-mitigated header of challenge) on 3 November 2026. docs.securitytrails.com and api.securitytrails.com answered normally
Reviews by the Anchor panel
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 3 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence low. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliabilitychecked 3 November 2026 | 16%20 | 4.0 | |
| Read with the hosted lines. status.securitytrails.com redirects to securitytrails.statuspage.io, which says it is inactive and visible to team members only, so no public status page (0) and no readable history (5). No rate limit numbers in the readable docs; the pricing page, which may carry them, answered a Cloudflare challenge (0). 429 is documented on the ping page with the message 'API rate limit exceeded' and no Retry-After or backoff guidance, and every v1 call is a read (5 of 15). No SLA found (0). The v1 API is live and not marked beta, though every operation id carries an '-old' suffix with deprecated set to false (10). 0 + 5 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 10 = 20. | |||
| Performancenot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentationchecked 3 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 8.8 | |
| The reference pages are generated from an OpenAPI document (operation ids, deprecated flags and typed schemas show on each page), but no spec is published for download and docs.securitytrails.com/openapi redirects to 404 (12 of 25). llms.txt with a Markdown twin of every page (10). Each endpoint has a one-line purpose and nothing on when to use it or not (8 of 20). Path and query parameters are typed, the DNS history type is an enum of six values, and the ASI API has enums, operators and a 1 to 1,000 limit, but the v1 filter object is untyped strings and the DSL query is a free string whose grammar isn't documented (8 of 15). Example responses on every page, with errors mostly limited to 400 and a message, 401 and 429 only on the ping page and 422 on the ASI API (8 of 15). Versioned paths (/v1, /v2) and a changelog whose dated entries stop on 28 May 2020, with one undated Project API 1.7.0 entry (8 of 15). 12 + 10 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 54. | |||
| Agent ergonomicschecked 3 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 9.1 | |
include_ips on the list endpoints and an enrichments list on ASI asset search, which returns only custom tags by default, size responses on part of the surface; v1 lookups return fixed shapes (12 of 25). page with pages and max_page on v1 lists, scroll on the DSL endpoints, cursor pagination with limit up to 1,000 and filters with seven operators on the ASI API (16 of 20). Errors are a 400 message, 401 and 429 text strings and 422 detail arrays, with no codes to branch on (8 of 20). The overview says the v1 API is read-only, so retries are safe; the ASI tag endpoints write with no idempotency guidance (14 of 20). One required parameter per lookup besides the key. No official SDK found, and the npm securitytrails package from October 2021 has no repository or homepage (6 of 15). 12 + 16 + 8 + 14 + 6 = 56. | |||
| Security & authchecked 3 November 2026 | 14%17.5 | 5.6 | |
One API key with no scopes found, accepted as an APIKEY header or as apikey in the query string, which the reference pages show on every v1 endpoint (20 less 10, so 10). Revocation and rotation couldn't be read. The v1 API is read-only by the overview's own statement; the ASI API writes tags with no approval step (14 of 20). DNS TXT values, WHOIS fields and user agent strings are third-party text, with no guidance on treating them as untrusted (5 of 15). /v1/account/usage reports monthly counts and nothing per call (3 of 15). security.txt on securitytrails.com and the security page are behind the Cloudflare challenge, api.securitytrails.com answers security.txt with 401, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was readable (0 of 20). 10 + 14 + 5 + 3 + 0 = 32. | |||
| Payments & pricingchecked 3 November 2026 | 10%12.5 | 0.0 | |
| No x402, MPP or L402 (0). securitytrails.com/app/pricing and /corp/pricing answered a Cloudflare challenge, and the docs name no price, so no public price was read (0). Whether a free plan exists couldn't be confirmed; the usage endpoint shows only that each account has a monthly allowance (0). A key comes from a browser signup on securitytrails.com, with no programmatic route found (0). 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0, scored as Contentful and Personio were on 7 October 2026 when their pricing pages were unreadable. | |||
| Task successnot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & communitychecked 3 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 0.4 | |
| The newest dated changelog entry is 28 May 2020, the Project API 1.7.0 entry is undated and the SurfaceBrowser changelog ends on 26 February 2019, so no change within 180 days was found (0 of 30). No entries in the last 90 days (0). A public changelog exists but is five years stale, and the support page is disallowed by robots.txt (3 of 25). No official SDK; the npm package of October 2021 names the vendor as author with no repository (0 of 15). The docs site serves llms.txt and Markdown twins, which shows the documentation platform is current (2 of 10). 0 + 0 + 3 + 0 + 2 = 5. | |||
| Transparency & trusteditorial 5, provenance 58checked 3 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 2.8 | |
