Link Shield is a URL scanning API for detecting phishing, malware and otherwise suspicious links. It is developer infrastructure rather than an end-user product: you call it before a link reaches your users.
The obvious uses are any product where users submit URLs – comments, messaging, marketplaces, link shorteners, support tickets – where a single malicious link is a real incident. Alongside the scanning API it provides documentation, analytics on what has been scanned, and a self-serve onboarding path the vendor describes as minutes to explore.
Pricing is public and clearly staged: a 5-day free trial, then Hobby at $10/month for 10,000 scans with API access, email support and basic analytics, and Pro at $100/month for 100,000 scans with priority support. Yearly billing saves a month. That entry price makes it realistic for a side project, which is unusual in threat intelligence.
Link Shield starts at $10, which is 85% below the Security & Compliance AI median of $67 a month across the 25 priced tools we list in that category.
The cheapest paid option in Security & Compliance AI starts at $4 and the most expensive at $30,000.
18% of Security & Compliance AI tools in the directory offer a free tier, which this one does not.
Compared against every priced listing in Security & Compliance AI, recalculated as the catalogue changes. Method and the full market breakdown are in our AI tool pricing study.
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