Enterprise vendors
Want $50K+/yr and a custom contract, and are built for companies far larger than you.
About ShieldLabs
Built for the teams enterprise fraud tools ignore
Our mission: give every team, not just the enterprise, an honest view of its traffic and the signals to fight abuse and fraud.
Most tools that identify visitors and fight abuse and fraud either start at $50,000 a year or charge a steep price for every visitor they check. A five-person team is not their customer. It's ours.
ShieldLabs gives you the same detection signals and deep traffic-quality analytics as enterprise tools, and then some, as an explainable risk score you control, so you can see the anonymous traffic in your visits and prevent abuse and fraud. All in about five minutes.
Why we exist
If you run a SaaS product, a marketplace, a fintech, or a crypto app, you have an abuse and fraud surface whether you can see it or not. Repeated signups draining free trials. The same person behind a dozen accounts. Promo and referral payouts claimed over and over. Account takeover at login and payment fraud at checkout. Paid traffic that turns out to be anonymous, and analytics quietly distorted by visitors hiding behind anonymizing tools.
ShieldLabs is a platform for measuring traffic quality and preventing abuse and fraud, built for teams from startups to mid-market. The catch is that the teams who most need one are usually the teams who can least afford one.
When a small team goes looking for a fix, they hit three walls
Do-it-yourself
An open-source fingerprinting library gives you a browser hash, plus three-to-six months of engineering to add IP intelligence, network checks, and ongoing maintenance.
The buying process
Drags on for weeks: a demo, several sales calls, and a long onboarding before you can run a single check.
We built the layer in between: the detection signals a serious vendor gives you, priced and packaged so a small team can actually buy and ship them today.
What we do
ShieldLabs collects 100+ raw signals on every visit, across the device, browser, operating system, IP, and network. From those signals, ShieldLabs:
Identifies
The device and visitor behind a visit, and recognizes them again across sessions, browsers, cleared cookies, and rotated IPs, even under a fresh email.
Reveals
Anonymized traffic through named anonymity signals: visits arriving through a VPN, a proxy, an anti-detect browser, a spoofed location, and more.
Scores
Every visit from 0 to 100 with a full breakdown of which signals fired and how much each weighed. Not a verdict. An explainable number you can act on.
Surfaces
Patterns in your traffic that may point to multi-accounting, account farms, or account takeover, graded by severity in your analytics dashboard.
Measures
Traffic quality by source, so you see the split across channels, referrers, and UTM, not one aggregate number.
Separates
Real-time analytics let your team tell anonymous and fraudulent traffic from real visitors and users at a glance.
You get honest data in one dashboard, plus an API and webhooks, so your team can prevent abuse and fraud with rules you write.
We score. Your team owns every decision, with the data to defend it.
What we stand for
The principles that guide our product, our team, and the calls we make.
Explainable beats black-box
Every risk score shows its work: which signals fired, what each one weighed. You should never have to second-guess a number you can't see inside.
You own the decision
We give you signals and a score. You set the thresholds and write the rules. Your risk appetite, not ours.
Your data stays yours
We don't pool your traffic into a shared network across customers. We collect technical signals and IP, not names, emails, or payment data.
Flat, public pricing
Four tiers, no enterprise gate, no sales call to see a number, no surprise module in the upsell tier.
Let the data make the case
We'd rather you install the free tier and watch the signals on your own traffic than sit through a demo. If the data isn't useful, no slide deck will fix that.
AI on the team
We lean on AI tools to build and ship faster, and to keep a small team punching above its size. They speed up the work; the judgment and the final call stay ours.
Where we are today
We're early. ShieldLabs is MVP-stage, shipping the web product first.
That shapes how we talk to you. We don't lead with an accuracy number you'd have to take on faith. We give you 5,000 free identifications, so you can watch the signals work against your own traffic and decide for yourself.
It also shapes what we build. ShieldLabs is new infrastructure aimed at 2026 problems, anti-detect browsers, anonymized traffic, and emerging AI-agent activity, rather than a decade-old engine carrying a decade of assumptions. Full feature set on every paid tier, from the first one.
And because we're early, the people using ShieldLabs now shape what comes next. Tell us what's missing.
Protect your revenue, whichever seat you're in
The same signals serve different jobs. Here's what ShieldLabs means depending on where you sit.
Founders and CEOs
Know how much of your growth is real before your board asks. Catch the abuse draining trials and promos, and forecast your bill on flat, public pricing instead of a custom quote.
Engineers and security reviewers
Signals and an explainable score, with your own rules on top. No black box, no model you can't inspect, no waiting on a vendor to tune it for you.
CTOs and engineering leads
A five-minute install, an API and webhooks, and the full feature set on the first paid tier. No DPA negotiation, no two-month rollout.
Growth and marketing
Stop paying to acquire anonymous and fraudulent traffic. See your real numbers, so CAC, LTV, and attribution actually mean something.
ShieldLabs is not the right fit if you need an enterprise contract, a black-box decision engine, or compliance certifications on day one. We would rather tell you that up front than sell you the wrong tool.
See it on your own traffic
The fastest way to understand ShieldLabs is to install it and watch the signals come in. It takes about five minutes and costs nothing to start.
Questions? Email us at [email protected].
Frequently asked questions
- Does ShieldLabs block fraud automatically?
- No. ShieldLabs returns a risk score with full details on which signals fired. Your code decides what to do with each score. Scoring instead of blocking is deliberate: it lets your team set thresholds that match your own risk appetite and keep every decision explainable, rather than handing it to a system you can't see inside.
- Is ShieldLabs a KYC or identity verification tool?
- No. ShieldLabs reads technical signals from the browser, device, and network. It does not collect names, government IDs, or personal documents. If you need identity verification or AML screening, a dedicated KYC provider is the right tool. ShieldLabs sits next to it as the fraud-signal layer.
- Is ShieldLabs SOC2 or GDPR certified?
- Not yet. Certifications are on our roadmap, not complete. ShieldLabs does not store personal data, no names, emails, or payment details, only technical signals and IP. If your compliance review requires SOC2 or ISO on day one, ShieldLabs isn't the right fit today.