Reflectiz alternative: an honest comparison
Reflectiz scans your site remotely and needs no code change at all. That is a real advantage in organisations where adding a tag to the checkout is a multi-month change process.
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TL;DR
Reflectiz vs Script Monitoring
WHAT THEY DO WELL
No code change required. For teams who cannot get a tag onto the payment page, this is the deciding factor and nothing else on this list matches it.
WHERE TO CHECK CAREFULLY
Scans run from cloud infrastructure on a schedule. A browser arriving from a datacentre IP with no session, no cart and no consent state is not the visitor a targeted skimmer is written for.
PRICING
Reflectiz 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 Reflectiz 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. You genuinely cannot add a script to your payment pages. That constraint is real in some organisations, and in that situation a scanner is far better than nothing. 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 Reflectiz 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.
No code change required. For teams who cannot get a tag onto the payment page, this is the deciding factor and nothing else on this list matches it.
Fast to deploy, because there is nothing to deploy. You point it at your domains.
Good breadth of analysis on what it can see, including third-party inventory and behaviour reporting.
Strong research output on OWASP topics and real incident write-ups.
Where Reflectiz has limits
Equally honestly, and stated as things to verify rather than as accusations.
Scans run from cloud infrastructure on a schedule. A browser arriving from a datacentre IP with no session, no cart and no consent state is not the visitor a targeted skimmer is written for.
Between scans there is no coverage. An attack that runs and is removed inside the gap leaves no trace.
A scanner observes, it does not block. Some assessors do not accept a control that cannot stop a script as sufficient for 6.4.3 and 11.6.1, so confirm this with yours before committing.
Quote-based pricing with no published figures.
Side by side
Capability comparison
Capability
Reflectiz
Script Monitoring
Code change required
No, this is their main advantage
Yes, one first-party tag
Coverage model
Periodic remote scans
Every real session, continuously
Sees the page a real customer received
No, a datacentre view
Yes
Can block a malicious script
No
Yes
Catches a payload targeted at a traffic slice
Unlikely
Yes
Published pricing
No, quote-based
Yes, from $99/month
Detection technique
Periodic remote scans
In-page, plus server-side hashing
Session coverage
Scans, not real sessions
100% of sessions, no sampling
Server-side payload analysis
From scans, not sessions
Yes, every payload inspected
Free plan covering both PCI requirements
No
Yes, 1,000 page views a month
Reflectiz pricing, and ours
Reflectiz 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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Reflectiz
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 Reflectiz if
You genuinely cannot add a script to your payment pages. That constraint is real in some organisations, and in that situation a scanner is far better than nothing. The trade-off is that scans run on a schedule from datacentre IPs, so a skimmer aimed at real shoppers can go unseen, and it cannot block.
Choose Script Monitoring if
You can add a tag, you want coverage of every session rather than a scheduled sample, and you want the option to block rather than only report. It sees the page a real customer received, with unlimited domains on every plan and full integrations on every paid plan.
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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. You genuinely cannot add a script to your payment pages. That constraint is real in some organisations, and in that situation a scanner is far better than nothing.
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 Reflectiz 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.
Reflectiz 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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