honeyp.ai and Stripe Radar
Radar guards the payment. honeyp.ai guards the signup and decides how much free credit each new account gets. If you give away compute before anyone pays, you need both moments covered.
What Stripe Radar does
Radar is Stripe's fraud product. It scores the payments that run through Stripe, and in 2026 it began screening free trials too. Stripe says that in two months it blocked more than 550,000 high-risk trials across four AI businesses, preventing an estimated $4.4 million in compute costs (Stripe). If you bill through Stripe, keep it on.
Where honeyp.ai fits
- At the signup itself. Free credits handed out the moment an account is created, free API keys and free tiers that never ask for a card: honeyp.ai checks the signup, whether or not it ever reaches a payment provider.
- A grade, not a gate. Full, reduced or no free credit, with the reasons. A real person who looks unusual gets fewer credits and a way to verify for the rest, not a closed door.
- The farm behind the accounts. Each new account is checked against the ones before it, so fifty accounts from one person show up as one group you can label in one click.
- Any billing setup. Stripe, Paddle, your own invoicing, or no billing yet.
| Question | Stripe Radar | honeyp.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Where it checks | Payments and trials that run through Stripe | Every signup, before any payment |
| What it returns | A risk score, then allow or block | A credit tier (full, reduced or none) and the reasons |
| Needs Stripe billing | Yes | No |
Run them together
- Keep Radar on your Stripe payments and trials.
- Add the honeyp.ai snippet to your signup page and one call to your backend. It starts in shadow mode, so nothing changes for your users.
- Over the 14-day trial, look at the accounts honeyp.ai would have reduced or blocked, and the farms it linked.
- Turn on credit tiers when the numbers look right to you.
Questions
Does honeyp.ai replace Radar?
No. honeyp.ai doesn't check payments. Keep Radar, or your payment provider's own fraud tools, for those.
We only give free trials with a card on Stripe. Do we still need honeyp.ai?
Radar may cover much of that case. honeyp.ai adds the reduced-credit middle ground and the view of linked accounts. Run the free audit on last month's signups to see whether that's worth it for you.