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title: "TraceTail vs FingerprintJS: pricing, limits and features compared — TraceTail"
description: "How TraceTail compares with Fingerprint, the company behind FingerprintJS, on price, free allowance, rate limits, platforms and data retention, using Fingerprint's published pricing."
url: https://tracetail.io/blog/tracetail-vs-fingerprintjs
updated: 2026-10-04
---

# TraceTail vs FingerprintJS: pricing, limits and features compared

How TraceTail compares with Fingerprint, the company behind FingerprintJS, on price, free allowance, rate limits, platforms and data retention, using Fingerprint's published pricing.

_TraceTail Team · published February 10, 2025 · updated October 4, 2026 · 2 min read_

Fingerprint, the company behind the FingerprintJS library, is the best-known name in browser fingerprinting, and it's probably on your shortlist if you're evaluating vendors. This post compares it with TraceTail on price, limits and features. Fingerprint's figures come from [its pricing page](https://fingerprint.com/pricing/), checked on October 4, 2026.

## What Fingerprint does well

- **Platforms.** Besides the browser, it has SDKs for native iOS and Android apps. TraceTail is browser-only.
- **Extra signals.** Its paid plans include Smart Signals such as VPN and browser-tamper detection. TraceTail's only signal beyond the visitor ID is a flag for automated browsers.
- **Enterprise terms.** Its Enterprise plan comes with a 99.9% uptime SLA. TraceTail doesn't offer an SLA.

If you need any of those, Fingerprint is the better fit.

## Price

TraceTail charges one rate: the first 1,000 requests each month are free, then $0.10 per 1,000. Fingerprint's Pro Plus plan costs $99.00 a month including 20,000 API calls, then $4.00 per 1,000; larger volumes are priced individually on Enterprise.

| Requests a month | TraceTail | Fingerprint          |
| ---------------- | --------- | -------------------- |
| 50,000           | $4.90     | $219.00 (Pro Plus)   |
| 500,000          | $49.90    | $2,019.00 (Pro Plus) |
| 5,000,000        | $499.90   | Custom (Enterprise)  |

## Limits and terms

|                     | TraceTail                           | Fingerprint                               |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| Free allowance      | 1,000 requests every month          | 1,000 API calls a month                   |
| Trial               | None needed                         | 14-day trial of Pro Plus                  |
| Rate limit          | 100 requests per second per key     | 5 requests per second (Free and Pro Plus) |
| Stored visitor data | Until 180 days after the last visit | 30 days (90 on Enterprise)                |
| Volume discounts    | None: one rate at every volume      | Through sales                             |

## Accuracy

TraceTail identifies returning visitors with 99.6% accuracy. Fingerprint describes its own visitor identification as industry-leading. Accuracy depends heavily on your traffic, though: mobile Safari is harder to tell apart than desktop Chrome, and privacy-focused browsers deliberately blur some signals. The best comparison is both products running side by side on your own traffic.

## When TraceTail is the better fit

- You want to start free, without a card or a trial clock.
- You want one price per request at every volume, with no plan to outgrow.
- You need more than 5 requests per second without an enterprise contract.
- You only need to recognize web browsers.

## Switching

Replace the library, create a TraceTail client with your API key, and keep sending `visitorId` to your backend. The two products compute different IDs, so each returning visitor gets a new ID once.

```javascript
// FingerprintJS
import FingerprintJS from '@fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs';

const fp = await FingerprintJS.load();
const { visitorId } = await fp.get();
```

```javascript
// TraceTail
import { TraceTail } from '@tracetail/js';

const tracetail = new TraceTail({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY', endpoint: 'https://tracetail.io/api' });
const { visitorId } = await tracetail.generateFingerprint();
```

The [full comparison](https://tracetail.io/vs-fingerprintjs) has the same figures in one table. [Create a free account](https://tracetail.io/auth) to try TraceTail on your own traffic.

Tags: FingerprintJS, Comparison, Pricing