An alternative to ScoreDetect
By BlockchainSignLast updated
ScoreDetect timestamps content on the SKALE blockchain and wraps it in a content-protection subscription: a WordPress plugin, Zapier automations, an API, and — on the enterprise tier — watermarking and takedown monitoring. If you publish continuously and want protection wired into that pipeline, it is a capable product. This page is about the different job.
What ScoreDetect is built for
ScoreDetect is aimed at people who publish a lot: marketers, content teams, creators running a site. The product assumes a stream of content and tries to protect all of it automatically. That is why the integrations matter more than the timestamp itself — the WordPress plugin fires on publish, Zapier connects it to whatever else you run, and the API lets you script it.
Certificates are cheap at volume because they run on SKALE, a chain with no gas fees. On their Pro plan, 100 certificates a month are included for a monthly fee, which works out to roughly eleven cents each.
Credit where it is due: that is a genuinely lower price per certificate than ours, and their integration surface is much larger than ours. If either of those is your deciding factor, they are the better fit and this page will not talk you out of it.
Where the two products diverge
The difference is not really technical. It is about what the product assumes you are protecting.
ScoreDetect assumes published content — things already on the internet, where the risk is someone copying them. Our customers bring the opposite: a design that has not been shown to anyone, a manuscript before submission, a deal document under NDA. The risk there is not scraping. It is that the file has to stay confidential and still be provable.
That leads to a few concrete differences.
| ScoreDetect | BlockchainSign | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Monthly subscription | One-time purchase of certificates |
| Cost | ~$0.11 per certificate at plan volume | $3.00–$9.99 per certificate, no recurring fee |
| Chain | SKALE | Ethereum mainnet |
| On-chain record | Checksum stored via the service | Your payload hash in its own transaction, readable on Etherscan |
| Verify without the vendor | Through their platform | Yes — the transaction stands alone |
| Integrations | WordPress, Zapier, API | None yet |
| Content monitoring | Yes, on Enterprise | No |
| Watermarking, takedowns | Yes, on Enterprise | No |
| Built for | A stream of published content | One document that matters |
The subscription question
A monthly plan is excellent value if you timestamp constantly. It is poor value if you timestamp four things a year, because you pay in the months you use nothing. At roughly $11 a month, a year costs about $132 whether or not you create a single certificate.
We sell certificates outright. They do not expire once created, and there is nothing to cancel. Credits are used when you choose to use them, within twelve months of purchase.
Independent verification
Our certificates put the payload hash into the input data of a dedicated Ethereum transaction. Anyone can open the transaction on Etherscan, click "View as UTF-8", and read it — no account, no client, no cooperation from us. If this company disappeared tomorrow, every certificate we have ever issued would still verify.
That is a design choice with a cost: one transaction per certificate is why we cannot reach eleven cents. It is also why the proof does not depend on our continued existence. Which of those matters more depends entirely on what you are protecting.
Be careful with the claims on both sides
ScoreDetect's marketing uses phrases like "prove ownership" and "creator authenticity". A timestamp does not do that. It proves a specific file existed by a specific time and has not changed since — existence and integrity, not authorship. We hold that line everywhere on this site, including here: see proof of existence vs proof of authorship.
This matters practically, not just pedantically. If you present a timestamp as proof of authorship and the other side knows better, you have weakened an otherwise strong piece of evidence.
Choose ScoreDetect if
- You publish frequently and want timestamping to happen automatically.
- You need the WordPress plugin, Zapier, or an API today.
- Cost per certificate is your deciding factor at volume.
- You want monitoring, watermarking or takedown support alongside proof.
Choose us if
- The file is confidential and must not be uploaded anywhere, including to us.
- You want a certificate that verifies on a public block explorer without any vendor.
- You timestamp occasionally and do not want a subscription running between uses.
- You would rather the marketing understated what the proof does than overstated it.