What Are the Alternatives to cside?
Alternatives to cside include Jscrambler, Feroot, Source Defense, Reflectiz, client-side modules from Akamai, Cloudflare, Imperva and F5, and Script Monitoring. We make Script Monitoring, so we're biased, and Script Monitoring is a separate company from cside. This video covers where cside is strong (a broader bot and fraud platform, and a larger free plan at 2,000 payment-page views), how the published prices compare (the same from $99 to $499 a month), what each plan includes at that price (on our Pro: vendor guardrails, the Agentic Web Scanner, S3 export and multiple teams; API keys on every plan, Free included), and two things to check for PCI DSS 6.4.3 & 11.6.1: whether a script proxy sits in your checkout path and has to be allowed in your CSP, and inline-script coverage.
Full answer: cside Alternatives: Honest Comparison (2026)
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Alternatives to cside include Jscrambler, Feroot, Source Defense and Reflectiz, client-side modules from Akamai, Cloudflare, Imperva and F5, and Script Monitoring. We make Script Monitoring, so we're biased. Script Monitoring is our own product, a separate company from cside. Its PCI pricing matches ours at every volume both publish, up to 500,000 payment-page views. So the useful questions are what each plan includes at that price, how much setup each needs, and whether a vendor sits between your customers and your scripts. First, where cside is strong. It's a broader platform: the same tag also does device fingerprinting, bot and AI-agent detection, which matters if fraud is on your list too. And its free plan is larger than ours. Pricing is close. Both publish it, and it matches at every step both list, from $99 a month for 100,000 payment-page views to $499 at 500,000. Above that, cside is custom. So check two things. First, the proxy. cside can serve your third-party scripts through its own proxy domain, which your CSP has to allow, and which puts it in your checkout path. Test a slow or degraded proxy, not only a fully down one. Second, inline scripts. 6.4.3 covers every script on the payment page, inline ones included, and injected inline script is a common skimmer shape. Ask cside whether inline scripts are monitored today. For comparison, Script Monitoring monitors inline scripts as well as external files, and never proxies your scripts. It's one first-party tag, with no DNS, CDN or CSP change. And at the same $99, our Pro includes vendor guardrails, the Agentic Web Scanner, S3 export and multiple teams. cside places its crawler, S3 export and multiple teams on Enterprise. API keys are on every plan of ours, free included. Choose cside if you want script monitoring plus bot, fraud or AI-agent detection from one vendor, or the larger free plan decides it. Choose us if you want PCI DSS evidence without a vendor in your checkout path, a one-tag setup, and more on Pro for the same price. Script Monitoring turns 6.4.3 & 11.6.1 into a weekly evidence pack for your assessor, kept 18 months. You can compare them on your own checkout. Script Monitoring is free for 1,000 page views a month, and Pro starts at $99 a month, with a 14-day trial. Start for free at scriptmonitoring.com.