Best Free OSINT Dashboards in 2026

Until recently, a multi‑domain common operating picture — aircraft, ships, satellites, conflict events and open source reporting fused onto one map — was something you bought from Palantir, Janes or BAE for six figures a year. In 2026 there are at least five credible free alternatives, all open source, all runnable today.

They are not interchangeable. The single most important question is what are you allowed to run? Three of the five require you to stand up a Node or Python server. If you work on a locked‑down laptop, in a SCIF‑adjacent environment, on a corporate network without npm access, or you simply want to read every line of code before you trust it, that constraint decides the matter for you.

Feature comparison matrix

Compiled from public repositories and project documentation, August 2026. Figures move fast — verify against the upstream repo before relying on them.

World Monitor — the broadest coverage and the biggest community

World Monitor started in January 2026 as a weekend project by Elie Habib, co‑founder of Anghami, and became one of the most starred open source OSINT repositories on GitHub. It aggregates 500+ news feeds, 65+ external data sources and 50+ map layers onto an interactive 3D WebGL globe: military flights, AIS ship movements, earthquakes, protests, power outages, prediction markets and commodity prices.

ShadowBroker — the deepest analyst toolkit

ShadowBroker is a multi‑domain dashboard with 40+ toggleable layers built on Next.js, MapLibre GL and a FastAPI/Python backend. Beyond tracking, it ships analyst tooling most of the field does not have: SAR ground‑change detection, Telegram OSINT with geoparsed public channel previews, supply‑chain risk overlays, malware/C2 and CISA KEV feeds, and a server‑side recon suite (DNS, WHOIS, BGP, IP sweep, Shodan) proxied through the backend with SSRF guards so queries never leave the browser directly.

OSIRIS — the 3D globe and browser-based recon

OSIRIS markets itself as "the open source Palantir alternative". It tracks 10,000+ aircraft and 2,000 satellites plus worldwide CCTV feeds on a 3D globe, with 20+ live data streams covering earthquakes, wildfires, nuclear facilities, cyber threats and conflicts, and runs Nmap scans, DNS lookups, WHOIS queries, SSL certificate analysis and threat intelligence from the browser.

IRONSIGHT — the focused regional option

IRONSIGHT is a real‑time OSINT command centre built on Next.js and TypeScript, monitoring the Middle East across 50+ live sources: news, Telegram, military aircraft and naval tracking, missile alerts, prediction and defense markets. No API keys, free.

OpenWar Intelligence — the only one that is a single file

We built OpenWar Intelligence around a constraint the others do not accept: the entire application is one HTML file of about 266 KB. Vanilla JavaScript, inline CSS and SVG, Leaflet for mapping. No webpack, no React, no npm install, no backend, no database, no API keys, no account.

That decision costs us things. Our feed count is lower than World Monitor's. We have no recon toolkit and no Telegram ingestion. Our community is a fraction of theirs. In exchange it buys four properties none of the others have:

• Zero attack surface — there is no server to compromise, no database to leak, no dependency tree to poison.
• Air‑gap compatible — the code loads and runs from an isolated machine and degrades gracefully to simulated data when feeds are unreachable.
• Full auditability — roughly 4,400 readable lines. An analyst can verify what the tool does before trusting its output. With a transitive npm tree, nobody can.
• MIT license — fork it, embed it in a commercial product, ship it inside a classified network. No copyleft obligation.

On coverage we track 117+ military aircraft across 27 nations, 49+ naval vessels including carriers and submarines, 15+ reconnaissance satellites and 12 active conflict zones, across 13 intelligence modules. The differentiators that are genuinely rare in this field are the nuclear domain monitor (SSBN patrol zones, ICBM silos, C3 nodes and treaty compliance for 9 nuclear‑armed states), the SIGINT/ELINT layer (29 A2/AD systems, 7 GPS jamming zones, 9 frequency bands) and a pure JavaScript neural network (12‑24‑1, trained on 37 historical conflict events) that retrains every 60 seconds and outputs escalation probabilities at 1h to 24h horizons.

How to choose in 60 seconds

• You cannot install anything → OpenWar Intelligence. It is the only single‑file option.
• You want the most signals on one map → World Monitor.
• You are an analyst who needs to pivot and enrich → ShadowBroker.
• You want maximum tracking volume and a 3D globe → OSIRIS.
• Your theatre is the Middle East → IRONSIGHT.
• You are shipping a commercial or government derivative → check licenses first: MIT (OpenWar) is permissive, AGPL‑3.0 (World Monitor) is not.

Frequently asked questions

There is no single winner — it depends on your constraint. World Monitor has the widest coverage and largest community, ShadowBroker the deepest analyst tooling, OSIRIS the highest tracking volume, IRONSIGHT the best regional focus. OpenWar Intelligence is the only one that runs as a single HTML file with no server, no build step and no API keys.

OpenWar Intelligence. It is one self‑contained HTML file you open directly in a browser. World Monitor, ShadowBroker and IRONSIGHT all require npm and a running server; ShadowBroker additionally needs a Python backend.

Several projects claim the label, notably OSIRIS and World Monitor. None replicate Palantir's data engineering platform. What they do replicate — and do well — is the multi‑domain common operating picture, at zero cost.

Only partially: every one of them needs internet access for live feeds. But OpenWar Intelligence is the only one whose application code runs entirely from a local file with no backend, so it can be loaded and audited on an isolated machine and falls back to simulated data when feeds are unreachable.

OpenWar Intelligence is MIT — commercial use, modification and redistribution permitted without copyleft. World Monitor is AGPL‑3.0‑only, which requires network‑served derivatives to publish source. Always verify the license of the specific fork you download.