“What I love is how quietly it works.”
“Catches the junk quietly.”
“ActiveLayer fixed that. No puzzles.”
Automatically Block Spam Without CAPTCHA
CAPTCHAs make real visitors work to reach you. ActiveLayer checks spam without showing them a puzzle.
One Dashboard. Every Client Site. Zero Spam.
Manage spam protection across all your sites from a single dashboard. ActiveLayer gives agencies and teams centralized visibility with client-level reporting, team member access, and unlimited sites on every plan. No more per-site solutions that don’t scale.
- Manage client sites under one ActiveLayer account
- Create a separate project and API key for each site
- See total usage and checks in the ActiveLayer app
- Pro tier: 100,000 checks/month at $65/mo. Enterprise plans available for higher volume.
Install the Plugin. Enable Per Form. Done.
Install the WordPress plugin, connect your API key, and supported forms are protected by default. You can exclude individual forms in their settings. For other stacks, use the REST API.
- One-click install from the WordPress plugin directory
- Enable or disable protection per form with a checkbox
- Native WPForms integration built by the same team
- Protects WordPress comment forms automatically
- Visitors can submit forms without solving a CAPTCHA. The integration sends the submission to ActiveLayer for a spam verdict.
Reliable and Fast Spam Protection API for your Project
Add ActiveLayer to Express, Next.js, Laravel, or any framework with a single REST call. Send content, get back a verdict with confidence score, detection signals, and response time in milliseconds. No SDK required. Just HTTP.
- Clean REST API with copy-paste examples for Node.js, PHP, Python, and Laravel
- Millisecond response times. Faster than your database query.
- Full detection transparency: confidence scores, detection signals, detection IDs for audit trails
- Unlimited sites on every plan. One API key for all your projects.
- Feedback loop endpoint to train detection on your specific content patterns
Built by the Same Team Whose Software is Trusted by
30,000,000+ Websites Worldwide.
Everything You Need to Eliminate Spam
Forget wrestling with CAPTCHAs and complex anti-spam setups. ActiveLayer handles it all.
AI-Powered Detection
Analyzes submission content and available signals to return a spam verdict. Review the score and threshold in each API response.
Zero CAPTCHAs
Your visitors never see a puzzle, a checkbox, or a challenge — they just submit and move on.
Millisecond Speed
Spam verdicts returned faster than your database query. Forms submit without delay, and your conversions stay fully intact.
WordPress Plugin
One plugin, one API key. Protects your forms and comments with no code required — done in minutes.
REST API / Any Platform
Works with Node.js, PHP, Python, Laravel, Next.js, Express, and any framework or language that makes HTTP requests.
9+ Form Integrations
Native support for WPForms, Contact Form 7, Elementor Forms, Ninja Forms, Fluent Forms, and more.
Full Transparency
Every verdict includes a confidence score, detection signals, and a detection ID — you always know why something was flagged.
Automatic Fallbacks
Safe defaults built in. If ActiveLayer is ever unreachable, submissions pass through normally and your forms never break.
Unlimited Sites
Every plan covers unlimited sites with no per-site licensing. One account protects everything you build and manage.
Why Smart Website Owners Trust ActiveLayer
Stopping spam isn’t luck. It’s a system — AI detection, millisecond verdicts, transparent decisions, and safe fallbacks working together on every single submission.
Spam Verdicts in Milliseconds. Your Visitors Never Wait.
ActiveLayer returns a verdict through its API without asking visitors to solve a CAPTCHA. Your server can use that verdict in its submission workflow.
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Time to verdict
faster than your database query
47ms
ActiveLayer<100ms
Akismet~300ms
CleanTalk~500ms
Invisible Protection That Never Blocks a Real Customer.
CAPTCHA challenges can interrupt form completion. ActiveLayer checks submissions through its API, so your visitors never see a challenge, never solve a puzzle, and never abandon your form in frustration. They fill out the form, hit submit, and move on. You get the lead, not the spam.
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With CAPTCHAs
Email address
Your message
I’m not a robot
Verify to Submit
Conversion friction
VS
With ActiveLayer
Email address
Your message
Submit Securely
No Conversion Loss
Every Verdict Explained. Nothing Hidden.
Every verdict includes a confidence score, detection signals, and a detection ID. You always know why something was flagged — and your clients do too. No black boxes, no “trust us” — just evidence you can read.
