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How to Score IPs in Real Time Without Slowing Down Your App

Speed and security are usually at odds. Most devs know the pain of bolting on fraud tools that grind their app to a halt. At CandycornDB, we’ve solved that problem. Here’s how we score IP addresses in real-time without introducing latency—or breaking your user flow.

The problem with traditional IP intelligence APIs

Legacy providers like MaxMind or AbuseIPDB were designed for static risk checking. They're built on slow lookups and large datasets that often live on disk, or worse, get stale. That means you're either:

CandycornDB’s architecture: purpose-built for performance

Our infrastructure uses an in-memory architecture and a hot-scored index to respond fast. Every query passes through a layered scoring engine that includes:

This allows us to return IP risk scores in under 150ms in most cases—faster than most DNS queries.

We don’t block good users

One of the biggest issues with other IP tools is false positives. CandycornDB was trained to be risk-graded—not binary. That means a Tor user isn’t automatically marked as malicious unless their behavior supports it. Our system adapts. It learns from behavioral clusters, subnet activity, and enrichment feedback from real-world usage.

Built to scale with your stack

Whether you’re calling our API from the edge, within your auth system, or as a pre-check in forms—we’ve designed it to be integration-light. Just pass an IP, get a score and metadata back, and make your decision instantly. No hand-holding, no onboarding teams, no sales calls.

Conclusion: You don’t have to choose between speed and security

With CandycornDB, real-time IP scoring becomes a drop-in layer of defense. Lightweight, fast, developer-friendly, and smart enough to evolve. If you care about conversion rates and abuse prevention, there’s no better balance on the market.

Start scoring IPs instantly — Free tier available, no credit card required.