Today we're launching Edge Shield — free bot protection for any website, built into the Edge platform. It stops automated abuse at the front door without doing the one thing every CAPTCHA does: punishing your real visitors.

No puzzles. Ever.

Traditional CAPTCHAs make humans prove they're human — squinting at traffic lights, deciphering warped text, clicking fire hydrants. Shield inverts the model. Verification happens invisibly in the background, and every request receives a humanity score from 1 to 100. Genuine visitors sail through without seeing anything at all; only genuinely suspicious traffic is asked for a single click, and outright automation is stopped cold.

Your server sees the score on every verification, so you stay in control of the threshold — treat a checkout differently from a newsletter form, or a login differently from a comment box.

Privacy by architecture, not by policy

Shield doesn't set cookies, doesn't build a fingerprint database, and doesn't store per-visitor data. There's nothing to disclose in a consent banner because there's nothing collected to consent to. That's not a configuration option — it's how the system is built.

Ready for the agentic web

A growing share of legitimate traffic isn't a person in a browser — it's software acting on a person's behalf. Shield is the first bot protection designed for that reality. AI agents that cryptographically declare their identity using Web Bot Auth are recognised and verified, and you choose the policy per widget: allow, challenge, or block. Welcome the good automation, stop the bad, and never confuse the two.

Integration in five minutes

Add two lines to your page:

<script src="https://shield.edge.network/api.js" defer></script>
<div class="edge-shield" data-sitekey="es_your_sitekey"></div>

Then validate the token server-side with a single call to /siteverify. Tokens are single-use, so replayed submissions fail automatically. Three widget modes — managed, non-interactive, and fully invisible — cover everything from contact forms to API-driven flows, and migrating from Cloudflare Turnstile is a find-and-replace.

Everything else in the box

  • Analytics — challenge volume, solve rates, humanity scores, and blocked replays for every widget.
  • Shield Examiner — an AI review of your widget's traffic that flags bot pressure, replay abuse, and calibration issues, with specific recommended fixes.
  • Anomaly detection — volume spikes and score collapses are flagged automatically, and escalation tightens until the storm passes.
  • Manage it anywhere — the Edge control panel, the CLI (edge shield create), or the Agent API, where your AI agent can add bot protection to a form it's deploying in one call.

Free. Actually free.

Unlimited widgets, unlimited verifications, no credit card, no premium tier holding the real features hostage. Bot protection shouldn't be a luxury good — and on Edge, it isn't.

Create a free account to set up your first widget in minutes, try the live demo, or dive into the documentation to see how it fits your stack. Already running Turnstile? The migration guide has you covered.