Censys is a platform for Internet intelligence and exposure management: **“The one place to understand and act on everything on the Internet.”** It provides **“purpose-built capabilities that power security operations and exposure management,”** including Censys Search, Censys Core, Adversary Investigation, Attack Surface Management, and Critical Infrastructure Monitoring.

Censys gives teams **“access to the industry’s most comprehensive and up-to-date view of the internet.”** Its use-case guides are for modern security teams to **“investigate, prioritize, respond, and reduce risk,”** across SOC modernization, adversary intelligence and threat hunting, external exposure management, and critical infrastructure resilience.

Pricing and plan details describe use for individuals and security teams:

- **Individual**: “For individuals that need visibility to Internet-connected assets.” Starting at $100, with API access, entity/standard/advanced search query types, 1 week of host data history, up to 500 results per query, and raw/JSON data download.

- **Security Operations**: “For SOC teams that need detailed insights to IPs, hosts, services, & certificates during triage.” Custom pricing, customizable users, API access, enterprise RBAC, SSO and SAML support, 1 month of host data history, unlimited results per query, and raw/JSON data download.

- **Threat Hunting**: “For security teams that want to preemptively hunt and track adversarial infrastructure.” Custom pricing, customizable users, API access, enterprise RBAC, SSO and SAML support, 1 month of host data history, unlimited results per query, and raw/JSON data download.

Available data visibility includes protocols, services, certificates, host data history, matched fields, CPE-based context fields, and application scanner data depending on plan. Enterprise and Threat Hunting customers can add Gold Support.