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POST /api/v1/check · 200 · 47ms
verdict: “spam”
confidence: 0.98
signals: [link_farm, sender_reputation]
detection_id: “al_det_8f2c41”
decision: rejected
audit: logged ✓
verdict: “spam”
confidence: 0.98
signals: [link_farm, sender_reputation]
detection_id: “al_det_8f2c41”
decision: rejected
audit: logged ✓
Every verdict, on the record
If ActiveLayer Is Ever Unreachable, Your Forms Don’t Break.
Safe defaults are built in. If our API is unreachable or doesn’t respond within your timeout, submissions pass through normally and you get notified. Protection should never be a single point of failure.
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Your forms — uptime
100%
API blip at 09:41 — passed through · 0 lost
One Product for Every Website You Run.
Running WordPress? Install the plugin and enable protection per form with a checkbox — no code required. Building a custom app? Add a single REST call and get back a verdict with full detection signals. One dashboard, one API key, one product — whether you’re a site owner, developer, agency, or SaaS builder.
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What ActiveLayer Users Are Saying
Agencies & multi-brand teams
“We run forms across seven WooCommerce plugin brands. With one product spam is an annoyance; at seven it’s a full-time job someone on the team has to own. ActiveLayer’s the first thing that’s held up at that scale. Catches the junk quietly and we haven’t shipped a CAPTCHA to a paying customer.”
Josh KohlbachFounder, Rymera Web Co
Membership & registration spam
“On a membership site you open the dashboard and fifty fake sign-ups are waiting there overnight, and the only fix anyone offers is a CAPTCHA at the door. That’s where you lose the good ones. ActiveLayer catches them before they get there.”
Graham HoffmanGeneral Manager, BuddyBoss
CAPTCHA conversion loss
“Last month I watched a real person give up on a reCAPTCHA on one of our own sites. ActiveLayer fixed that. No puzzles.”
John TurnerCo-founder, SeedProd
4.9 / 5on WordPress.org
5 featured reviews
Remove Google reCAPTCHA!
“ActiveLayer is easy to set and easy to use and monitor. Thumbs up!”
So far so good
“Active Layer has been a great asset to my site.”
Working Great – Zero Spam so far
“A perfect solution since I have no control over the web hosting settings.”
Useful and nice addition
“Very nice, simple and clean. I used to receive spam sometimes, now I am free of it!”
I was getting spam daily and now there is none
“The spam was very annoying and it’s now been 3 days since I installed Active Layer and now there is none. Yay!”
Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions about ActiveLayer? We’ve got answers.
ActiveLayer is AI-powered spam protection for forms and comments. You send us content, we return a spam verdict with confidence score and detection signals in milliseconds. It works with WordPress (via plugin) and any platform (via REST API).
ActiveLayer has a native WPForms integration built by Awesome Motive. Install the ActiveLayer plugin, enter your API key, and enable protection per form inside the WPForms builder with a single checkbox. Spam submissions are caught automatically before they reach your inbox. No reCAPTCHA widget needed.
ActiveLayer supports 9+ WordPress integrations out of the box: WPForms, Contact Form 7, Elementor Forms, Formidable Forms, Ninja Forms, Fluent Forms, Forminator, Sure Forms, and WordPress Comment Forms. Outside WordPress, the REST API works with any platform, framework, or language that can make an HTTP request.
CAPTCHA widgets can require puzzles and load vendor scripts. ActiveLayer shows no CAPTCHA challenge. The WordPress plugin can load first-party scripts that collect browser and behavior signals and submit them with the form.
No. ActiveLayer is completely invisible. It works server-side, so your visitors never see a checkbox, a puzzle, or any challenge. They submit forms and comments normally. The spam protection happens behind the scenes.
Milliseconds. ActiveLayer is designed to return verdicts faster than your database query. Your forms and comments never feel slow, and your conversion rates stay intact.
ActiveLayer includes automatic safe defaults. If our API is unreachable or doesn’t respond within your timeout, submissions pass through normally. Your forms and comments never break because of us. We document this graceful degradation pattern in our integration guides.
Yes. 200 spam checks in total. No credit card required. Full API access with no feature restrictions. Upgrade to Pro from $5/mo for 5,000 checks, choose 100,000 checks for $65/mo as you grow, or contact us for Enterprise from $149/mo.
Eliminate Spam. Protect Every Lead.
It’s That Simple.
Join the thousands of website owners, agencies, and developers who use ActiveLayer to stop spam and protect every real submission.
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