Bot Butcher
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveREST API that classifies contact-form submissions as spam or not using a fine-tuned language model.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $1.99/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Free up to 10 requests/month. Starter is a flat $1.99/month for 11-100 requests. Above that a $1.99/month base plus $0.02 per request (1,000+ requests drops to $0.01 each).
Use tool ↗About Bot Butcher
Bot Butcher is an antispam endpoint for website contact forms. You POST the submitted message and it returns a JSON verdict on whether it is spam, using a fine-tuned language model rather than keyword rules or a CAPTCHA. It is aimed at vertical SaaS, multi-tenant apps and website builders that have to filter form traffic on behalf of many customers, and there is a no-code path plus a Postman collection for developers. Pricing is usage-based and starts near zero. The terms name Hillside Lab, with offices in Pasadena, California.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: 0–10 requests a month free; 11–100 a flat $1.99; 101–1,000 $1.99 plus $0.02 per request; 1,001+ $1.99 plus $0.01 per request (15 October 2026)botbutcher.com ↗
- Terms and Conditions name Hillside Lab with an office in Pasadena, California (15 October 2026)botbutcher.com ↗
Is Bot Butcher legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Sep 21, 2022 (4 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Nov 21, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Hillside Lab, United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Bot Butcher
A small, single-purpose API that does one thing spam filters historically do badly: judge free-text form messages by meaning rather than by keyword lists. Pricing is low enough to be irrelevant for most sites. The vendor's 99% accuracy figure is their own benchmark and there is no third-party evaluation to check it against.
Pros
- Plain REST endpoint returning JSON classifications, plus optional message retrieval
- Postman collection and a no-code integration path
- Usage pricing that starts free and tops out at cents per request
- Named legal entity with a US business address in the terms
Cons
- Vendor-run benchmark is the only accuracy evidence offered
- Judges submitted text only, so it will not stop automated traffic reaching your form
- No launch date, team or public changelog to gauge how maintained it is
Best for
- Website builders and multi-tenant SaaS filtering forms for many customers
- Replacing a CAPTCHA with a server-side check
- Low-volume sites where the free or $1.99 tier covers everything
Not for
- Blocking bots before submission (it judges the message, not the client)
- Anything beyond text: no image, link or account-level abuse scoring
Watch out: Above 100 requests a month the flat fee gives way to per-request billing, so a spam flood is a spam flood you pay for.