BrightCloud vs. Google Safe Browsing API
Is upgrading to the BrightCloud Web Services worth paying for?
Depending on your needs, it might make a lot of sense!
The Google Safe Browsing API is a great resource, and it offers a lot of utility out of the box, for free, to the average developer who is looking for an accurate way to screen out or block the most obvious bad URLs.
However, if you're developing a new application, a browser plug-in, or simply an internal tool for your own use, there are many more benefits you might want to take advantage of by upgrading to the BCWS from the Google Safe Browsing API.
What are they?
Size does matter
- BrightCloud has 15x as many known malware sites - that's 15x the protection!
- BrightCloud updates its malware list with over 100,000 entries every day!
Get more updates more often more easily
- Malware churns quickly, the only efficient way to access it is through a cloud-based API.
- No more maintaining MD5 lists and diffs!
- Use local caching to reduce your costs, while getting the freshest data as often as you need.
BrightCloud's maintains your high quality of service
- BrightCloud spends a lot of time and money updating and improving the quality of the database.
- You or your customers can report misclassified URLs and we respond promptly to fix any errors at no additional cost.
- BrightCloud has been exclusively providing OEM service providers large and small with web security information since 2005.
- When you're ready, we have over 80 categories including categories like Sports, Adult and Gambling you can utilize to augment your solution later.
Flexible and simple payment system
- We offer a simple pay-as-you-go billing solution, just swipe your credit card and get billed as you make more API calls.
- If it's used as an internal tool, simply sign up with a credit card and avoid the long delays of contract negotiations and purchase order approval.
- If you're building an application/plugin for others, your customers can sign up at our website and use their own API keys to access BCWS.
- You can also provide a service to end-users and pay BCWS yourself, charging them for your value-added solution.
If your application, plugin, or service requires filtering out bad URLs and IP addresses to protect end-users, the BrightCloud Web Services offers access to an unparalleled malware database at a fraction of the cost of enterprise-quality solutions.