FraudGuard API Guide: Choose the Right API
Find the FraudGuard product or API for your use case, from IP checks and bot protection to investigations, cloud security, and threat feeds.
Want to learn more about ACE v1 and ACE v2? Compare the two engines.
Find your use case below, then follow the product or API link for setup instructions. Related endpoints and versions are grouped together. Check pricing for current availability and limits.
Adding IP checks to a new app? Start with ACE v2 IP Intelligence for explained allow, challenge, or block recommendations. On Starter, use IP Reputation v2 for core risk checks.
Check traffic and stop abuse
| I want to… | Product or API |
|---|---|
| Assess an IP during login, signup, or checkout | ACE v2 IP Intelligence |
| Estimate how an IP’s risk may change soon | ACE v2 IP Forecast |
| Use numbered reputation APIs or keep an existing response format | IP Reputation v1–v5 (ACE v1), including by-threat lookups |
| Check the IP reputation behind a hostname | Hostname Reputation |
| Get an IP’s location, ISP, and organization without a risk check | Geolookup |
| Verify a visitor is human with an interactive challenge | BotGuard |
| Spot a browser repeatedly switching source IPs | Rotating Proxy (RRP) Detection |
Add account context and your own rules
| I want to… | Product or API |
|---|---|
| Combine related login, signup, checkout, or bot events into one risk assessment | ACE Sessions |
| Record account access and review location or device changes | User History, including retrieval and listing |
| Maintain trusted IPs and known unwanted sources | Custom allowlists and blocklists |
| Apply country or regional access rules | Custom GeoBlock |
| Get rate-limit decisions for my app to enforce | Rate Limiting, including rules and analytics |
| Let users dispute an IP decision and review the outcome | IP Dispute Manager |
Investigate and monitor threats
| I want to… | Product or API |
|---|---|
| Inspect observed services, ports, fingerprints, and infrastructure history | Attacker Intelligence |
| Find related IPs by network, provider, country, threat, or risk | Advanced Threat Lookup |
| Explore nearby threats using geographic and network context | GeoThreat |
| Follow a watchlist of IPs and review their activity | ThreatWatch |
| Create or embed an interactive threat map for any IP address or hostname | ThreatMap |
| Embed a live map of my FraudGuard API activity in a website or dashboard | Live (Embeddable) Threat Map |
Enrich batches or bring data into your systems
| I want to… | Product or API |
|---|---|
| Get ACE v2 assessments for many IPs at once | ACE v2 Bulk IP Intelligence |
| Enrich batches using ACE v1 response formats | Bulk IP Lookup v1, v2, or v3 |
| Query downloaded threat data locally in a firewall, SIEM, or data pipeline | Offline Threat Database: ACE v1 data in SQLite or CSV |
| Import IP lists filtered by risk level or threat category | Raw IP Lists by Risk or by Threat |
| Ingest live honeypot attack events into my own analysis pipeline | Attack Stream |
Protect infrastructure and spot operational issues
| I want to… | Product |
|---|---|
| Restrict AWS API access to approved source networks | AccessGuard |
| Enrich AWS WAF logs and automate IP blocking workflows | WAFGuard |
| Detect suspicious AWS CloudTrail activity and possible key misuse | TrailGuard |
| Block risky outbound destinations during DNS resolution | DNS Shield |
| Find abuse patterns in web, API, or load balancer logs with AI assistance | LogGuard AI |
| Get alerts when unusually many users check my status page | StatusGuard |
Attack Stream, DNS Shield, and hosted LogGuard AI are scoped separately. Follow their product links to discuss access and deployment.
Test and manage your integration
| I want to… | API |
|---|---|
| Review my account’s recent IP lookups by risk or policy match | IP History |
| Review API usage and risk, threat, and geographic trends | API Analytics |
| Get a sample IP from FraudGuard’s dataset for troubleshooting | Random ACE IP |
Ready to connect? Use the integration essentials for credentials and your first request. Start by reviewing results against your own traffic before enabling enforcement.
Put the evidence to work
Turn an IP signal into a defensible decision.
Investigate a source with FraudGuard, then bring explainable allow, challenge, and block decisions into your own request path.
