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J·BJon BishopIndependent growth marketer

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Marketing data sources for SaaS and developer founders

Find external data for market research, competitor analysis and content: data tools, public datasets, industry benchmarks, surveys and reports. Compare coverage, access and limitations.

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Internet infrastructurePublic

Terraform Registry

Map cloud/data infrastructure patterns, provider and module competition, schema surface area, and gaps in deployment or governance tooling. High fit for founders serving platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, data warehouses, Kubernetes, security, and infrastructure-as-code workflows.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Map cloud/data infrastructure patterns, provider and module competition, schema surface area, and gaps in deployment or governance tooling.

Infrastructure provider/module registry and APIPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureMixed

FCC National Broadband Map / Broadband Data Collection

Model connectivity-dependent developer products, edge/data workloads, underserved-market opportunity, cloud/remote-work feasibility, and geographic expansion. A rare primary infrastructure source for testing where developer/data services can realistically be delivered and where connectivity gaps create opportunities.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Model connectivity-dependent developer products, edge/data workloads, underserved-market opportunity, cloud/remote-work feasibility, and geographic expansion.

Connectivity infrastructure and availabilityPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureDownload

ITU DataHub / ICT Statistics

Benchmark country digital readiness, broadband/mobile affordability, connectivity, and ICT-market conditions when prioritizing international developer-tool or data-product expansion. Provides globally comparable ICT context that helps founders distinguish product demand from infrastructure and affordability constraints across markets.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Benchmark country digital readiness, broadband/mobile affordability, connectivity, and ICT-market conditions when prioritizing international developer-tool or data-product expansion.

International ICT and digital-development statisticsPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureMixed

Cloudflare Radar

Track regional and temporal signals for browsers, operating systems, protocols, Internet services, outages, and AI-related traffic. Helps developer and data-product founders size technical adoption and regional infrastructure signals without relying on self-reported marketing surveys.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Track regional and temporal signals for browsers, operating systems, protocols, Internet services, outages, and AI-related traffic.

Internet, technology, browser, and platform adoption dataPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureDownload

HTTP Archive

Measure real-world adoption of web frameworks, scripts, hosting patterns, APIs, and performance characteristics relevant to developer-facing products. A strong evidence source for founders building web tooling, developer experience products, performance tools, and data products for the public web.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Measure real-world adoption of web frameworks, scripts, hosting patterns, APIs, and performance characteristics relevant to developer-facing products.

Public web technology and performance datasetPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureApproval

Oracle Cloud Marketplace

Map competing infrastructure, database, AI, observability, and FinOps offerings; identify integration and channel opportunities for a developer-tool or data-product startup. Strong: the catalog is organized around cloud infrastructure, databases, AI, and FinOps, which are direct contexts for developer and data products.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Map competing infrastructure, database, AI, observability, and FinOps offerings; identify integration and channel opportunities for a developer-tool or data-product startup.

Cloud and data-product marketplacePrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureApproval

IBM Cloud Catalog

Research enterprise cloud-tool positioning and partner distribution; compare database, container, infrastructure, security, and observability solutions relevant to technical buyers. Strong: its categories explicitly include containers, databases, infrastructure, and observability, making it useful for developer-tool and data-product competitive research.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Research enterprise cloud-tool positioning and partner distribution; compare database, container, infrastructure, security, and observability solutions relevant to technical buyers.

Cloud platform catalogPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureAccount or API key

DigitalOcean Marketplace

Track which self-hostable developer tools, databases, AI runtimes, and infrastructure components can be deployed quickly by SMB and developer audiences; evaluate a possible distribution channel. Strong: one-click deployment and the documented app/image inventory are directly relevant to developer-tool onboarding and self-serve data-product distribution.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Track which self-hostable developer tools, databases, AI runtimes, and infrastructure components can be deployed quickly by SMB and developer audiences; evaluate a possible distribution channel.

