Predax's answer:

• All-in-one protection: VPN/proxy/Tor detection, risk scoring, geolocation, WAF, and community threat intelligence in a single API — competitors like IPQualityScore and MaxMind charge separately for each
• WordPress-native: Ready-made plugins for WordPress and WooCommerce with guided setup wizards. Competitors like Sift and IPinfo require custom development
• Price: Plans start at $9/month. Comparable coverage from IPQualityScore starts at $49/month, Sift at $500+/month
• No contracts or minimums: Pay monthly, cancel anytime. Scale up or down as your traffic changes
• Real-time data: Tor exit nodes refresh hourly, proxy lists every 15 minutes, VPN feeds daily. Many competitors update weekly or less

Predax's answer:

• WordPress & WooCommerce site owners losing ad revenue or suffering fraud from VPN/proxy traffic
• E-commerce developers building checkout fraud prevention into custom platforms
• Ad-tech companies needing to filter non-human and anonymised traffic to protect revenue
• SaaS platforms preventing abuse, trial fraud, and account takeover from masked IPs
• Security teams adding IP-level threat intelligence to their existing stack via API

Predax's answer:

• Backend API: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery
• Frontend: Next.js (React), TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
• Infrastructure: Docker, Caddy (reverse proxy), automated CI/CD
• Machine Learning: scikit-learn (GradientBoosting risk model trained on real threat data)
• Plugins: PHP (WordPress & WooCommerce native), JavaScript
• Data sources: Real-time feeds from Tor Project, public proxy lists, VPN provider APIs (NordVPN, Mullvad), cloud provider IP ranges (AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, Vultr), RIPE/BGP ASN data

Predax's answer:

IPSentry is used by WordPress site owners, WooCommerce stores, and developers across multiple countries. As a privacy-focused company, we don't publicly disclose customer names without their permission.

Predax's answer:

IPSentry started from a personal frustration. I was running content sites monetised with Google AdSense, and kept getting hammered by waves of VPN and proxy traffic. This non-genuine traffic was dragging down my overall RPM — advertisers don't pay premium rates when their ads are being served to masked, unverifiable visitors. My revenue was suffering and I had no visibility into what was hitting my sites.

I wanted control over my traffic. I wanted to see exactly who was visiting, filter out the junk, and make informed decisions about what to allow and what to block. I looked for a WordPress plugin that could do this — detect VPN and proxy visitors, flag them, let me decide what to do — and found nothing that actually worked. The few options that existed were either broken, absurdly expensive, or required wiring up an external API with custom code.

So I built my own. It started as a simple IP lookup tool, then grew into a full detection API with VPN, proxy, Tor, and datacenter identification. I added a WordPress plugin so any site owner could install it in one click and immediately see and control their traffic, then a WooCommerce plugin for fraud prevention at checkout.

The Community Threat Network came next — the idea that when one site blocks a bad actor, every other IPSentry user benefits from that intelligence. Today IPSentry protects sites across multiple countries with millions of IP lookups per month.

Predax's answer:

IPSentry combines real-time IP intelligence with community-powered threat detection — something no other provider offers at this price point.

• Community Threat Network: Every block reported by any IPSentry user strengthens protection for all users. When one site blocks a bad actor, every other site knows about it instantly
• Purpose-built WordPress & WooCommerce plugins with one-click install — no code required. Most competitors are API-only
• Transparent risk scoring: Every score comes with full provenance showing why an IP was flagged (VPN, Tor, proxy, datacenter, WAF attack, community reports), not just a black-box number
• Built-in WAF: SQL injection, XSS, path traversal, and scanner detection included — not a separate product or add-on
• Generous free tier: 1,000 lookups/month free, with paid plans starting at just £5/$7 per month