How CertiLayer stacks up.
A side-by-side look at friction, privacy, and pricing — against the CAPTCHA and bot-detection tools you're probably using today.
CertiLayer | reCAPTCHA Enterprise | hCaptcha | Cloudflare Turnstile | Arkose Labs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zero PII collected | |||||
| No visible challenge for users | |||||
| Passive / invisible by default | |||||
| Real-time trust score (not binary) | |||||
| Self-serve pricing under 100K sessions | |||||
| Open, documented ML pipeline | |||||
| Sub-50ms end-to-end latency |
Based on public documentation as of 2026. denotes partial or conditional support (e.g. a fallback visible challenge for a subset of traffic).
WHY IT MATTERS
The differences that actually affect conversion.
Nothing to click, nothing to see
Most "invisible" CAPTCHAs still fall back to a visible challenge for a slice of traffic. CertiLayer scores every session passively — there is no challenge state to fall back to.
Zero PII by architecture, not policy
CertiLayer's model inputs are purely behavioral — timing, movement, rhythm. There's no device fingerprint, IP graph, or identifier to later decide not to collect.
A score, not a gate
Binary pass/fail challenges throw away information. CertiLayer returns a continuous Human Confidence Score you can threshold however your risk model needs.
Priced for real traffic, not enterprise minimums
Several competitors are free below a volume threshold, then jump to opaque enterprise pricing. CertiLayer's tiers are public and predictable from $19/month.
Predictable pricing, published up front.
No enterprise sales call required to see a number. Plans start at $19/month for 100,000 sessions.