Bot Management Stop scrapers, hoarders, and credential stuffers.
Not all traffic is human, and not all bots are welcome. Karbon fingerprints, scores, and challenges automated traffic — blocking scrapers and protecting your APIs against bot attacks while letting good bots and real users through.
Behavioral fingerprinting
TLS, header order, timing, and mouse/keystroke signals combine into a score that separates humans from headless automation.
Graduated challenges
Suspicious clients get friction — JS challenge, proof-of-work, CAPTCHA — while trusted traffic sails through untouched.
API abuse defense
Credential stuffing, token cracking, and scraping against your API are rate-shaped and blocked, not just logged.
Good-bot allowlist
Verified search crawlers and partners stay allowed by validated identity, not spoofable user-agent strings.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you tell good bots from bad ones?
- Karbon scores each client on dozens of behavioral and network signals rather than trusting the user-agent string. Verified crawlers are allowlisted by validated identity; everything else is judged on behavior.
- How do I secure my APIs against bot attacks?
- Combine Karbon's bot scoring with API rate limiting: automated clients hammering login or checkout endpoints get challenged or throttled before they can stuff credentials or hoard inventory. See our guide on securing APIs against bots in the blog.
- Will this block legitimate users?
- No. Challenges are graduated and reserved for clients that score as automated. Real users typically never see friction.