Quick Facts
- Website
- virustotal.com
- Pricing Starts At
- $75,000/year Google Threat Intelligence Standard
- Free Tier
- Noncommercial Public API: 500 requests/day and 4 requests/minute
- Category
- Threat and vulnerability intelligence APIs, IP intelligence and reputation APIs
- How usage is billed
- Credits, pages, requests, records, compute units, subscriptions, and browser-time blocks are not interchangeable.
- Enterprise Plan
- $1.1 million/year Enterprise+
Overview
VirusTotal analyzes domains, URLs, and files for malware and malicious activity using 70+ antivirus engines and security tools.
Pros & Cons
✓ Pros
- Industry-leading threat detection
- Google-owned reliability
- Generous free tier
− Cons
- Security-only focus
- No domain registration features
- Rate limits on free tier
Compare with DomScan →
See how VirusTotal compares to DomScan across features, pricing, and TLD coverage.
VirusTotal vs DomScan
| Feature | VirusTotal | DomScan |
|---|---|---|
| Free Tier | ✓ | ✓ 10,000/month |
| Domain Availability | ✓ | ✓ |
| WHOIS Data | ✓ | ✓ |
| DNS Lookup | ✓ | ✓ |
| Domain Valuation | − | ✓ |
| Brand Monitoring | Limited | ✓ |
| MCP/AI Integration | − | ✓ |
| Bulk Operations | Limited | ✓ |
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