Feroot alternative: an honest comparison
Feroot runs Inspector for discovery and PageGuard for enforcement, with a strong focus on privacy and healthcare alongside PCI. Their education content is the best in the category, and worth reading whoever you buy from.
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Feroot
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Script Monitoring
From $99/month
TL;DR
Feroot vs Script Monitoring
WHAT THEY DO WELL
Genuinely excellent educational material. Their explanations of CSP, formjacking and the PCI requirements are widely cited, and we would rather acknowledge that than pretend otherwise.
WHERE TO CHECK CAREFULLY
Detection is based on in-browser JavaScript agents. An agent running in the page can be studied by anything else running in the page.
PRICING
Feroot is quote-based. Ours is published, from $99/month, with a free plan.
Short on time? Scroll to which one to choose if you want the short answer.
Is Script Monitoring a good Feroot alternative?
Yes, if your primary driver is PCI DSS 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 evidence and you want published pricing and a free plan to evaluate on. Your problem is broader than PCI and includes healthcare privacy or detailed consent and tracker governance. Their coverage there is real and we do not compete with it. The rest of this page sets out where each product is genuinely stronger, with a capability table, so you can make the call on your own constraints rather than on ours.
Where Feroot is strong
Taking this seriously, because a comparison where the other product has no advantages is not a comparison. These are real and they may well be decisive for you.
Genuinely excellent educational material. Their explanations of CSP, formjacking and the PCI requirements are widely cited, and we would rather acknowledge that than pretend otherwise.
Strong privacy and healthcare positioning, including HIPAA-oriented analysis of tracking scripts, which is a real need that most PCI-focused tools ignore.
Inspector plus PageGuard covers both discovery and enforcement as separate, mature products.
A tracker database that maps known third-party scripts to their behaviour and ownership.
Where Feroot has limits
Equally honestly, and stated as things to verify rather than as accusations.
Detection is based on in-browser JavaScript agents. An agent running in the page can be studied by anything else running in the page.
Session coverage is sampled at 10% of sessions rather than complete, which matters specifically for payloads written to fire rarely. Nine sessions in ten are never inspected.
The breadth across PCI, privacy and HIPAA means the PCI evidence workflow is one of several priorities rather than the single focus.
Quote-based pricing with no published figures.
Side by side
Capability comparison
Capability
Feroot
Script Monitoring
Payment-page script inventory for 6.4.3
Yes
Yes
Header change detection for 11.6.1
Yes
Yes
Session coverage
Sampled, 10% of sessions
100% of sessions, no sampling
Server-side payload analysis
No, agent-based detection
Yes, every payload inspected
Published pricing
No, quote-based
Yes, from $99/month
Detection technique
Agent-based
In-page, plus server-side hashing
Free plan covering both PCI requirements
No
Yes, 1,000 page views a month
Feroot pricing, and ours
Feroot does not publish pricing. Like most of this category it is quote-based, so establishing a comparable number requires a sales cycle.
We publish ours: free for 1,000 page views a month, Pro from $99/month for 100,000 payment-page views, $499/month at 500,000 and $799/month at 1,000,000, overage at $0.0013 per page view, annual billing at 10 months instead of 12, and Enterprise on request.
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Feroot
Not published
Script Monitoring
Free
1,000 page views a month
Pro, 100,000 payment-page views
$99/month
500,000 page views
$499/month
1,000,000 page views
$799/month
Overage
$0.0013 per page view
Annual billing
10 months instead of 12
Enterprise
On request
Which one to choose
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Choose Feroot if
Your problem is broader than PCI and includes healthcare privacy or detailed consent and tracker governance. Their coverage there is real and we do not compete with it. For PCI alone, note that session coverage is sampled on some configurations and pricing is quote-based.
Choose Script Monitoring if
You need complete session coverage rather than a sample, you want the 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 records kept separate, and you want published pricing. It inspects 100% of sessions, with unlimited domains on every plan and full integrations on every paid plan.
Other comparisons
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Yes, for teams whose primary driver is PCI DSS 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 evidence, who want published pricing, and who want to evaluate on a free plan rather than through a sales cycle. Your problem is broader than PCI and includes healthcare privacy or detailed consent and tracker governance. Their coverage there is real and we do not compete with it.
No, and neither does most of this category, which is part of why comparing them is hard. Our pricing is published: free for 1,000 page views a month, Pro from $99/month, overage at $0.0013 per page view.
Yes, and for some combinations it is sensible. Running two client-side tools on the same payment page adds weight, so it is worth being deliberate about which one is the system of record for your PCI evidence and which is doing something else.
Yes, and it is worth asking every vendor in this category the same question. Our tag is integrity-checked on load: if what arrives in the browser is not the script we published, it does not run. A client-side monitor that an attacker can silently modify is worse than no monitor, because it keeps reporting all-clear while the page is compromised. Not every agent in this category does this, so put it to Akamai Page Integrity Manager as well.
Yes, this is the right thing to worry about, and the answer is that it should not. Installation is one first-party tag with no DNS or CDN change, and the tag is fail-open, so if our service is unavailable your page still renders. Most teams run monitor-only mode alongside their existing tool for a few weeks before switching the system of record.
Usually days rather than weeks. The tag goes in, you mark your payment pages with selector rules, and the inventory populates from live traffic immediately. The slower part is re-recording business justifications, and if you already wrote them for 6.4.3 they transfer directly.
Feroot does not publish pricing. Among tools that publish prices for PCI DSS 6.4.3 and 11.6.1: Script Monitoring is free for 1,000 payment-page views a month and $99/month (or $990 a year) for 100,000, with unlimited domains; cside is free for 2,000 payment-page views a month and $99/month for 100,000; DomDog is $999 a year for 100,000 page views on one domain and two payment pages; Source Defense Essentials is $98/month for 100,000 page views on one domain; Report URI's PCI features start on its $164.99/month plan; and if your traffic is already on Cloudflare, Client-Side Security Advanced is $0.099 per 1,000 requests. Which is cheapest depends on your page views and how many domains you need.
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Install the tag, mark your payment pages, and see what the inventory finds. Free forever on 1,000 page views a month, no credit card.
Free forever plan. No credit card.