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Small-site owners on Hacker News describe the same fight: a contact form full of junk, a signup form running up an SMS bill for numbers that never convert. The fixes that hold up are boring: a hidden field, a free widget, a rate limit keyed to the account instead of the IP. Here is the order I would add them in, and where the real money risk hides.
Every vendor in this space says "book a demo." A handful say the number out loud. We read every pricing page ourselves, on the same day, and found three groups: free tools that cover most small sites, a metered middle tier whose bill rises with a bot flood, and an enterprise tier whose published contracts start at $45,960 a year.
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