MASQRAD Review 2026
Cloaking & traffic filtering · self-hosted PHP script · subscription from $199/mo, crypto checkout
MASQRAD is a subscription cloaking and traffic-filtering platform aimed at media buyers and affiliate teams. It fingerprints every visitor that hits your landing infrastructure and splits traffic between a white page and the real offer page, with the stated goal of keeping ad-network moderators, compliance crawlers and bots off the funnel. The homepage title is simply "MASQRAD - Cloaking Service", and the site's own FAQ defines it as "an advanced traffic-filtering and cloaking platform that analyzes user cohorts, fingerprints, and behavioral signals to protect campaigns from fraud and moderation systems." Integration is self-hosted: you upload a small PHP script to your own domain. Three tiers are published with full public pricing - Starter $199/mo, Professional $299/mo, Advanced $499/mo - each also billable on 3- or 6-month terms, with payment taken in cryptocurrency. This review is based on what the site, its FAQ, Terms and Privacy policy actually state; where something is not published, we say so rather than guess.
Promo code
Use code PROXIES for 15% off your first payment on any plan. Terms are set by MASQRAD - confirm at checkout.
Key features
At a glance
Counts are taken from the product's own interface copy and i18n configuration. Pricing is published publicly: three monthly tiers at $199, $299 and $499, each also billable on 3- and 6-month terms.
What MASQRAD actually does
A cloaker sits in front of your landing page and decides, per request, which of two pages a visitor sees. MASQRAD's hero copy frames that as "Ultimate AI-Powered Cloaking & Full Content Protection", with protection promised "against bots, fraud systems, anti-detect environments, virtual machines, global security scanners, brand-compliance engines, and ad-network moderation - powered by advanced fingerprinting and deep cohort analysis."
The decision layer is described as three-stacked: a claimed threat-intelligence database of 5+ billion IP records (proxy networks, datacenters, mobile carriers, VPN ranges, Tor exit nodes, cloud networks, bot infrastructure and residential moderator ranges), a claimed 500,000+ residential moderator IP database plus moderator device fingerprints, and an ML risk score per request built from fingerprint weight, cohort probability tables, historical risk and timing/behavioural anomalies. Those figures are vendor claims and are not independently verifiable - see the limitations section.
Cloaking modes
Selectable per campaign, from passthrough to strict, plus a dedicated in-app mode for WebView, App and PWA traffic.
Browser verification depths
Two levels: Quick targets headless browsers and emulators; Deep targets patched browsers, stealth plugins and fingerprint-spoofing setups. JS fingerprint breadth is plan-tiered - roughly 150 signals on Professional, 400+ on Advanced.
The named traffic filters
Each is a toggle or rule you configure per campaign, alongside white-page vs offer-page routing, split testing, UTM rules and country/device/OS/engine targeting.
What it says it detects
- Headless browsers & emulators (Quick verification)
- Patched browsers, stealth plugins, fingerprint spoofing (Deep verification)
- Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright automation
- Virtualised environments & emulation engines
- Residential proxies, datacenter and hosting ranges
- BrandVerity, AdPolice and other ad-compliance scanners
- Click fraud, emulator farms, device spoofing, LTE rotation abuse
Named brand-monitoring targets include BrandVerity and AdPolice. Named platforms for moderator/reviewer blocking are Meta, TikTok, Google, Bing and X, and the FAQ says supported traffic sources are "All major ad networks, including Facebook, Google, TikTok, native ads, push networks, adult, and custom sources."
Beyond filtering: what else ships
Campaign health monitoring
Domain uptime, blacklist presence and offer-page availability are monitored, with instant alerts through the @masqrad_alert_bot Telegram bot.
Analytics with decision visibility
A click and campaign analytics dashboard that shows which filter made each decision, rather than a bare allowed/blocked counter.
Regional servers & IP stack
IPv4 and IPv6 including mixed-stack environments; US / EU / ASIA server selection is an Advanced-tier feature.
REST API (Advanced)
api.masqrad.io/v1 exposes campaigns, metadata, template, integration and postback endpoints. The API is authenticated, so there is no public reference to read first.
Guest stat sharing
Password-protected sharing of campaign statistics, useful when a buyer team reports to an advertiser or team lead.
Unlimited traffic & campaigns
Paid plans are advertised as unlimited on both traffic and campaign count. Database update cadence is tiered - daily on Starter, real-time above it.
Payment-gateway cloaking
Listed as an Advanced-tier capability. No further technical detail is published about how it works.
Referrals & bonuses
A referral programme pays out on referred subscription payments, convertible to subscription days or cash. A bonuses page carries partner promo codes (Afina antidetect browser, Spyhouse spy service).
How it is deployed
MASQRAD is not a zero-infrastructure SaaS. The FAQ states that "Integration requires only uploading a small PHP script or using your custom domain", and the dashboard supplies a downloadable masqrad.php / index.php file. You bring the domain, the SSL certificate and the hosting.
