Signup protection

Stop fake signups
before they hit your database.

Bots, scripts, and now AI browser agents flood signup forms with fake accounts — inflating your metrics, burning your email reputation, and abusing free trials. useHUMA blocks them with a single API call at the moment of signup, using behavioral detection. No CAPTCHA, no friction for real users, no PII.

We learned this the hard way
55,000 fake accounts hit our own signup endpoint in one night. Here's the full post-mortem — what failed, and exactly how we stopped it. →
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Why fake signups are worth stopping

Fake accounts cost more than you think

Junk signups skew your activation and conversion metrics, burn your email-sending reputation on bounces, abuse free trials, and quietly run up your database and infra bills. The damage is done before a human ever notices.

It's not just bots anymore — it's AI agents

Scripts (Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium) and AI browser agents now fill out signup forms like a person would. Agent Shield flags these directly, returning an is_agent score alongside the human verdict on Pro & Enterprise.

No CAPTCHA, no friction

CAPTCHAs punish your real users at the worst possible moment — the signup — while modern bots solve them anyway. useHUMA verifies humans invisibly from behavioral signals, so genuine sign-ups never see a puzzle.

One API call, at the moment it matters

Drop the collector on your form and POST to /api/v1/verify on submit. Get back human and confidence in milliseconds, and reject signal-less or agent traffic before it ever hits your database. Any stack.

How it works — one call at signup
// On submit, send the collected signals with the new user
POST https://humaverify.com/api/v1/verify
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

{ "userId": "new_user_id", "sessionData": { ... } }

// Reject the signup if it isn't a real human
→ { "human": false, "confidence": 0.04, "agent": { "is_agent": true } }
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Frequently asked
How do I stop fake and bot signups?
Verify each signup at the moment of submission. useHUMA collects behavioral signals on your form and returns a human verdict from one API call, so you can reject bots, scripts, and AI agents before the account is created — without showing a CAPTCHA to real users.
How do I block AI agents from signing up?
useHUMA's Agent Shield detects automated browser agents — Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, and extension or computer-use agents — and returns a separate is_agent score on Pro and Enterprise plans, so you can block agent-driven signups specifically.
Does blocking fake signups add friction for real users?
No. Verification is invisible — real users just sign up. Only genuinely borderline sessions ever see a lightweight step-up challenge, so you protect signups without hurting conversion.

Block fake signups
in one API call.

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