No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is factually.co legit or a scam?
Factually.co is a new AI research companion with clean technical scans but mixed user reports on factual accuracy.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a personal research tool that uses AI to search and summarize information with citations. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned completely clean results with zero detections. The hosting IP shows minimal abuse history and the SSL certificate is valid. Visual analysis confirms a clean professional news-style layout without urgency tactics or suspicious elements. Some user complaints about bias and errors appear on review platforms, yet independent bias rating sources describe it as mostly factual.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
Clean, professional news-style layout with no visible scam indicators, urgency tactics, or suspicious elements.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for factually.co, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- factually.co is an AI-powered fact-checking and research tool launched November 2024 by a single independent developer.
- Media Bias Fact Check rates it Least Biased and Mostly Factual (Nov 2025).
- ScamAdviser gives it an average to good trust score and states it is not a scam (recent check).
- Trustpilot has one review (Apr 2026) criticizing bias and inaccuracies.
- Reddit thread (r/AskReddit) discusses reliability with mixed user reports of errors.
- Site uses LLM to generate queries, search web, and summarize with citations; no corporate backing, voluntary funding.
- No detected scam families, no brand references to major companies, no typosquat indicators.
- Trustpilotopen
"The site is not factual in the least. Out of many "comparisons" I saw, they were heavily biased towards one over the other and straight-up making stuff up."
- Redditopen
"I've only had 2 experiences with them, but both were incorrect. When i checked the sources, most of them seem to be just second-hand ..."
Our research found two complaints: a independent review aggregator review calling the comparisons biased and a Reddit thread where users reported incorrect results. Two positive sources exist, including a media bias rating that labels the site least biased and mostly factual, plus an independent review site stating it is not a scam.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://factually.co/
- 2403https://factually.co/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on factually.co and not a lookalike like f-actually.co.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on factually.co. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- factually.co passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 74/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. factually.co presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 50 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report factually.co as clean.
- No. factually.co is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- factually.co resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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