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VirusTotal Replacement

The Enterprise Replacement for VirusTotal

Replace VirusTotal with PolySwarm: private scanning, unlimited YARA hunting, and full data control at 50% of the cost. No forced bundles, permanent data retention, and real customer support. Built for security teams who value discretion.

Why Teams Switch from VirusTotal

Rising Costs & Forced Bundles

Many organisations face large renewal bills as pricing often includes broader Google Threat Intelligence bundles. Get similar functionality at 50% of the cost without being forced into bundled packages.

Limited Privacy & Data Expiration

VirusTotal's private scanning options may limit functionality, and results may have limited retention periods. PolySwarm gives you full capability with permanent data retention.

Limited Search on Private Data

Customers report limited search and correlation capabilities on VirusTotal private submissions. PolySwarm supports full hash, URL, and metadata search on all private data.

How PolySwarm Works

1

Submit

Upload files, URLs, domains, or IPs to your private enclave

2

Analyze

35+ diverse engines including vendor engines, sandboxes, and ML models

3

PolyScore

Get a single definitive verdict with enriched context

4

Hunt

Run unlimited YARA rules for live and historical hunting

Full Capability with Full Privacy

PolySwarm integrates with your existing security tools and workflows via API, webhooks, and threat intelligence exchange standards.

Private Submissions Stay Private

All submissions to your private enclave remain private. Only your team and selected engines can view results. Data is never shared with the community or other customers.

Permanent Data Retention

Unlike VirusTotal's limited retention policies, PolySwarm stores your private submissions permanently unless you delete them. Enables long-term incident response and historical hunting.

Unlimited YARA Hunting

Unlimited YARA rules per ruleset, enabling both live hunts (real-time alerts) and historical hunts (query your entire private corpus back to 2018).

SOC Stack Integrations

Integrate with Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel, Cortex XSOAR, and more via API and webhooks.

50%+
Average cost savings vs VirusTotal
35+
Malware analysis engines
2018
Historical archive start date

Replace VirusTotal with Confidence

If you're unhappy with VirusTotal's rising costs, privacy gaps, or limited features, PolySwarm provides broader coverage, deeper insights, higher accuracy, and full privacy at lower cost.