IPQS alternative for developer-first fraud checks
Use RequestGuard when you want IP, email, domain, device, CAPTCHA, and user-risk checks in one developer-first decision API.
Many teams start with individual reputation checks: IP score here, email score there, domain data somewhere else. That works until the product needs a single answer.
RequestGuard is built around the decision your backend needs: allow, challenge, review, or block.
Why developers choose one decision API
Developer-first fraud checks should be easy to wire into product flows. The endpoint should accept the context you already have and return a response that can drive application behavior.
const assessment = await requestGuard.assess({
ip,
email,
domain,
userAgent,
event: "signup",
sessionId,
});What gets combined
RequestGuard can combine:
- IP reputation and connection risk.
- VPN, proxy, Tor, and datacenter signals.
- Email and domain risk.
- Device and session context.
- CAPTCHA fallback decisions.
- User and behavior metadata.
When IPQS may still fit
If your team wants a broad reputation vendor for many separate lookup categories, IPQS may fit your workflow.
If your team wants an EU-made, SDK-first decision layer that developers can add to signup, checkout, forms, and API access, RequestGuard is the sharper fit.
The point is not more lookup data. The point is a cleaner action at the moment abuse creates cost.