Developer cloud application marketplacePrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureMixed

CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) List

Build vulnerability intelligence, dependency-risk views, security-content research, or alerting products by normalizing CVE identifiers, descriptions, affected products, and update history. Strong fit for developer-tool and data-product founders building software supply-chain, AppSec, compliance, or security-observability features.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Build vulnerability intelligence, dependency-risk views, security-content research, or alerting products by normalizing CVE identifiers, descriptions, affected products, and update history.

Vulnerability and security databasePrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructurePublic

Artifact Hub

Discover and benchmark cloud-native distribution channels and package categories (such as Helm charts, operators, plugins, policies, and tasks), including publisher and security metadata where available. Strong for founders of Kubernetes/platform engineering, DevOps, cloud-native security, and infrastructure marketplace products.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Discover and benchmark cloud-native distribution channels and package categories (such as Helm charts, operators, plugins, policies, and tasks), including publisher and security metadata where available.

Cloud-native artifact catalogPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureAccount or API key

RIPEstat

Build an IP/ASN intelligence feature that checks a customer's prefix routing state, DNS information, abuse contact and related network context before onboarding or during incident triage. SaaS founders and developer-tool teams needing machine-readable Internet infrastructure enrichment.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Build an IP/ASN intelligence feature that checks a customer's prefix routing state, DNS information, abuse contact and related network context before onboarding or during incident triage.

Internet routing, ASN, DNS and network measurement dataPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureMixed

CAIDA Data

Enrich customer IPs and autonomous systems with organization and topology context, or benchmark a network-monitoring product against CAIDA's measurement datasets. Infrastructure SaaS founders, network observability builders and data-product teams needing research-grade Internet measurements.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Enrich customer IPs and autonomous systems with organization and topology context, or benchmark a network-monitoring product against CAIDA's measurement datasets.

Internet topology, AS organizations, routing and measurement datasetsPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructurePublic

Certificate Transparency (CT) Logs

Monitor a company's domains and brand for newly issued certificates, identify unexpected subdomains or certificate issuance, and trigger security or customer-notification workflows. SaaS security founders, domain-monitoring products and developer tools that need near-real-time certificate visibility.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Monitor a company's domains and brand for newly issued certificates, identify unexpected subdomains or certificate issuance, and trigger security or customer-notification workflows.

TLS certificate issuance and domain-security observabilityPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureDownload

IANA Root Zone Database and RDAP Bootstrap Registry

Power domain and DNS products with authoritative TLD discovery, root-zone validation and routing of domain-registration lookups to the correct RDAP service. Domain/DNS SaaS founders, registrars, certificate tools and infrastructure developers needing standards-based authoritative registries.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Power domain and DNS products with authoritative TLD discovery, root-zone validation and routing of domain-registration lookups to the correct RDAP service.

Authoritative DNS root-zone, TLD and RDAP registry dataPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructurePublic API/toolkit

CAIDA BGPStream

Routing intelligence, outage analysis and network competitor monitoring

Coverage: Global Internet routing tables and collectors · Route announcement, withdrawal, prefix, ASN, collector and timestamp

BGP routing data/API/toolkitPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureFree limited / paid expanded

Censys Internet Map / Platform

internet exposure measurement, attack-surface inventory, TLS/certificate analysis, exposed-service and vulnerability research

Coverage: global public internet · host, service, certificate, web-property and software fields

internet-wide scan and structured asset datasetPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructurePublic web/API

Docker Hub official image pages and pull metrics

Container adoption, image benchmarking and infrastructure competitor research

Coverage: Global container ecosystem · Image, tag, digest and displayed pull counts

Container registry catalog/usage metricsPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructurePaid

Farsight DNSDB

historical DNS pivots, domain/IP co-occurrence, threat hunting and infrastructure change analysis

Coverage: global DNS observations · DNS RRset, resource record, first-seen/last-seen and bailiwick metadata

passive DNS database and APIPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureCommunity free / commercial

GreyNoise Intelligence

separating benign background scanning from targeted threats, triage, IP enrichment and threat hunting

Coverage: global IPv4/IPv6 scanning activity · IP, actor/behavior label, CVE, tool and observation metadata

