Security · head-to-head

PhishStats vs UK Police

PhishStats

PhishStats crowdsources and republishes a running feed of phishing URLs, screenshots, and detection metadata, giving anyone a free real-time phishing blocklist to query or download. The REST API — now served from api.phishstats.info after moving off its old port-based endpoint — supports complex filter queries against the phishing database and returns JSON records ready to stream into an existing security stack. Anonymous lookups are capped at 50 requests/day per IP; a free registered key raises that to 150/day, with paid tiers for higher volume.

UK Police

The UK Police API publishes crime, stop-and-search, and neighbourhood-policing data reported by the 43 territorial forces of England and Wales, going back to December 2010 for street-level crime. It's a keyless JSON REST API -- force listings, neighbourhood team info, individual crime and outcome records, geo-radius crime queries -- released under the Open Government Licence, so results can be reused (including commercially) with attribution. Anonymous requests are capped at 15 per second with a burst of 30 before a 429 kicks in, comfortably enough for the dashboards and research tools that already build on it.

PhishStatsUK Police
AuthenticationNoneNone
Pricingfreemiumfree
FormatsJSONJSON
CORSnoyes
HTTPSYesYes

UK Police supports CORS, while PhishStats doesn't — pick UK Police for direct browser calls.

More comparisons