ShieldLabs vs Maskbreak
Updated September 2026
Looking for a Maskbreak alternative? ShieldLabs gives enterprise-level functionality without enterprise pricing: risk detection for every visitor, user, device and IP address, and ready-made detection of multi-accounting, account sharing, account takeover and impossible travel with no rules to configure, from 99 USD a month for 25,000 identifications. Maskbreak gives you a verdict per request and a linked-accounts count, with no risk level for visitors or devices, and you build account sharing, takeover and impossible travel detection yourself, free during its open beta.
How ShieldLabs compares to Maskbreak
| Capability |  |  |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | ||
| Overall score | 9.7 out of 10 | 7.3 out of 10 (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Getting started | ||
| Integration time | About 5 minutes | Hours to days (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Ease of use | The four high-risk events arrive finished, with nothing to set up | Rules you configure yourself (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Fit from startup to enterprise | Enterprise-level functionality on every plan, for businesses of all sizes | Free at any size, with enterprise paperwork on request (comparable) |
| Documentation and SDKs | Public docs, client and server SDKs | Public docs, client and server SDKs (comparable) |
| API and webhooks | On every plan, including Free | A public API and webhooks (comparable) |
| Platform coverage | Web and mobile web | Web and mobile web, no native mobile SDKs (comparable) |
| Platform flexibility | Ready-made detection, nothing to configure | Rules you configure yourself (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Detection | ||
| Identification accuracy | 99.9%, network and device intelligence | Device intelligence, with partial network coverage (ShieldLabs leads) |
| How the accuracy figure is checked | Published method: what is collected, how the score is built, 1,511 automated tests, audited on more than a million requests | Not published (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Risk signal detection accuracy | 99.9%, network and device intelligence | Device intelligence, with partial network coverage (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Bot and automation detection | Bots, automation and AI agents | Bots and automation, no AI agents (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Breadth of the signal set | 300+ risk signals | 15 reason codes (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Local IP detection | Ready-made, with its country | Not offered (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Geolocation accuracy | Location checked against the local IP and network characteristics, not the public IP alone | From the public IP (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Account clustering | Multi-accounting and account sharing, with a graph | No ready detection, you build it yourself (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Multi-accounting detection | Ready-made, no rules to configure | Rules you configure yourself (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Account sharing detection | Ready-made, no rules to configure | No ready detection, you build it yourself (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Account takeover detection | Ready-made, no rules to configure | No ready detection, you build it yourself (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Impossible travel detection | Ready-made, no rules to configure | No ready detection, you build it yourself (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Decision and analytics | ||
| Fit to the job | A finished verdict for each detection | An allow, review or block verdict on every request (comparable) |
| Risk signal scoring | Ready-made weights for every signal | A fixed weighted score, weights published (comparable) |
| Why a visit was flagged | Every signal that fired, with its weight | Reason codes and published weights (comparable) |
| Cost of a false positive | A ready verdict with every reason shown | A ready verdict with every reason shown (comparable) |
| Analytics a non-engineer can read | Traffic, risk and events readable without building anything | A console overview of evaluations, signals, geography and time of day (comparable) |
| Latency and real-time decisioning | About 300 milliseconds | About 500 milliseconds (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Decision Risk | Trusted, Suspicious or Dangerous for visitors, users, devices and IPs | No risk level for visitors, users or devices (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Traffic-quality scoring | Ready-made | Not offered (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Traffic source | Channel and full UTM | Not offered (ShieldLabs leads) |
| History API | On every plan, for every identification | No history API, an IP lookup only (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | 5,000 identifications, one time | Free during the open beta, 1,000 requests an hour (comparable) |
| Entry price | From 99 USD a month, 25,000 identifications | No paid plans, free during the open beta (comparable) |
| Price at 150,000 identifications a month | 399 USD a month | Free, provided no hour goes above 1,000 requests (comparable) |
| Price at 500,000 identifications a month | 999 USD a month | Free, provided no hour goes above 1,000 requests (comparable) |
| Public pricing and self-serve | Published plans from 25,000 to 500,000 identifications a month | A paid tier announced then withdrawn, and free access can change with 30 days notice (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Plans and support | ||
| Data retention | 90 days on every plan | For the life of the account, IP addresses hashed after 7 days (comparable) |
| API requests per second | From 5 to 15 RPS | 1,000 requests an hour per key (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% on Scale, self-serve | A 99.9% aim, an SLA on an enterprise contract only (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Support | Chat and email on every plan, including Free | Email only, same business day in UK hours (ShieldLabs leads) |
Every competitor cell was checked on their public website and docs, and in our own testing, in September 2026. How ShieldLabs measures 99.9% accuracy
Why choose ShieldLabs
Ready-made detection, no rules to configure
Multi-accounting, account sharing, account takeover and impossible travel come ready, with Medium or High confidence and no rules to configure. Maskbreak returns a linked-accounts count with the threshold left to you, and documents the other three as something to build on top of its raw signals.
Enterprise-level functionality without enterprise pricing
Every feature comes on every plan, from 99 USD a month for 25,000 identifications, and 5,000 identifications are free to start. Maskbreak is free during its open beta, caps every key at 1,000 requests an hour, and can change its free access with 30 days notice.
Chat and email support on every plan
Chat and email support come with every ShieldLabs plan, including Free. Maskbreak supports by email only, with a same-business-day aim in UK hours and no live chat with a person.
Risk analytics and investigation
Investigate visitors, devices and IPs, each rated Trusted, Suspicious or Dangerous, and see the overall risk across all your traffic and by source, channel and UTM. Maskbreak shows an overview and a list of its evaluations, with no traffic source, channel or campaign view.
Switch to a Maskbreak alternative without a migration
Both install side by side without conflicting. Add ShieldLabs on the free tier alongside your current Maskbreak setup, compare the data for a week, see the quality for yourself, and switch to ShieldLabs when you are ready.
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Install the ShieldLabs snippet next to Maskbreak in about five minutes.
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Collect 5,000 free identifications on the same traffic.
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Detect risky visitors and users, and compare them with what Maskbreak flags.
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Move to ShieldLabs and prevent abuse of your product.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the best Maskbreak alternative?
- ShieldLabs gives enterprise-level functionality without enterprise pricing: risk detection for every visitor, user, device and IP address, and ready-made detection of multi-accounting, account sharing, account takeover and impossible travel with no rules to configure, from 99 USD a month for 25,000 identifications. Maskbreak gives you a verdict per request and a linked-accounts count, with no risk level for visitors or devices, and you build account sharing, takeover and impossible travel detection yourself, free during its open beta.
- How is ShieldLabs different from Maskbreak?
- Multi-accounting, account sharing, account takeover and impossible travel come ready, with Medium or High confidence and no rules to configure. Maskbreak returns a linked-accounts count with the threshold left to you, and documents the other three as something to build on top of its raw signals.
- How much does ShieldLabs cost compared to Maskbreak?
- ShieldLabs costs 399 USD a month for 150,000 identifications, 999 USD a month for 500,000 identifications, with 5,000 identifications free to start. Maskbreak: Free, provided no hour goes above 1,000 requests at 150,000; Free, provided no hour goes above 1,000 requests at 500,000.
- Can ShieldLabs run alongside Maskbreak?
- Both install side by side without conflicting. Add ShieldLabs on the free tier alongside your current Maskbreak setup, compare the data for a week, see the quality for yourself, and switch to ShieldLabs when you are ready.
Ready to get started?
Start free with 5,000 identifications. Add the snippet once, and the analytics dashboard fills in from your first visitor.