AbuseIPDB Due Diligence

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United States · www.abuseipdb.com · 10 vendors

AbuseIPDB is a project dedicated to helping webmasters and system administrators report and identify IP addresses associated with malicious online activity. It serves as a central repository for reporting and checking abusive IPs, including those involved in spamming, hacking attempts, and DDoS attacks. The platform offers a free API to facilitate the reporting and verification of malicious IP addresses, aiming to enhance web safety.

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Last updated 2026-08-15 · revision 2

10 direct vendors, 125 subvendors

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Compliance

6 in-scope frameworks identified; showing 3.

ISO 27001 (source) — No public evidence

Evidence: https://www.abuseipdb.com/privacy, https://www.abuseipdb.com/about

CPRA — Evidence found

Evidence: https://www.abuseipdb.com/privacy

SOC 2 (source) — No public evidence

Evidence: https://www.abuseipdb.com/privacy, https://www.abuseipdb.com/legal

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Financial Resilience Score: 6/10

AbuseIPDB operates a structurally attractive freemium SaaS/API model with unusually favorable unit economics: the core dataset is contributed for free by a large volunteer community, and key data inputs (GeoIP from IPinfo, DNS/WHOIS from SecurityTrails) are provided as in-kind sponsorships, minimizing data-licensing costs. Combined with tiered paid subscriptions (Basic, Premium, Enterprise) and deep integrations with widely used security tools (Fail2Ban, CSF, Suricata, Splunk, Fortinet, OpenCTI, Polarity), the service enjoys sticky enterprise customers and strong brand recognition in the sysadmin/security community built over roughly a decade of operation. However, resilience is materially constrained by the very small scale of the operator. Marathon Studios, Inc. appears to be a small owner-operated Pennsylvania private firm with no disclosed outside venture funding, meaning limited capital to defend against far better-capitalized competitors such as GreyNoise, Recorded Future, Cisco Talos, Spamhaus, AlienVault OTX, and Cloudflare. Key-person and infrastructure concentration risks are significant, and there is meaningful regulatory exposure (GDPR, CCPA, defamation) from publishing reputational scores about identifiable IPs. Because neither AbuseIPDB LLC nor Marathon Studios, Inc. files with the SEC and no revenue, EBIT, equity, or headcount figures are disclosed, external stakeholders cannot verify profitability or balance-sheet strength. The lack of transparency itself is a resilience gap for prospective enterprise buyers. On balance, the business appears likely self-sustaining and profitable given its low cost structure, but scale is unverifiable.

Key strengths: Low-cost, scalable SaaS/API model with community-sourced core dataset, Sticky product via integrations with Fail2Ban, CSF, Suricata, Splunk, Fortinet, OpenCTI, Polarity, In-kind data sponsorships from IPinfo and SecurityTrails reduce data-licensing costs, Cross-brand diversification within Marathon Studios (TickCheck, Marathon Commerce), Strong brand recognition in sysadmin/security community built over 10+ years, Tiered paid subscription pricing (Basic, Premium, Enterprise)

Risk factors: Very small private operator with key-person and concentration risk, Free-tier cannibalization and competition from open threat-intel feeds (Spamhaus, AlienVault OTX, Cloudflare, GreyNoise), No visible outside venture funding limits ability to invest against better-capitalized competitors, Regulatory/liability exposure from GDPR, CCPA, and defamation risk in publishing IP abuse scores, Infrastructure concentration and small ops team create outage and data-integrity risk, Zero financial transparency creates data gap for enterprise buyers and partners

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