Paladin Vendor Report: Fraud Prevention 2026

The 2026 Paladin Vendor Report

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Introduction

The 2026 Paladin Vendor Report

The commerce landscape is increasingly complex. This report cuts to the chase.

Every day at Paladin Group, we’re in the thick of the fast-paced world of fraud solutions. With dramatic changes coming quickly, including AI “assistants” or “Agents” handling shopping tasks on the customers' behalf, commerce and business models are ever-evolving. So it’s crucial to remain focused on streamlining and maximizing the capabilities of organizational fraud management operations while reducing checkout friction and preparing technology to identify legitimate agent-led activity without increasing false positives.

As experts on today’s solution providers, services, and tools, it’s our job to maintain a high-level view of the fraud prevention landscape as well as a detailed, on-the-ground understanding of every solution and every challenge. As the number of providers and services grow and technology evolves, merchants’ options become increasingly complex and varied.

It’s our mission to serve as an authority on these products and their strengths, areas of opportunity, and enhancements, which is why we published the first-ever Paladin Vendor Report (PVR) in 2017. It offered an unprecedented exploration of how merchants could mitigate the risks that come with accepting payments in an omni-channel, card-not-present world. Because of the constant evolution of many popular fraud mitigation solutions, we decided to provide the Paladin Vendor Report (PVR) on an annual basis. And now, we’re pleased to publish the latest: the 2025 Paladin Vendor Report. We’ve offered previous participants the chance to update their sections and incorporated additional participating vendors.

What this report offers: the PVR helps merchants navigate the ever-expanding number of solution providers and services available to them. We spoke with vendors who offer risk mitigation products to merchants in the Card Not Present (CNP), omni-channel, marketplace, and fintech environments—then gathered, examined, and compiled the information for each participating vendor. Vendors had the option to participate in the report, and Paladin was compensated for the research performed. Our team spent hours in discussion with each of these vendors. We test-drove their products and gathered overviews of their services, marketing, sales, technologies, and future plans. For vendors who chose not to participate in the report, we drew upon our extensive interaction, client input, and research to share a summary of their services.

This report is a groundbreaking effort to gain as much first-hand knowledge as possible from fraud prevention vendors, compiling our findings in a way that’s helpful and revolutionary for our industry and the merchants who depend on us. This report is purely informational, and it is not designed to rate the products and services of the vendors, review them, give opinions on them, or give a thumbs-up (or down) about the vendors. The report’s intent is to provide clarity regarding what products and services fraud mitigation vendors offer.

The vendors are segmented into five different categories based on their core offerings. Some of the vendors offer other products that complement their core offering or have additional functionality or products. Some vendors provide services in overlapping segments, and this report offers a separate overview for each of the following categories: