Blocks the bad bots.Keeps the good ones.

Most of your traffic isn't human — bots hammer your login, scrape your content, and your host bills you for every request. MalCare identifies bots by their behavior across 400,000+ sites and blocks them, while Google, your APIs, and real visitors pass untouched.

Protect my site →How bots are identified
350,000+ BOTS BLOCKED / MO · 400,000+ SITE NETWORK · UP TO −70% SERVER LOAD
24 requests · 5 served · 19 turned away — you'd have paid to serve all 24
Trusted by 400,000+ sites · 120 countries
The crowd

Your analytics show people. Your server sees everything.

Analytics filters bots out. Your server doesn't — it serves every request, and your host charges for each one.

Proportions illustrative — industry studies put bot traffic at roughly half of the internet.
The symptom

The slow site

Every real visitor waits in line behind the crowd.

The symptom

The rising bill

Hosts charge for requests, not customers. Bots are requests.

The symptom

The 4 a.m. lockout

Bots guess passwords at wp-login all night.

Who they are

Six kinds of bot. Six different costs.

Each one bills you differently. All of them are blocked the same way.

COSTS: CPU — OR YOUR ADMIN ACCOUNT
The login cracker

Thousands of password guesses against wp-login.

COSTS: LOAD, THEN THE PASSWORD
The XML-RPC hammer

Many login attempts carried through a single endpoint.

COSTS: YOUR SEO
The scraper

Copies your content and republishes it.

YOUR CONTENT, YOUR CALL
The AI harvester

Reads your pages as training data. You decide who gets it.

COSTS: HOURS
The comment spammer

Fills the moderation queue faster than you can empty it.

COSTS: NOTHING — UNTIL IT FINDS ONE
The probe

Tries every known vulnerability on every door.

The cost

Blocking the crowd cuts server load by up to 70%.

Nothing about your site changes — the crowd just stops getting in. That's why MalCare is the only security plugin that makes your site faster.

  • 3.1The bill goes downBots stop consuming the resources your host bills for.
  • 3.2Pages get fasterReal visitors stop queueing behind bots.
  • 3.3The manual work endsNo logs to read and no IPs to chase.
Every worker is held. Your visitors wait behind the crowd for one to come free.
Illustrative — one worker serves one request at a time. Sites moving to MalCare have cut server load by up to 70%.
Precision

Good bots and real visitors always get through.

Blocking Googlebot would cost you more than the bad bots do — so good bots are verified, never guessed. Google, Facebook, Feedly and more pass automatically, and real visitors never see a captcha.

  • 5.1Search staysGoogle and Bing crawl normally.
  • 5.2Integrations keep workingAPIs, payment webhooks, and monitors are allowed.
  • 5.3No captchasThe checking does not interrupt real visitors.
Anyone can type a name. The seal is the part they can't — so Google, Bing, Facebook, Feedly and your own integrations pass without ever being challenged.

There is no list to maintain. There is nothing to maintain.

Other plugins hand you the logs and wish you luck. MalCare's network convicted the bot before it reached you.

  • No IP lists to keep
  • No logs to read
  • No rules to tune
  • Manual controls remain available — geo-blocking and per-IP rules
Proof

How the network performed last month.

0bots blocked
0requests processed
0attacks blocked
0sites reporting

AS OF JULY 2026 · REFRESHED MONTHLY

In their words. The noise stopped.

Rated 5 out of 5
Best login protection ever! We handle hundreds of sites, and I'd heard bad stories about brute force attacks & password hacking… but thankfully we never had to worry about this because of MalCare. I'm sure this saved us from many sleepless nights!
Robert AbelaWP Activity Log
Rated 5 out of 5
I was on the beach with my family when MalCare notified me of a plugin vulnerability across 50 of my sites. With one click on my smartphone, all sites were fixed within minutes.
Paul LaceyWordPress Expert
Rated 5 out of 5
I had been running iThemes, WordFence & Sucuri, but they kept getting hacked. Then I installed MalCare, which quickly found the malware and cleaned up the entire site.
Adam SilverConciergeWP · Founder

Common questions, answered.

No — not blocking good bots is the entire design goal. Google, Bing, social preview bots, and feed readers are verified and allowed automatically. Blocking Googlebot would cost you more than the bad bots do, and we treat it that way.
No. Legitimate automated traffic — payment webhooks, integrations, monitors — is recognized and allowed. If you run something unusual, you can allow it explicitly too.
Real visitors browse normally. Identification happens from behavior on our side of the door — not by making your customers prove they're human.
The firewall inspects what an individual request is trying to do (attack payloads). Bot protection manages who's allowed to make requests at all (non-human volume). You want both — they solve different problems.
Bots burn CPU and bandwidth your host charges for; removing them removes that load — sites moving to MalCare have cut server load by up to 70%. Less load means faster pages and, on metered hosting, a smaller bill.
They're identified like any other bot — by behavior at network scale. Whether your content feeds someone's training run is your call, not a default.
Yes — geo-blocking and manual IP rules are available from your dashboard. Most customers never need them.
No. No lists, no log reviews, no tuning. The network does the identifying; your site just gets lighter.

Stop paying to host the crowd.

Bad bots blocked automatically, good bots verified, real visitors untouched — and a lighter site from day one.

Protect my site →How bots are identified
400,000+ SITE NETWORK / GOOD BOTS PASS / WORKS ON ANY HOST