Anura vs Ciaro

Anura is ad fraud prevention software for identifying and filtering bots, malware, AI-assisted fraud, and human fraud from web assets. Its two detection products serve different traffic: Anura Script uses JavaScript integration to identify sophisticated invalid traffic, while Anura Direct uses a REST API for general invalid traffic. The dashboard offers traffic-quality insights, fraud-source drilldowns, configurable reports, and CSV or PDF exports. Anura IPDB is a locally deployed IP intelligence database with approximately 1 ms lookups, unlimited queries, and no usage-based fees. The product can validate leads and protect landing pages, registrations, logins, surveys, ping-post workflows, and eCommerce activity. It integrates with Google Tag Manager, WordPress, and other platforms, with custom integration development available when needed. Anura says it guarantees 99.999% accuracy when identifying bad visitors. It supports Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn, and offers automatic click blocking. The free trial lasts 15 days and requires no credit card; ongoing pricing is tailored to usage and available on request.

Ciaro detects invalid clicks and blocks IP addresses for paid advertising campaigns. It makes click decisions in under 50 ms using more than 30 signals, including IP reputation, device fingerprinting, behavior, VPN and proxy checks, and campaign context and history. It can automatically block IPs and sync exclusions to Google Ads; TikTok Ads is listed for detection only. The pricing page lists a fraud IP database of more than 30 million IPs, along with Google Ads refund claim reports, CSV exports, and advanced traffic reporting. Other listed connections include Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, AppsFlyer, WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, API access, and webhooks. Ciaro is available on the web and through an API. Protect costs $19 a month and includes 10,000 monthly clicks, one website, one team member, and 30 days of data retention. Optimize at $49 a month and Scale at $136 a month are marked coming soon. Ciaro states that data is encrypted at rest and in transit, sensitive data is masked before leaving the browser, and it is GDPR and CCPA compliant; SOC 2 Type II readiness and ISO 27001 are in progress, with no current SOC 2 attestation.