"What I love is how quietly it works."
"Catches the junk quietly."
"ActiveLayer fixed that. No puzzles."
Block Spam Online
Never Block Customers
While CAPTCHAs drive away 40% of your visitors and other spam tools take seconds to respond, ActiveLayer catches spam in milliseconds. No puzzles. No friction. No lost leads.
One Dashboard. Every Client Site. Zero Spam.
Built by Awesome Motive, 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 content patterns, sender reputation, and behavioral signals to catch spam with 99.5%+ accuracy.
Zero CAPTCHAs
Entirely server-side protection. 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.
Other spam tools take 2+ seconds to return a verdict — a delay that kills conversions. ActiveLayer responds in milliseconds, faster than your database query, so forms submit instantly and comments post without delay. Speed isn't a bonus feature; it's the reason your leads don't drop off.
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Time to verdict
faster than your database query
47ms
ActiveLayer<100ms
Tool B~1,400ms
Tool C2,000ms+
Invisible Protection That Never Blocks a Real Customer.
CAPTCHAs cost you up to 40% of form completions — every puzzle is a potential customer lost. ActiveLayer works entirely server-side, 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 CAPTCHA
Select all traffic lights…
up to 40% drop off
With ActiveLayer
Straight to your inbox
no challenge · lead kept
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 /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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Custom applicationProtected
Comments & formsProtected
one key · al_live_····
What ActiveLayer Users Are Saying
"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."
JK
Josh KohlbachFounder, Rymera Web Co
"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."
GH
Graham HoffmanGeneral Manager, BuddyBoss
"Last month I watched a real person give up on a reCAPTCHA on one of our own sites. ActiveLayer fixed that. No puzzles."
JT
John TurnerCo-founder, SeedProd
4.8 / 5
on WordPress.org
"Works great for a client's website that was getting hammered… A perfect solution since I have no control over the web hosting settings."
"You can have a summary of the emails that were accepted, and those considered as spam. Very nice, simple and clean. Now I am free of it!"
"It's now been 3 days since I installed ActiveLayer and now there is none."
Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions about ActiveLayer? We've got answers.
Still stuck? Contact usActiveLayer 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. No CAPTCHAs, no client-side scripts, no visitor friction. 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.
reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha require your visitors to solve puzzles and load client-side JavaScript that tracks user behavior. ActiveLayer is entirely server-side. Your visitors never see a challenge, and no tracking scripts load on your pages. The result: zero friction, faster page loads, and no lost conversions.
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.
No. ActiveLayer is entirely server-side. We never load scripts on your visitors' browsers, never set cookies, and never track user behavior. We analyze the content you send us (form text, metadata) and return a verdict. That's it. Full details are in our Privacy Policy.
Yes. 1,000 spam checks in total. No credit card required. Full API access with no feature restrictions. Upgrade to Pro ($19/mo for 25,000 checks), Agency ($49/mo for 100,000 checks), or Enterprise (from $149/mo) as your volume grows.
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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