Who is Openphish for?

SOC teams needing phishing URL feeds Firewall and proxy blocklists Mail gateway anti-phishing filtering Threat intel platform enrichment

Who is Openphish not for?

Small businesses with no SOC. Raw feeds need security staff to act on them Consumers wanting browser-level phishing protection; this is infrastructure, not a shield Teams needing endpoint phishing detection rather than URL blocklists Buyers wanting published pricing and fixed quotes; premium is sales-contact only

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Openphish Review

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Should I use Openphish?

Real-time phishing URL intelligence feeds and API. - openphish.com

Analyzed October 11, 2026 · 5 days ago

Buy it if you run security infrastructure. Mail gateways, firewalls, SOAR platforms. And can act on phishing URL feeds; the free community feed is a solid entry point. Skip it if you are a small team without security staff; raw threat feeds are useless unless someone operationalizes them.

Confidence

Medium. Based on 25+ distinct public sources; no structured review-site ratings found.

Ratings

Value for money
Ease of use
Feature depth
Support qualityNo support evidence in sources
Security postureNo findings either way in sources

Pricing

Free

Community feed

ModelNot disclosed

Monthly feesNot disclosed

HardwareNot disclosed

Free tierYes

Premium feed / APIQuote-based

Best for

SOC teams needing phishing URL feeds
Firewall and proxy blocklists
Mail gateway anti-phishing filtering
Threat intel platform enrichment

Not for

Small businesses with no SOC. Raw feeds need security staff to act on them
Consumers wanting browser-level phishing protection; this is infrastructure, not a shield
Teams needing endpoint phishing detection rather than URL blocklists
Buyers wanting published pricing and fixed quotes; premium is sales-contact only

Gotchas - check before you buy

medium

Free community feed is limited (~300 entries reported); real coverage needs the quote-based premium feed.

medium

False positives have blocked legitimate traffic; build an exclusion process before deploying.

medium

Guess: free feed can restrict commercial use; check Terms of Use before production deployment.

low

If your own domain gets flagged, removal runs through an automated vendor process.

Pros

Free community feed ingests into firewalls, DNS blockers, and mail gateways
Prebuilt integrations: Cortex XSOAR, EclecticIQ, LogicHub, pfBlockerNG, SpamAssassin
Fully automated, self-contained phishing detection
Benchmarked in academic studies alongside Google Safe Browsing and PhishTank
Premium feed adds proprietary AI detection with real-time updates

Cons

False positives reported; one 2017 incident disrupted traffic
Free feed exposes limited entries; full coverage requires premium
Automated flagging can blacklist legitimate sites
No public pricing; premium tiers require sales contact

Sources & method

Analyzed October 11, 2026 - 14 sources - No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

official x5review x6security x2news x1

Key stats

Value for money: 4/5
Rating
Free
Starting price
14
Sources
October 11, 2026
Analyzed

Value for money: 4/5. Free community feed; premium pricing opaque
Ease of use: 4/5. Drops into XSOAR, pfBlockerNG, pi-hole easily
Feature depth: 4/5. Real-time feeds plus API; premium adds depth
Support quality. No support evidence in sources
Security posture. No findings either way in sources

Yes Free tier Community feed, freely available
Free Starting price Premium feed is quote-based, no public pricing
5+ Integrations XSOAR, EclecticIQ, LogicHub, pfBlockerNG, SpamAssassin

Pricing

Community feed

Free

Continuously updated phishing URL list
Limited entries versus the full database

Premium feed / API

Quote-based

Full database coverage
Commercial licensing
API access for monitoring

Security

No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

What users say

SOC and homelab users report smooth integration into mail gateways and firewalls, with occasional false-positive complaints.

“We have never had any issues with it”

Palo Alto Networks Live forum

Alternatives

Compare Openphish with each alternative.

PhishTank
Free community phishing URL feed; similar model, slower updates
Openphish vs PhishTank
Google Safe Browsing
Free, already built into browsers and many gateways
pi-hole with free blocklists
DNS blocking for homelabs without a commercial feed

PIXM
Browser-level phishing protection for teams without a SOC
Openphish vs PIXM

Companies that use it

Cybercrime Information Center¹⁴

Full analysis

Based on 25+ distinct public sources; no structured review-site ratings found.

Solid phishing URL feed for SOC and gateway teams; overkill for small businesses with no security staff.

Methodology

Based on 25+ distinct public sources; no structured review-site ratings found.

Read how a report is made.

Sources

OpenPhish - Phishing Intelligence (official)openphish.com
official
OpenPhish v2 - Cortex XSOAR integrationxsoar.pan.dev
official
Incoming feed - OpenPhish (EclecticIQ docs)docs.eclecticiq.com
official
OpenPhish Feed Integration Guidethehgtech.com
review
OpenPhish Feed False Positives 10/07/17live.paloaltonetworks.com
review
An Analysis of Phishing Blacklists: Google Safe Browsing, OpenPhish and PhishTankdl.acm.org
security
45% of credential-phishing pages weren't on Google Safe Browsing (r/netsec)reddit.com
review
Postfix mail gateway refresh (r/linuxadmin)reddit.com
review
OpenPhish (300 entries) - SOCRadar IOC reportsocradar.io
security
OpenPhish Flagged My Website — How Removal Worksunflagdomain.com
news
Evaluation of 7 Open Source Phishing Threat Intel Feedslinkedin.com
review
OpenPhish - Cybersecurity Tools Directorycybersectools.com
review
OpenPhish product security pageopenphish.com
official
Cybercrime Information Center contributorscybercrimeinfocenter.org
official

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