Published requirements
- · PHP 5.6 minimum, 8.1+ recommended
- · HTTPS required
- · Extensions: curl, json, openssl, mbstring, filter
- · Outbound HTTP(S) allowed, POST requests allowed
- ·
index.phpmust not be aggressively cached - · Cloudflare CDN is explicitly allowed under those conditions
That is a low bar for shared hosting or a small VPS, but it means setup, uptime and failure modes sit partly on you. If your host caches index.php or blocks outbound requests, the filter fails on your side, not theirs.
Plans and pricing
MASQRAD publishes full public pricing on masqrad.io/pricing. Three monthly tiers, each also billable on 3-month and 6-month terms. Figures verified 24.07.2026.
- Basic Ad Bot Protection (User-Agent & IP database detection)
- Ad moderation protection (IP-based detection)
- Protection against simple bots, crawlers and abusers
- Flexible filters
- DDoS protection
- Click-fraud protection
- Detailed analytics
- Unlimited traffic
- Unlimited campaigns
- Daily database updates
- Smart cloaking with adaptive AI traffic analysis
- In-app cloaking (WebView / App / PWA)
- JS fingerprint analysis (~150 signals)
- Quick browser verification (headless & emulator detection)
- Cohort analysis (base models)
- Google Privacy Proxy detection
- Advanced ad-moderation protection (device fingerprint intelligence)
- Brand monitoring protection (BrandVerity, AdPolice and other ad-compliance scanners)
- Campaign health monitoring & instant alerts
- Real-time database updates
- Advanced cloaking with deep intelligent traffic analysis
- Cloaking payment gateways
- JS fingerprint analysis (400+ signals)
- Deep browser verification (patched browsers, stealth plugins & fingerprint spoofing detection)
- Cohort analysis (deep anomaly intelligence)
- Advanced high-risk bot protection
- Residential proxy detection
- Red-screen protection
- Regional server selection (US / EU / ASIA)
- Guest access to campaign statistics (password-protected sharing)
- REST API access
Prices are quoted in USD as a monthly subscription - $199 (Starter), $299 (Professional) and $499 (Advanced) - with 3-month and 6-month billing terms also offered on each tier.
Payment is taken in cryptocurrency. The FAQ states MASQRAD "accepts cryptocurrency payments in over 50+ major coins including USDT, USDC, BTC, ETH, BNB, TRX", and the pricing section shows BTC, ETH, USDT-TRC20, XMR and LTC. Checkout is on-chain: send the amount on a named network, confirmed automatically by the blockchain. Promo codes are supported. There are no cards, no PayPal, no bank transfer and no invoicing.
The Terms (last updated 22.11.2025) state that purchases are final. The team tells us that in practice they do issue refunds where there is a genuine service problem, and that only one or two such cases have arisen in the life of the service - so the clause reads stricter than how it is applied, though no formal refund window is published. Final-sale wording is common across crypto-checkout cloaking vendors. Internal plan codes include FREE (shown as "Inactive") and TRIAL (mapping to the PRO feature set), but no trial terms are published on the public site.
Who it fits
A reasonable fit for
- · Affiliate and media-buying teams already running their own domains, SSL and PHP hosting
- · Buyers who want per-campaign granularity (25 filters, five modes, split tests, UTM and geo rules) rather than a single on/off switch
- · Teams that live in Telegram and want campaign-health alerts pushed there
- · Operators paying in crypto who are comfortable with a non-refundable, no-paperwork purchase
- · Russian-, Ukrainian-, Chinese- or Brazilian-Portuguese-speaking teams - all five locales are fully translated
A poor fit for
- · Any company that needs invoices, VAT paperwork or card payment
- · Teams requiring a contractual SLA with service credits or a public status page
- · Anyone who needs to read API docs before committing - the reference is behind auth
- · Advertisers who must stay inside Google, Meta or TikTok ad policy (see below)
Things to know before you buy
Stated plainly, and measured against how this category actually operates rather than against enterprise SaaS norms. None of these are dealbreakers; together they define who this suits.
Crypto checkout, 50+ coins
Payment is on-chain across 50+ coins including USDT, USDC, BTC, ETH, BNB, TRX and XMR, confirmed automatically by the blockchain, with promo codes supported. Crypto-first checkout is the norm among cloaking vendors rather than an outlier. There are no cards, PayPal or bank invoicing, so teams that need VAT paperwork are not the target buyer.
Headline numbers are vendor-stated
5+ billion IP records, 500,000+ residential moderator IPs, 400+ fingerprint signals, models "trained on millions of visits" - published without methodology or third-party audit. This is standard across cloaking vendors, none of whom publish audited detection rates, so treat the figures as positioning rather than measurement.
Support runs through Telegram
Support is handled at @masqrad_support, which is the normal channel for this category. There is no ticket system or public status page, and "priority support" appears as a paid-tier bullet without a defined response time.
Documentation is not publicly readable
The site is a client-rendered React SPA - the server returns a ~1.3 KB HTML shell and all copy, docs, Terms and Privacy text ship inside a 5.7 MB JavaScript bundle. Docs only render behind client-side routing, and there is no public API reference. robots.txt allows everything, but there is no real sitemap.xml or llms.txt.
