Fingerprint: Advanced Visitor Identification for Fraud Prevention & Enhanced UX

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Fingerprint offers industry-leading visitor identification and Smart Signals to prevent fraud and improve user experience. Get accurate, stable IDs for web/mobile with 99.9% uptime.

Fingerprint provides a sophisticated Device Intelligence Platform designed to proactively stop fraud and significantly improve user experience by going beyond traditional browser fingerprinting. Leverage Fingerprint's highly accurate visitor identification and Smart Signals by starting your free 14-day trial with unlimited API calls, no credit card required.

Trusted by thousands of developers, Fingerprint boasts a robust ecosystem with over 10 integrations, 15 SDKs & Libraries, and a strong open-source foundation evident in its 26,000+ GitHub Stars. Get started in minutes, knowing the platform is GDPR/CCPA compliant and offers a real-time view of visitor attributes like visitorId, confidence score, botInformation, incognito status, IP, and first/last seen at timestamps.

The World’s Most Accurate Visitor Identifier Fingerprint achieves industry-leading accuracy through advanced fingerprinting, fuzzy matching, and server-side techniques. This ensures a remarkably stable and permanent visitor identifier that persists for months, even through browser upgrades. For instance, Fingerprint Pro correctly identifies 99.5% of devices after 30 days, maintaining 98% accuracy even after 120 days – a significant improvement over the open-source FingerprintJS.

Platform Capabilities:

Web and Mobile Support: Identify devices across native iOS and Android applications, as well as web browsers.
Webhooks: Receive instant, secure notifications delivered directly to your backend systems.
Server-side API: Integrate seamlessly into your server-side business rules or signup processes.
Easy Installation: Sign up for a free 14-day trial, install the JavaScript agent, and create a custom subdomain for improved accuracy.

How Fingerprint Works: Built on open-source principles, Fingerprint generates permanent, highly accurate visitor identifiers through a multi-layered approach:

Server-side Analysis and Machine Learning: Provides a holistic view of all attributes to generate the most stable and accurate visitor ID.
Storage and Deduplication: Collects multiple attributes for fuzzy matching and gracefully handles browser and OS upgrades.
Cookie and Local Storage Management: Utilizes cryptographically signed cookies and local storage to reliably associate visitor identifier values with fingerprintable attributes.
Browser-side (FingerprintJS): The foundational browser fingerprinting library that generates fingerprints from matching browser attributes.

FingerprintJS vs. Fingerprint (Pro): A Detailed Comparison

While both offer core features like standard (screen, OS, device name) and advanced (Canvas, audio, fonts) fingerprint signals, Fingerprint (Pro) elevates visitor identification significantly:

Smart Signals: Available in Pro Plus and Enterprise, these include advanced bot detection, device, network, and user behavior analytics.
ID Type: Fingerprint (Pro) provides a stable Visitor Identifier through server-side techniques, deduplication, and fuzzy matching. This is distinct from basic "fingerprint hashes" (FingerprintJS) which rely on exact attribute matches and are less stable over time. (1)
ID Lifetime: Fingerprint (Pro) identifiers last for months to years, compared to "several weeks" for FingerprintJS.
ID Origin: Fingerprint (Pro) IDs originate from the server, offering greater reliability than client-side FingerprintJS.
ID Collisions: Collisions are rare with Fingerprint (Pro), but "common" with FingerprintJS.
Additional Features: Fingerprint (Pro) includes Incognito mode detection (works across all modern browsers), server-side accuracy increase (using TLS crypto, IPv4/v6 data), Query API & Webhooks for flexible workflows, and Geolocation based on IP address.

Operational Excellence: Fingerprint (Pro) ensures enterprise-grade operations with features like:

Data Security: Your infrastructure choice, with data encrypted at rest.
Storage: Unlimited storage within your infrastructure.
Regions: Hosting available in the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
Compliance: Fully GDPR, CCPA, and SOC 2 Type II compliant, and ISO 27001 certified. (2) As a data controller, you must still ensure compliance for legitimate interest like fraud prevention or seek consent.
SLA: A guaranteed 99.9% uptime.
Support: Basic and advanced support options are available, complementing the active GitHub community.

Powerful Use Cases: Fingerprint helps prevent fraud and enhances user experiences across diverse scenarios:

Payment Fraud: Protect revenue while maintaining high approval rates.
Personalization: Increase cart sizes, reduce checkout friction, and enhance recommendations.
Account Sharing Prevention: Boost revenue by converting existing users into paying customers.
New Account Fraud: Prevent fraudulent sign-ups effectively.
Account Takeover: Safeguard user accounts from unauthorized access.
SMS Fraud: Combat fraudulent activities originating via SMS.
Paywall Enforcement: Reliably manage access to premium content.
Bot Detection: Identify and mitigate malicious bot activity.

Getting Started with Fingerprint: Fingerprint offers transparent pricing with monthly and annual plans. A 14-day free trial is available without requiring a credit card. The platform proudly maintains a 99.9% uptime SLA, detailed on its publicly available status page.

Your Next Steps:

New User? Create your Fingerprint account today.
Migrating from FingerprintJS? View documentation to upgrade your code in just 30 seconds.
Join the Discord Community: Connect with other users, get updates, and provide feedback.

Fingerprint is a comprehensive Device Intelligence Platform, offering Smart Signals, integrations, and robust support for developers. Explore our extensive resources including the Resource Center, Blog, Case Studies, Guides, FAQ, and Support Center. Access developer tools like Documentation, Tutorials, SDKs & Libraries, GitHub, and the active Discord Community.