IP reputation, internet-noise classification and threat-intelligence APIPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureOpen/free

Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit

quick ASN profiling, prefix inventory, peer/IXP inspection and routing research

Coverage: global autonomous systems and announced prefixes · ASN, prefix, peer, route, DNS and organization pages

public BGP/ASN/prefix/DNS lookup portalFree
Internet infrastructureFree Lite / paid

IP2Location.io API and Database

geographic traffic analysis, IP enrichment, fraud/security analytics and network segmentation

Coverage: global IPv4 and IPv6 · IP, country/region/city, coordinates, ISP, ASN and CIDR

IP geolocation and ASN database/APIPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureFree Lite / paid tiers

IPinfo API

IP-to-ASN/geography enrichment, hosting/VPN/proxy analysis, network mapping and geospatial aggregation

Coverage: global IPv4 and IPv6 · IP, ASN, prefix, country/region/city and network attributes

IP geolocation, ASN, privacy and network intelligence APIPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructurePublic web

Internet Society Pulse Internet Resilience Index

Country connectivity risk, infrastructure expansion and market comparison

Coverage: Country-level global coverage · Country, indicator, weighted score and trend

Composite public indicator datasetPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureAccount or API key

MaxMind GeoLite databases

Regionalization, fraud controls, network mapping and infrastructure analysis

Coverage: Global IPv4/IPv6 addresses · IP-to-country, city and ASN records

IP geolocation and ASN databasePrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructurePublic download

Our World in Data: Internet users grapher

Internet adoption, digital-market sizing and infrastructure benchmarking

Coverage: Global countries and regions · Country/year; regional aggregates

Published indicator dataset and visualizationPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureOpen/free

PeeringDB

peering analysis, network topology, IXP/facility inventories and interconnection research

Coverage: global networks, IXPs, facilities and campuses · network/ASN, exchange, facility, presence and connection objects

community-maintained interconnection registry and REST APIFree
Internet infrastructurePublic data + account/credits for collection

RIPE Atlas

Monitoring connectivity, latency, reachability, routing and regional network performance

Coverage: Global probes and anchors · Probe, anchor, measurement, target, protocol and time

Internet measurement network and APIPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureOpen/free

RouteViews BGP Data and API

routing-table monitoring, prefix origin analysis, hijack research and longitudinal Internet topology

Coverage: global routing system from distributed collectors · collector, ASN, prefix, RIB snapshot and route update

BGP collector archive and APIFree
Internet infrastructurePaid

SecurityTrails API

DNS history, subdomain discovery, infrastructure attribution and attack-surface research

Coverage: global domains, IPs and DNS records · domain, subdomain, DNS record, IP, organization and historical timestamp

DNS, WHOIS and infrastructure intelligence APIPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureFree limited / paid

Shodan Internet Intelligence Platform

exposed-device discovery, service/version prevalence, attack-surface monitoring and internet telemetry

Coverage: global public internet · IP/host, port, service, banner, DNS and event-feed records

internet-connected device search and telemetry APIPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureFree limited / paid

Socket Package Security

malicious package detection, dependency-risk monitoring, supply-chain attack research and package adoption safety

Coverage: global npm, PyPI, and other package ecosystems · package/version, dependency change, behavior signal and risk issue

open-source package behavior analysis and supply-chain risk intelligencePrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructureFree public / paid private

urlscan.io

phishing and malware triage, web-change monitoring, redirect analysis and searchable scan telemetry

Coverage: global websites and URLs · URL/scan, domain, IP, ASN, hash, DOM, requests and screenshots

automated URL/browser scan archive and APIPrice not confirmed
Internet infrastructurePublic data with account-based routes

Chrome UX Report (CrUX)

Benchmark public web performance and investigate technical quality signals for web products.

Coverage: Global Chrome user population; eligible URL and country coverage depends on sample thresholds · Monthly field metrics for eligible origins and URLs, including Core Web Vitals

Public real-user web performance datasetPrice not confirmed
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