Several footer links go nowhere
Tutorials, Blog, About, Careers, Contact and Partners appear as labels rather than real destinations, and the footer social icons are generic placeholder glyphs, not links to actual profiles.
You host the failure surface
This is not zero-infrastructure SaaS. You supply the domain, SSL and PHP hosting or VPS, and you upload and maintain their script. Setup and part of the failure modes are yours to own.
One European ISP currently sinkholes the domain
From our test machine, a Lithuanian ISP filter (Bite/Labas "Interneto apsauga") DNS-sinkholes masqrad.io to a malware warning page. The real site loads normally over public DNS and Cloudflare, so this reads as an ISP heuristic block rather than the site being down - but some users and office networks will not reach it without changing DNS.
The category risk, stated plainly
Cloaking exists to show ad-network reviewers different content than real users see. That is a direct violation of Google, Meta and TikTok advertising policies regardless of what is being promoted, and it can cost you accounts, spend and business relationships. Any review that does not say this out loud is not being useful.
MASQRAD's own Terms push the consequences onto the customer: the company states it "does NOT host, store, serve, publish, or control any user-generated content", and its Privacy FAQ says "We do not ask what you promote, and we do not run background reviews on your content. Masqrad operates as a neutral traffic-classification engine." The flip side of that neutrality is that liability for bans, complaints and legal claims lands on you.
The Terms do draw a line: they explicitly forbid using the cloaker to hide phishing pages, fake login pages, credential harvesting, brand impersonation, scam or fraud funnels and malicious redirects. The Privacy policy states data may be processed in the EU, US or other jurisdictions, and the service is intended for users 18+.
PROXIES.SX lists this partner as a review, not an endorsement of policy evasion. Read the ad-network terms you operate under and decide for yourself.
Using MASQRAD with PROXIES.SX mobile proxies
These two products sit on opposite sides of the connection, which is worth being precise about. MASQRAD classifies inbound visitors arriving at a landing page you host. PROXIES.SX supplies outbound 4G/5G mobile and residential IPs for the work you do before traffic reaches that page. Neither replaces the other, and neither is a way around the other.
MASQRAD
Landing layer - decides per request whether a visitor sees the white page or the offer page.
PROXIES.SX
Network layer - 4G/5G mobile carrier and residential IPs for account work, geo checks and QA. Endpoints are free; you pay per GB from $4/GB down to $2.40/GB at volume, and GB never expire.
One thing to plan for
MASQRAD ships explicit Proxy, Datacenter, VPN and residential-proxy filters, and its feature list names LTE-rotation-abuse detection. That means your own proxied QA visits can legitimately be classified as filtered traffic when you check how your funnel renders from another country. Before you conclude a page is broken, confirm whether MASQRAD filtered your test click - the analytics dashboard shows which filter made the decision - and use its IP or visit-limit rules to carve out your own testing addresses. We are not claiming our IPs pass any given cloaker; we are saying test with the decision log open.
Verdict
On feature surface, MASQRAD is competitive with the better-known cloakers: five cloaking modes including a dedicated In-App mode, 25 custom filters covering VPN, Tor, datacenter, iCloud Private Relay, Google Privacy Proxy, Satellite and Security Labs, two-depth browser verification, ML risk scoring, campaign health monitoring with Telegram alerts, and a REST API on the top tier. Five fully translated locales, a low PHP hosting bar, and clearly published pricing ($199 / $299 / $499 per month) are real practical strengths - and public per-tier pricing is not something every vendor in this category offers. MASQRAD also carries a vetted marketplace listing and buyer feedback on BlackHatWorld, so there is independent signal beyond the vendor's own site. The honest caveats are the ones that apply broadly here: the headline scale figures are vendor-stated with no published methodology, the full API reference only renders behind login, and checkout is crypto-only, so teams that need cards, invoices or VAT paperwork are not the target buyer. The Terms say purchases are final, though the team reports issuing refunds in the rare cases of a genuine problem. And be clear-eyed about the category itself - cloaking violates the ad policies of every major network, and MASQRAD's Terms leave those consequences with you.
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MASQRAD facts in this review reflect the platform's own public site, FAQ, Terms of Service (last updated 22.11.2025) and Privacy policy at time of writing, verified via masqrad.io. Feature counts, cloaking modes, filter names, system requirements and language support come from the product's own interface copy and configuration. Pricing is published publicly at masqrad.io/pricing - Starter $199/mo, Professional $299/mo and Advanced $499/mo, each also billable on 3- and 6-month terms - verified from the pricing page on 24.07.2026; scale claims such as 5+ billion IP records, 500,000+ moderator IPs and 400+ fingerprint signals are vendor claims we could not independently verify, and are labelled as such rather than repeated as fact. Cloaking violates the advertising policies of Google, Meta, TikTok and other major networks; this review is an assessment, not an endorsement of policy evasion, and readers are responsible for complying with the terms of any platform they advertise on. Outbound links to masqrad.io and Telegram use rel="nofollow sponsored noopener noreferrer".