Best Honeypot Software in 2026

OpenCanary suits teams that want a self-hosted decoy for detecting activity on non-public networks.

Beelzebub

Beelzebub suits security teams that want decoy sessions investigated and documented, with events sent to their existing integrations.

Cowrie

Cowrie suits security researchers, CERTs and defenders who want to observe SSH and Telnet attacks in a self-hosted honeypot.

DentiGrid

It suits MSSPs needing isolated tenant views and enterprise SOC teams deploying decoys across managed or self-hosted environments.

Dionaea suits security teams or researchers who can deploy and manage a self-hosted Linux honeypot.

Endlessh suits administrators who want to keep unwanted SSH clients occupied on a self-hosted Linux system.

Honeyd suits users building host-based or network-based virtual honeypots, virtual honeynets or network monitoring setups.

Honeytrap suits teams operating self-managed Linux honeypots that need centralized agent configuration or multiple interaction levels.

It suits security teams needing a Windows honeypot with broad service emulation, event integrations, and attack reporting.

CounterCraft The Platform

It suits enterprise organizations in government, financial services, healthcare, telecoms, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure.

Heralding suits users who want a self-hosted network decoy to collect credentials and record session details.

MedPot suits people who need to deploy an HL7/FHIR honeypot on a Linux host.

Thinkst Canary

It suits organizations seeking network decoys, credential lures, cloud decoys, and multi-layer intrusion detection.

It suits developers, ICS security researchers, and honeypot operators investigating industrial-control-system threats.

T-Pot suits users who can self-host and manage the stated hardware and network requirements.

ADBHoney suits security investigators examining activity against exposed Android Debug Bridge services.

Mailoney suits security teams seeking to capture SMTP access and credential-harvesting attempts in a self-hosted environment.