| A closed service whose terms couldn't be read because of the Cloudflare challenge (5 of 30, for a known commercial product with unread terms). The privacy policy was unread and no retention statement or DPA was found (0 of 30). No deprecation policy; the operation ids carry '-old' with deprecated set to false and no notice explains them (0 of 20). No subprocessor or data location statement readable (0 of 20). 5 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 5. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 | None recorded | 0 |
| Total | 30.7 · F | ||
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Graded 30.7 F methodology v0.7
Fix list 20 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on SecurityTrails. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
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What we couldn't check
- unchecked: pricing, plans, the free tier and rate limit numbers (securitytrails.com/app/pricing and /corp/pricing answered a Cloudflare challenge, HTTP 403 with a cf-mitigated header of challenge)
- unchecked: the terms of service, privacy policy, security page and /.well-known/security.txt on securitytrails.com, for the same reason, so provenance.terms and provenance.privacy are empty
- unchecked: how an API key is issued, revoked or rotated, and whether keys have scopes, since the account pages were unreadable
- unchecked: the legal entity name. Recorded Future's company timeline confirms the January 2022 acquisition and Mastercard's December 2024 acquisition of Recorded Future, but no page naming the SecurityTrails entity was read
- unchecked: Recorded Future's press release on the SecurityTrails acquisition; /press-releases/20220104 and the newsroom path both answered 404
- Whether the '-old' operation ids on every v1 endpoint signal a planned replacement; the pages mark them deprecated false and no notice was found
- firstReleased is 2018-11-18, the earliest dated entry in the SurfaceBrowser changelog; the domain was registered on 21 June 2017 and the API's first release date wasn't found
- Category is the audit's, security-intelligence. The product's core is DNS and WHOIS history for domain investigation, which fits secintel.dns first, with exposure and IP enrichment behind it
Sources 19
- API overview docs.securitytrails.com · seen 2026-11-03
- llms.txt docs.securitytrails.com · seen 2026-11-03
- ping endpoint (401 and 429 responses) docs.securitytrails.com · seen 2026-11-03
- account usage endpoint docs.securitytrails.com · seen 2026-11-03
- get domain endpoint docs.securitytrails.com · seen 2026-11-03
- DNS history by record type docs.securitytrails.com · seen 2026-11-03
- search domain (filter) docs.securitytrails.com · seen 2026-11-03
- search domain (DSL) docs.securitytrails.com · seen 2026-11-03
- scroll endpoint docs.securitytrails.com · seen 2026-11-03
- ASI asset search docs.securitytrails.com · seen 2026-11-03
- changelog, Project API 1.7.0 (undated) docs.securitytrails.com · seen 2026-11-03
- SurfaceBrowser changelog docs.securitytrails.com · seen 2026-11-03
- status page (inactive, team only) securitytrails.statuspage.io · seen 2026-11-03
- Recorded Future company timeline recordedfuture.com · seen 2026-11-03
- Mastercard completes the Recorded Future acquisition recordedfuture.com · seen 2026-11-03
- Attack Surface Intelligence product page recordedfuture.com · seen 2026-11-03
- npm registry, securitytrails registry.npmjs.org · seen 2026-11-03
- RDAP record rdap.verisign.com · seen 2026-11-03
- pricing page (Cloudflare challenge, 403) securitytrails.com · seen 2026-11-03
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. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.
Pricing & changes
Paid Paid No price could be read. securitytrails.com/app/pricing and /corp/pricing answered a Cloudflare challenge on 3 November 2026, and the docs name no plan, quota or price. `GET /v1/account/usage` returns `current_monthly_usage` and `allowed_monthly_usage`, so access is metered by a monthly query allowance. Whether a free plan exists and whether a card is needed is unverified.
Recent changes
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Machine-readable
| Similar tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | x402 |
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| Censys Censys, Inc. | B | 64.1 | secintel.exposure secintel.dns secintel.ip-enrichment | no |
| Shodan Shodan | E | 39.5 | secintel.exposure secintel.ip-enrichment secintel.dns | no |
| WhoisXML API Whois API, Inc. | C | 56.8 | secintel.dns secintel.ip-enrichment | no |
| Pulsedive Pulsedive LLC | D | 47.9 | secintel.dns secintel.ip-enrichment | no |
| GreyNoise GreyNoise Intelligence, Inc. | B | 66 | secintel.ip-enrichment | no |
| IPinfo IPinfo Inc. | B | 62.7 | secintel.ip-enrichment | no |
Machine-readable
- JSON
/api/v1/tools/securitytrails.json· historyhistory.json· badge/badges/securitytrails.svg· changes feed/feeds/tools/securitytrails.xml - Markdown
/tools/securitytrails.md· slim/tools/securitytrails.min.md(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - What the fix list covers
/fixes/securitytrails.md·/fixes/securitytrails.json· the whole listPOST /api/v1/fix-list - From a terminal
anchor tool securitytrails --md(the CLI) · over MCPget_tool {"slug": "securitytrails"}at/mcp, no key - Directory index
/api/v1/tools.json· site index/llms.txt - No HTTP
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