Alternatives to Sucuri SiteCheck
Free remote scanner that checks a website for visible malware, blocklisting and outdated software. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Sucuri SiteCheck
Free remote scanner that checks a website for visible malware, blocklisting and outdated software.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Sucuri SiteCheck.
Quttera Website Malware Scanner
Free online scanner that checks a website's public content for malicious scripts and threats.
Quttera Website Malware Scanner also scans a public URL remotely for hidden scripts and malicious media and produces a written report, but does not check blocklists or outdated software.
VirusTotal
Online service that checks a URL or file against many antivirus engines and URL scanners.
VirusTotal aggregates verdicts from many antivirus engines and URL scanners for a URL or file, though verdicts can disagree and submissions go to a third party.
urlquery
An online service that scans web pages for malware, suspicious elements and reputation problems.
urlquery scans a page for malware and suspicious elements and shows IP and hosting network, but recent submissions appear in a public list.
SiteGuarding Website Malware Scanner
An online scanner that checks uploaded PHP and JavaScript files for malware and backdoors.
SiteGuarding Website Malware Scanner checks uploaded PHP and JavaScript files and ZIP archives directly, seeing server-side code that remote scans miss, but the free tier allows 10 files per scan.
WPSec
An online scanner that checks WordPress sites for known vulnerabilities in core, plugins and themes.
WPSec checks WordPress core, plugins and themes against a vulnerability database with scheduled scans and alerts, but only works for WordPress sites.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Sucuri SiteCheck as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Google Safe Browsing Site Status
A lookup in Google's Transparency Report that shows whether Safe Browsing flags a site as unsafe.
Sucuri SiteCheck scans a site remotely for visible malware and outdated software as well as blocklisting, and flags missing security headers, while promoting paid Sucuri services.
Gridinsoft Website Reputation Checker
A free online checker that reports whether a URL or domain looks safe, suspicious or dangerous.
Sucuri SiteCheck scans a site remotely for visible malware, blocklisting and outdated software, and also flags missing security headers, while promoting paid Sucuri services.
Norton Safe Web
Free web service from Norton for looking up the safety reputation of a website.
Sucuri SiteCheck scans a site for visible malware, blocklisting and outdated software, and promotes paid Sucuri services alongside the free check.
URLVoid
Website reputation checker that looks up a domain against more than 30 blocklist services.
Sucuri SiteCheck adds a remote malware and outdated software scan to its blocklist check, and flags missing security headers, while promoting paid Sucuri services.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Security Headers
A web service that analyses a site's HTTP response headers and grades them from A+ to F.
HTTP Observatory
Mozilla's web tool that grades a site's HTTP security headers and gives fix recommendations.
urlscan.io
Sandbox for the web that loads a URL and records screenshots, requests and indicators.
