Solution comparison

Compare application security solutions by the job they do

IP data, fingerprints, bot tools and WAFs solve different parts of the problem. This guide shows what each approach handles, what it leaves with your team, and where Peakhour fits.

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Peakhour request-path board showing live request signals, a policy decision, an action, and a retained evidence record.

Buying guide

What are you actually buying?

Each category can be useful. The practical question is where its output enters the request path, who turns it into policy, and what your team can inspect afterwards.

IP intelligence and proxy data

What it provides

When purchased as a raw IP feed, it adds reputation, network, location, or proxy context to a request.

What remains with your team

Your application or another control still needs to combine that signal, choose an action, and retain the decision record.

Where Peakhour differs

Peakhour evaluates IP and residential proxy context beside route, account, browser, rate, API, and other request signals, then keeps the selected policy action with its evidence.

Choose this solution when

Your team needs enrichment data for an established decision system.

Browser or device fingerprinting

What it provides

When deployed as browser-only recognition, it can distinguish returning devices and flag browser-side changes.

What remains with your team

Direct API traffic and non-browser clients need another protection boundary; policy and response ownership still sit elsewhere.

Where Peakhour differs

Peakhour treats browser evidence as one input to policy across web and API traffic, rather than as the only protection boundary.

Choose this solution when

You have a browser-led flow where browser or device recognition is the primary decision input.

Standalone bot and fraud products

What it provides

When deployed as a specialist decision product, it can focus deeply on a defined abuse problem and its models.

What remains with your team

Integration, action placement, route context, and operational evidence still depend on the surrounding stack.

Where Peakhour differs

Peakhour connects bot and fraud signals to route-aware policy, request-path actions, and retained evidence in the same operating path.

Choose this solution when

Your team has a narrow abuse problem and the capacity to assemble the wider control path.

CDN and WAF platforms

What it provides

When used as the edge enforcement layer without application or account history, it can apply network and application policy before origin.

What remains with your team

Risk decisions may still need richer account, credential, route, browser, or event context than the edge receives.

Where Peakhour differs

Peakhour can operate as the edge or beside an existing edge while combining request intelligence, policy actions, and reviewable decision evidence.

Choose this solution when

Your team is primarily standardising delivery, caching, and perimeter application controls.

Peakhour request-path platform

What it provides

Combines request signals, route and account context, policy actions, and retained evidence across web and API traffic.

What remains with your team

Policy still needs owners, monitor-to-enforce tuning, and route-specific judgement. No platform removes that operating work.

Where Peakhour differs

Signals, policy, actions, and retained evidence share one governed request path and one decision vocabulary.

Choose this solution when

Your team needs live enforcement, reviewable records, and consistent decisions across a mixed stack.

Request decision

A request needs a decision, not another disconnected score

Peakhour evaluates IP and residential proxy signals beside network and browser fingerprints, behaviour, credentials, route, account, rate, API, WAAP, and DDoS context. Browser evidence can add context; it is not the only protection boundary for direct API traffic.

Policy can allow, log, rate limit, challenge, or block. The resulting dashboard, logs, and event evidence keep the signal, action, and operating context available for review.

ObserveSignals arrive with the request.
DecideRoute and account context shape policy.
ActThe selected action runs before origin.
ProveEvidence remains available for review.

Fit guide

Choose for the operating model you have

A specialist may be the better fit

  • You only need a raw data feed to enrich an existing decision service.
  • You only need browser or device recognition in a browser-led flow.
  • You already have the integration and operating capacity to assemble signals, actions, and records yourself.

Peakhour is the better fit when

  • Web and API enforcement need the same request decision path.
  • Combined evidence and consistent actions matter more than another isolated score.
  • Security and platform teams need reviewable records while they coexist with, or consolidate, an existing edge.

Keep your edge, or make Peakhour the edge

Choose the deployment mode that matches the contracts, traffic path, and operating ownership you have today. Both modes keep Peakhour decisions and evidence on the request path.

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Full delivery layer

Peakhour Edge

Route application traffic through Peakhour Edge when delivery, WAAP, bot controls, rate policy, and retained evidence should share one governed request path.

WAAP Bot decisions Rate policy Traffic routing Logs
Keep the current delivery layer

Existing Edge + Peakhour

Keep the existing edge when its delivery role or contract remains in place, while Peakhour adds request intelligence, policy decisions, and reviewable evidence beside it.

Request intelligence Policy actions API context Decision records Observability
Choose placement deliberately Use the delivery path and operating model that make policy ownership clear.
Retain one decision record Keep actions and the evidence behind them reviewable across either deployment mode.

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Bring the stack you have. We’ll map the decisions it still has to make.

Start with the request routes, signals, controls, and review obligations you already own. We will make the remaining decisions visible.

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