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hCaptcha
✓ verifiedFreemium
Privacy-focused CAPTCHA and bot/fraud-detection service, a drop-in reCAPTCHA alternative for websites and apps.
4.4M visits/mo
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Facia
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Enterprise biometric platform for liveness, deepfake detection and face matching in KYC and fraud-prevention flows.
95K visits/mo6.8K saves
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Higress
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI-native API gateway for routing, protecting and caching LLM/agent traffic, with a paid managed cloud.
29K visits/mo
Pricing
Basic: Free
Pro: $139/month billed monthly, $99/month billed yearly
Enterprise: Contact sales
Free trial available
Pay As You Go: $0.10/check (Quick Liveness)
Pay As You Go: $0.12/check (Detailed Liveness)
Pay As You Go: $0.40/check (Deepfake Detection)
Pay As You Go: $0.70/check (Document Verification)
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦AI bot detection
- ✦Transaction fraud protection
- ✦Account-takeover (ATO) defense
- ✦Pull-based SMS MFA
- ✦Private Learning ML risk models
- ✦Two-line reCAPTCHA migration
- ✦Hundreds of integrations
- ✦Active and passive liveness detection
- ✦Deepfake and AI-generated media detection
- ✦1:1 and 1:N face matching and search
- ✦Age estimation and document verification
- ✦iBeta Level 2 certified, low FAR/FRR
- ✦Lightweight mobile SDKs and REST APIs
- ✦Unified proxy and protocol conversion across 100+ LLMs
- ✦Model-level fallback and routing
- ✦Semantic and exact-match AI caching
- ✦Token tracking and quota controls
- ✦Content-safety and data-protection filtering
- ✦MCP service hosting and plugin marketplace
- ✦Open-Source AI Gateway
- ✦Multi-LLM Management & Cost Optimization
- ✦Efficient and Secure LLMs Invocation
- ✦Unified API Signature for LLMs
- ✦Load Balancer for seamless switching between LLMs
- ✦Fine-Grained Traffic Control for LLMs
- ✦LLM Quota Management
- ✦Real-time LLM Traffic Monitoring
- ✦Caching Strategies for AI in Production
- ✦Flexible Prompt Management
Use cases
- →Blocking bots and spam signups
- →Preventing account takeover
- →Reducing transaction and payment fraud
- →Stopping credential stuffing
- →Anti-spoofing liveness checks during KYC onboarding
- →Detecting deepfakes in live video calls
- →Step-up biometric authentication for risky actions
- →Centralizing access to multiple LLM providers
- →Building and governing AI agent/MCP services
- →Controlling token spend across teams
- →Adding caching and safety to LLM calls
- →Building API portals for secure sharing of internal APIs with partners.
- →Tracking API usage and driving API monetization.
- →Managing and securing API access in compliance with enterprise policies.
- →Connecting to multiple AI large models simultaneously.
- →Optimizing LLM costs and improving efficiency.
- →Protecting against LLM attacks and data leaks.
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