generated: '2026-09-04'
method: searched
source: https://shieldlabs.ai/pricing
docs: https://docs.shieldlabs.ai/billing
rechecked: '2026-09-04'
note: >-
  Public, self-serve pricing with no sales gate. Billing is per identification (one visitor check),
  not per seat or per monthly active user. Both a monthly and a yearly rate are published; yearly
  saves 20%. Two price sets appear across the provider's own surfaces: the pricing page slider shows
  the yearly-billed monthly figure ($79 / $319 / $799 with the yearly per-identification rate) while
  the feature-comparison table and the site llms.txt show the monthly-billed rate ($99 / $399 / $999
  at $0.00396 / $0.00266 / $0.00199). Both are recorded below rather than picking one.

  Re-read 2026-09-04. Prices and included quotas are unchanged, but the Billing page now publishes
  three things it did not before, all of which are plan-scoped LIMITS rather than prices and all of
  which are recorded per tier below: how many domains a plan may keep active (1 / 1 / 3 / 5), the
  per-domain ingest ceiling on the gateway (5 / 5 / 10 / 15 requests per second), and a middle
  billing frequency — quarterly, at 10% off, between the monthly and yearly rates already recorded.
  Two facts were CORRECTED against the provider's own current documentation: the Custom-volume
  threshold is published as "above 1M" identifications per month, not above the Scale tier's 500,000;
  and Management API History lookups do NOT bill per returned record. The previous metering note said
  they did, which the provider now contradicts in both its billing page ("Free: history & profile")
  and its OpenAPI ("Does not consume request balance").
currency: USD
billing_unit: identification (one visitor check)
plan_count: 4
plans:
- name: Free
  price: 0
  currency: USD
  period: one-time
  included_quota: 5000 identifications (one-time, not monthly)
  overage: not available
  credit_card_required: false
  limits:
    data_retention: 12 months
    uptime_sla: null
    active_domains: 1
    ingest_rps_per_domain: 5
  features_note: Identical detection stack to the paid tiers, capped at 5,000 one-time identifications.
- name: Starter
  price_monthly_billed_monthly: 99
  price_monthly_billed_yearly: 79
  currency: USD
  period: month
  included_quota: 25000 identifications / month
  rate_per_identification_monthly: 0.00396
  rate_per_identification_yearly: 0.00317
  overage: billed at the plan rate after the month closes
  limits:
    data_retention: 12 months
    uptime_sla: null
    active_domains: 1
    ingest_rps_per_domain: 5
  yearly_saving: 238
- name: Growth
  price_monthly_billed_monthly: 399
  price_monthly_billed_yearly: 319
  currency: USD
  period: month
  included_quota: 150000 identifications / month
  rate_per_identification_monthly: 0.00266
  rate_per_identification_yearly: 0.00213
  overage: billed at the plan rate after the month closes
  limits:
    data_retention: 12 months
    uptime_sla: null
    active_domains: 3
    ingest_rps_per_domain: 10
  yearly_saving: 958
  marketing_label: Most Popular
- name: Scale
  price_monthly_billed_monthly: 999
  price_monthly_billed_yearly: 799
  currency: USD
  period: month
  included_quota: 500000 identifications / month
  rate_per_identification_monthly: 0.00199
  rate_per_identification_yearly: 0.00159
  overage: billed at the plan rate after the month closes
  limits:
    data_retention: 12 months
    uptime_sla: 99.9%
    active_domains: 5
    ingest_rps_per_domain: 15
  yearly_saving: 2398
custom:
  name: Custom volume
  threshold: above 1,000,000 identifications / month
  price: contact us
  rate_per_1000: custom
  process: contact support for a committed-volume quote
  source: https://docs.shieldlabs.ai/billing
  note: >-
    The only contact-sales path; every published tier is self-serve. The threshold is published as
    "Above 1M" on the Billing page, which leaves the band between Scale's 500,000 and 1,000,000
    undefined in the provider's own table — recorded as published rather than reconciled.
billing_frequency:
- frequency: monthly
  discount: 0
- frequency: quarterly
  discount: 0.10
- frequency: yearly
  discount: 0.20
changeable: any time under Settings > Plans & Requests in the dashboard
metering:
  billable:
  - Each scored identification is one request. Its score, signals and webhook come with it.
  free:
  - Webhook deliveries.
  - Dashboard viewing, every chart and breakdown.
  - CSV and JSON exports.
  - Management API GET /v1/profile (profile and balance).
  - History API reads on account.shieldlabs.ai.
  - Management API GET /v1/history (deprecated path) — does not consume request balance.
  - Requests refused during a domain freeze are not billed.
  corrections:
  - field: billable
    was: >-
      A Management API History lookup on api.shieldlabs.ai bills one request per returned record,
      with a minimum of one.
    now: Not billed at all.
    evidence: >-
      https://docs.shieldlabs.ai/billing ("Free: history & profile"), the operation description in
      openapi/_original/shieldlabs-openapi.yaml ("Does not consume request balance"), and the
      provider's own DRIFT.md ("do not document per-row billing (code does not debit)").
    corrected: '2026-09-04'