ShieldLabs vs SHIELD
Updated September 2026
Looking for a SHIELD 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. SHIELD (shield.com), a company separate from ShieldLabs, sells on an enterprise contract only and gives you a device ID and a device risk score, with rules you configure yourself.
How ShieldLabs compares to SHIELD
| Capability |  |  |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | ||
| Overall score | 9.7 out of 10 | 7.2 out of 10 (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Getting started | ||
| Integration time | About 5 minutes | Weeks to months (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Public pricing and self-serve | Public prices, start without a sales call | An enterprise contract only (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 | An enterprise contract only (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Documentation and SDKs | Public docs, client and server SDKs | Public docs, client and server SDKs (comparable) |
| API and webhooks | On every plan, including Free | An enterprise contract only (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Platform coverage | Web and mobile web | Web, plus native Android and iOS 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) |
| 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 | 20+ risk indicators across app and web (comparable) |
| 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 | Location spoofing and unauthorized locations, no local IP check (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Account clustering | Multi-accounting and account sharing, with a graph | Associations across devices, accounts, email addresses and IP addresses (comparable) |
| Multi-accounting detection | Ready-made, no rules to configure | Rules you configure yourself (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Account sharing detection | Ready-made, no rules to configure | Rules you configure yourself (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Account takeover detection | Ready-made, no rules to configure | Rules you configure yourself (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Impossible travel detection | Ready-made, no rules to configure | No ready detection, you build it yourself (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) |
| Decision and analytics | ||
| Risk signal scoring | Ready-made weights for every signal | A machine-learning black box, weights not published (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Why a visit was flagged | Every signal that fired, with its weight | The risk indicators that fired, without their weights (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Decision Risk | Trusted, Suspicious or Dangerous for visitors, users, devices and IPs | A numeric device score, with no named risk levels (ShieldLabs leads) |
| 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 unified dashboard with device, account, email and IP associations (comparable) |
| Latency and real-time decisioning | About 300 milliseconds | About 450 milliseconds (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Traffic-quality scoring | Ready-made, with the quality of every channel and campaign | Ad-fraud detection for paid campaigns, no traffic-quality score (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Traffic source | Channel and full UTM | No channel or UTM breakdown (ShieldLabs leads) |
| History API | On every plan, for every identification | Lookup by session ID (comparable) |
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | 5,000 identifications, one time | No free plan, on an enterprise contract only (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Entry price | From 99 USD a month, 25,000 identifications | An enterprise contract only (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Price at 150,000 identifications a month | 399 USD a month | An enterprise contract only (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Price at 500,000 identifications a month | 999 USD a month | An enterprise contract only (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Plans and support | ||
| Data retention | 90 days on every plan | No fixed period published (ShieldLabs leads) |
| API requests per second | From 5 to 15 RPS | No figure published (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% on Scale, self-serve | No SLA published, commercially reasonable efforts only (ShieldLabs leads) |
| Support | Chat and email on every plan, including Free | A web support form, no published SLA (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. With SHIELD you configure the rules yourself on top of its device score.
Enterprise-level functionality without enterprise pricing
Every plan carries the full feature set, Free included, and paid plans start at 99 USD a month for 25,000 identifications. SHIELD sells on an enterprise contract only, with no published prices.
Transparent scoring
Every risk signal carries a published weight, so every score can be traced to the signals behind it. SHIELD scores each device with machine learning and publishes no weights, a black box that can raise false positives you cannot explain.
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. SHIELD links devices, accounts, email addresses and IPs in its dashboard, with one numeric score per device and no channel or UTM breakdown.
Switch to a SHIELD alternative without a migration
Both install side by side without conflicting. Add ShieldLabs on the free tier alongside your current SHIELD 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 SHIELD 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 SHIELD flags.
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Move to ShieldLabs and prevent abuse of your product.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the best SHIELD 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. SHIELD (shield.com), a company separate from ShieldLabs, sells on an enterprise contract only and gives you a device ID and a device risk score, with rules you configure yourself.
- How is ShieldLabs different from SHIELD?
- Multi-accounting, account sharing, account takeover and impossible travel come ready, with Medium or High confidence and no rules to configure. With SHIELD you configure the rules yourself on top of its device score.
- How much does ShieldLabs cost compared to SHIELD?
- 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. SHIELD: An enterprise contract only at 150,000; An enterprise contract only at 500,000.
- Can ShieldLabs run alongside SHIELD?
- Both install side by side without conflicting. Add ShieldLabs on the free tier alongside your current SHIELD 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.