The true cost of building it in-house, piecing it together from point vendors, or running it on Rupt. Public list prices, your numbers.
Cost of ownership
Set your traffic and your team. An evaluation is one check on a login, signup or other action. Vendor prices are public list prices, checked September 2026.
Evaluations that end in an SMS or email code
ID and selfie checks a month
Your team
Engineers to build and run it in-house
Engineers to connect and run vendors
Engineers to run Rupt
Year one cost
Year one at list prices. Rupt counts a 4-week integration. Defaults: 2 engineers to build, 0.5 to run vendors and 0.1 to run Rupt.
Each line is a list price, one of your inputs, or an assumption we state.
Engineers
2 × $200,000 a year
Email and IP reputation
IPQS at 2 lookups per evaluation. No published price above 75,000 lookups, estimated at the SMB+ rate of $0.0133 each
Bot challenge
Cloudflare Turnstile, free
SMS and email codes
Twilio Verify, $0.05 per successful code plus $0.0083 per US SMS, with 80% succeeding
ID and selfie checks
Stripe Identity, $1.50 per verification
Plus building fingerprinting, rules, challenges and dashboards.
Device fingerprinting
Fingerprint, $99 for 20,000 calls, then $4 per 1,000. Includes IP blocklist signals
Email intelligence
IPQS at 1 lookup per evaluation. No published price above 75,000 lookups, estimated at the SMB+ rate of $0.0133 each
Bot challenge
Cloudflare Turnstile, free
SMS and email codes
Twilio Verify, $0.05 per successful code plus $0.0083 per US SMS, with 80% succeeding
ID and selfie checks
Stripe Identity, $1.50 per verification
Engineers to connect them
0.5 × $200,000 a year
Plus building the rules and challenge flows between them.
Evaluations
$99 for 20,000, then $0.005 each
SMS and email codes
$0.10 per delivered challenge
ID and selfie checks
$0.33 per check
Integration
4 engineer-weeks
Upkeep
0.1 × $200,000 a year
All-inclusive: fingerprinting, rules, challenges and the AI agent.
The advertised price covers one piece. Red is what the rest costs.
Device fingerprinting
Email and IP reputation
Bot challenge
SMS and email codes
ID and selfie checks
Everything above, one platform
Public list prices, checked September 2026. IPQS publishes no price above 75,000 lookups a month, so above that we extend its SMB+ rate of $0.0133 per lookup. Build work is your vendor engineers split evenly across rules, challenge flows, account sharing and a user view, and each row pays only for the parts it lacks. Integration and upkeep apply to every option, Rupt included, so the table leaves them out.
AI writes version one fast, and version one is often as little as 10 to 20 percent of the work. The rest is owning it.
Keeping up is Rupt's whole job.
Book a demo and we'll walk through your use case, show you the signals on real evaluations, and price out your volume.