Trusted alternative to Cloudflare Bot Management

Bot protection that ships in
5 minutes.

Block scrapers, spam bots, and low-quality traffic across sites and campaigns with server-side decisioning, a tracker SDK, and organization-scoped analytics. Self-hostable, with optional managed billing.

Self-hostable · Organization-first · Tenant-scoped analytics · Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/Sentry integration

No card required·Self-hostable·Organization-first·Observable by design·Evidence-driven releases

Block bots before they touch your database.

Real-time bot detection using IP reputation, ASN scoring, behavioral fingerprints and a live ML model retrained daily.

Route real users, filter the rest.

Rules, geo/device filters, ML score and reversible cloak modes — reverse, mirror, gateway, short-link. Pick one per site.

Own the stack.

Run the stack yourself or deploy it as a managed service. The same organization-first contracts, observability hooks, and release-evidence requirements apply in either model.

Block bots. Filter traffic. Protect revenue.

A complete bot detection, traffic routing, analytics, and operations stack for organization-owned sites — deployable self-hosted or as a managed service.

Block bots

ASN + IP reputation + JA4 fingerprinting stop scrapers and headless browsers at the edge.

Anti bot filter for forums

Kill signup spam before it hits your database. Works with WordPress, Discourse and custom stacks.

Affiliate link cloaking

Hide destinations from crawlers, keep Google-safe versions live. Reverse, mirror, gateway and short-link modes.

Bot detection API

POST an IP + UA, get a verdict in under 20 ms. Live ML score, ASN reputation and reason codes.

Organization analytics

See visitor, ASN, verdict, attribution, and reason data within the organization/site boundary, with rollups designed for fast dashboard reads.

1-line install

Drop in a JS snippet, the PHP SDK or the WordPress plugin. No DNS changes required.

Safe pages, on demand

Generate a Google-safe version of any landing page in one click, with PHP / JS / HTML export.

Organization-first workspaces

Separate organizations, members, sites, capabilities, guest analytics tokens, tickets, and API access without using a user ID as the tenant boundary.

Self-host or managed

Ship on a $10 VPS with Docker Compose, or use our cloud. Same code, same features.

ShieldGate vs Cloudflare Bot Management

A fair, side-by-side comparison for teams evaluating both.

ShieldGateCloudflare BM
Starting priceFree$200/mo enterprise contact
Self-hostable
Crypto billing (ETH via Bitcart)
Custom cloak modes✅ 4 modes
Data leaves your server❌ (self-host)
ML score APIEnterprise only

Made for the way you actually work

Whatever you sell or share online, ShieldGate quietly protects the income, the time and the reputation behind it.

Marketers & advertisers

Stop watching your ad spend disappear into fake clicks. Get real eyeballs on every campaign.

Online shops & creators

Protect your prices, your stock and your offers — and give every real shopper a smooth ride.

SaaS & startup founders

Keep abusers and scrapers out of your app, so your team can focus on building, not firefighting.

Publishers & bloggers

Your words deserve real readers. Stop AI scrapers and fraud farms stealing your hard work.

Communities & forums

Stop the spam waves before they touch your members. Keep the conversation human.

Agencies

Look after every client from one clean dashboard. Less stress, happier clients, better margins.

Live in the time it takes to make coffee

No servers to set up. No new tools to learn. Just three simple steps and you're done.

1

Tell us your website

Add your site in the dashboard and pick a ready-made protection level. The setup flow is designed to be quick; production approval still requires the applicable database, backup, regional, monitoring, and deployment evidence gates.

2

Add one tiny snippet

Paste a single line into your site, install our WordPress plugin, or send the link to your developer.

3

Operate with evidence

See tenant-scoped traffic, decisions, analytics, alerts, and ticket activity in the dashboard. Broad-traffic production approval remains evidence-gated.

Honest pricing. Pay how you like.

Start with the available plan and add organization members, sites, analytics access, and operational controls as your deployment matures. Review the plan terms before enabling production traffic.

  • Protect as many sites as you need
  • Friendly support that actually replies
  • Works with WordPress out of the box
  • A clean safe page in one click
  • Bring your whole team along
  • Live dashboards you can check from anywhere

Frequently asked questions

What is link cloaking in affiliate marketing?

Link cloaking hides the true destination of an affiliate URL from crawlers and ad reviewers, while sending real buyers to the offer. ShieldGate does it in four reversible modes — reverse, mirror, gateway and short-link — so you keep a Google-safe version live at the same time.

How do I cloak affiliate links without hurting SEO?

Serve a clean, indexable safe page to crawlers and reviewers, and route verified human traffic to the money page. ShieldGate's ML score + ASN rules make that split automatic, so your organic rankings stay intact.

How is this different from Cloudflare's bot protection?

ShieldGate emphasizes deployable organization boundaries, self-hosted observability, explicit API contracts, and evidence-driven operations. Compare actual capabilities and deployment responsibilities rather than assuming a feature is production-proven from a local demo.

Can I self-host ShieldGate?

The repository includes self-hosting and monitoring configuration, but production operation requires applying migrations, configuring secrets, validating backups and regional controls, and completing the release-evidence gates. Hardware sizing depends on traffic and workload.

Does ShieldGate work with WordPress?

Yes — install the official WordPress plugin, paste your site key and every request is scored automatically. No theme edits, no DNS changes, no htaccess hacks.

How do I pay?

Card or ETH via Bitcart. No long contracts, no KYC on our end, cancel from the dashboard in one click.

The free guide to protecting your website

A short, plain-English PDF on how to spot fake traffic, save your ad budget and keep real customers happy. Sent straight to your inbox — never shared, never spammed.

You've done the hard part. Let us protect it.

Thousands of business owners sleep better knowing ShieldGate has their back. Tonight, you can too.