Overview
Welcome to Duckity's documentation site!
Welcome to Duckity's documentation site. Here you'll find everything you need to know about Duckity, plus some extras to help you use Duckity more efficiently and effectively.
What Duckity Is
Duckity simplifies your API's protection, makes it predictable, and increases the cost an attacker has to pay to abuse your application.
Impose a Cost on Abuse
Duckity adds an invisible-to-the-user non-parallelizable CPU cost on every protected request that increases the cost of abuse.
Keep Control
Keep full control over your protection's behavior by tuning parameters from the dashboard. Nothing is implicit.
Know What Goes On
Monitor the system's state at any time. Access patterns are logged for as long as you configure them to audit behavior in real time.
Set Up Once, Use Everywhere
Duckity provides cross-platform SDKs for you to use the same protection system everywhere. Get started in less than 5 minutes.
By layering dynamic CPU cost on top of configurable access rules and real-time adaptive costs, users stop being annoyed by intrusive CAPTCHA puzzles while abusers get an increasing cost.
Optimized for scale and heavy concurrent access, Duckity automatically scales with your application without hassle.
Benefits Over CAPTCHAs and Alternatives
Duckity provides several improvements over standard CAPTCHAs and CAPTCHA alternatives:
By relying on modern verifiable delay functions, Duckity is able to provide hands-off security to your application and customers without sacrificing on user experience. Abuse cost scales dynamically while your users get a predictable application experience, unlike alternatives where delays vary substantially depending on randomness.
Duckity provides multiple easy-to-use cross-platform SDKs for you to use a single configuration across all your clients. From web to native desktop and mobile applications, CLI applications, M2M connections, videogames, IoT, and more.
Configure Duckity's behavior to suit your application's precise needs. Multiple features can get individual configurations to beter suit each of their access patterns and requirements.
Most SDKs require no more than 4 lines of code to integrate with your application. Duckity provides detailed documentation for every feature to help you make the most out of it.
Duckity does not try to tell humans and bots apart. Instead, it enforces a background computational cost that humans do not notice.
| Duckity | CAPTCHAs | |
|---|---|---|
| Simple | ✅ | ✅ |
| Transparent | ✅ | ❌ |
| Predictable behavior | ✅ | ❌ |
| Customizable behavior | ✅ | ❌ |
| Frictionless | ✅ | ❌ |
| Cross-platform | ✅ | ❌ |
| Accessible | ✅ | ❌ |
| Tells humans and bots apart | ❌ | ❓ |
| Cost-effective | ✅ | ❓ |
| AI-resistant | ✅ | ❓ |
Get Started
You can make a free account by heading over to the Duckity Dashboard. To learn how to integrate with your stack in some minutes, head over to the Quick Start page.
Quick Start
Integrate Duckity in less than 5 minutes.