Tollbit Alternative 2026: Protect & Monetize Your Content on Your Domain

Tollbit is known for crawler and API monetization and bot handling; it typically requires you to create a subdomain that Tollbit manages for crawler access. If you’re looking for an alternative that lets you protect and monetize your actual page content - the same pages real users and good bots see - instead of routing crawlers to a separate, vendor-managed subdomain: Trusted Accounts helps you protect the content that would otherwise get scraped, while allowing good bots (e.g. Google, Bing) for SEO and giving you crawler management in a single Admin Panel. This page outlines how Trusted Accounts fits as a Tollbit alternative.

What you may need from a crawler/bot solution

• Protect and monetize your actual content – Keep control of your real pages and content; avoid handing a subdomain to a third party. Protect and monetize the same content that would otherwise be scraped, instead of serving crawlers from a separate, vendor-managed subdomain.
• Protection first – Block or challenge scrapers and bad crawlers that steal content, abuse APIs, or overload your site. Allow good bots (e.g. Googlebot) so SEO and indexing are not hurt.
• Crawler management – Visibility into who is crawling you; allowlist/blocklist; control over which bots get full access, which get rate-limited or challenged, and which are blocked.
• Request + behaviour – Evaluate each request (and optionally on-page behaviour) so you can distinguish good crawlers from scrapers and from human traffic.
• Works with your stack – Call from your server or CDN; no requirement to use a specific proxy or vendor for all traffic.

Trusted Accounts as a Tollbit alternative

• Protect and monetize your actual pages – No subdomain handover: Trusted Accounts runs on your stack. You protect and monetize the same page content that real users and good bots see; the content that would otherwise get scraped stays on your site, under your control, with allow/challenge/block applied at your server or CDN.
• Allow/challenge/block – Bot Protection: request check from your server or CDN returns allow, challenge, or block. You allow good bots, challenge or block bad crawlers and scrapers. Decisions in under ~50 ms; fail-open on timeout so real users and good bots are not locked out.
• Crawler management in the Admin Panel – See crawlers and bots in the dashboard; manage allowlists (e.g. Googlebot) and policies. Supports SEO and crawler monetization strategies while protecting content and APIs.
• SDK for crawler and scraper detection – Bot Detection: on-page behaviour and device signals improve classification (good crawler vs scraper, human vs bot) and feed the Admin Panel.
• Optional challenge – When the API returns “challenge,” send the visitor to a challenge page (taCAPTCHA). Real users and good bots rarely see it; scrapers and bad crawlers are filtered or challenged.
• API and integration – POST /api/v1/check-request from any backend or CDN; WordPress plugin available. Use for web pages and, where appropriate, for API endpoints to protect against scraping and abuse.

Use cases: News and publishers (content and feed protection, crawler monetization, availability), ecommerce (price and product protection), any site that wants to allow good bots and block or challenge the rest.

For more: User verification for online media and news platforms, Bot Protection - Top 7 Tools for 2026, How to Defend your Platform against Spammers, Bots and Trolls.

Try Trusted Accounts - crawler management and bot protection with allow/challenge/block and good-bot allowlisting.

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