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Compare click trackers (2026)
The real differences between click trackers aren't the dashboards - they're the price floor, how much plumbing you set up (pixels, postbacks, custom domains), and whether the tool shows you which clicks were actually real. This page lines up Kilo Trace against ClickMagick, Voluum, and RedTrack on exactly those points.
Competitor details verified July 2026 - check their pricing pages for changes. Kilo Trace classifies click quality on every plan and can block high-confidence datacenter and bot traffic per link on Pro.
Side by side
What actually differs
Entry price, the setup each tool needs, and whether it shows you which clicks were real - plus who filters bots, and how.
| Feature | Kilo Trace | ClickMagick | Voluum | RedTrack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price / mo | Free $0, then $39 | $79 (Starter) | from $149 (Profit) | $79 (Builder) |
| Free tier (not a trial) | Yes - classifies every click | No - 14-day trial | No - trial only | Free CAPI relay only |
| Per-click quality verdict (datacenter / proxy / human) | Every click, all plans | Bot filter, not a 3-way split | Anti-fraud metrics | Fraud + bot flags |
| Per-sub-ID quality breakdown | Yes | Sub-IDs + account-level fraud | Yes, with anti-fraud metrics | Yes |
| Bot blocking | Opt-in per link (Pro+) | Yes - filters bots | Yes - Anti-Fraud Kit | Yes - blocks known bots |
| Pixel / postback to set up | None - the link measures | Pixels + postbacks | Postbacks / pixels | Pixels / CAPI |
| Routing rules at the edge | Yes, in the 302 | Rotators + geo rules | Paths + rule engine | Rules + rotations |
| Custom domains | Yes (bring your own) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes, API-first | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Redirect speed | ~50 ms edge 302 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
Honestly
What each tool does well
Each of these is a capable tracker with a genuine strength. Here is what it is, what it costs to get there, and when Kilo Trace is the better fit.
ClickMagick
ClickMagick pricing ↗ClickMagick has mature bot filtering and funnel tracking. Its filters remove a large share of automated clicks from your stats, and its link-level tools - rotators, split tests, funnel and cross-device attribution - are well worn by affiliates who have relied on them for years.
The entry Starter plan is $79/mo for 10,000 tracked visitors, on a 14-day trial rather than a free tier. Basic bot filtering is on Starter; the fuller "Bot & Click Fraud Protection" sits on the $199/mo Standard plan.
Choose Kilo Trace instead when you want the quality split as evidence at $0 to $39, without wiring up pixels and postbacks. Kilo Trace classifies every click into datacenter, VPN/proxy, or likely human and shows the split per link and per sub-ID, on the free tier. Both tools can filter bots - ClickMagick by default, Kilo Trace as an opt-in, per-link switch on Pro - but Kilo Trace shows you the full split first and blocks only the clear-cut datacenter and bot hits, leaving VPNs labeled rather than removed.
Voluum
Voluum pricing ↗Voluum is built for scale. Its traffic-source integrations, path and rule engine, and reporting handle large affiliate operations, and its Anti-Fraud Kit - datacenter detection, fast-click metrics, and a honeypot that flags bots - is genuinely deep.
Voluum has no free tier. The entry Profit plan starts at $149/mo for up to a million events, and an "event" counts visits, clicks, and conversions together, so busy campaigns spend the budget quickly.
Choose Kilo Trace instead when a million-event plan is more machinery than you need and you want a plain per-click verdict without postback plumbing. The classifier runs inside the redirect, so there is no pixel on your page and no event budget to model - and the free tier still shows the split.
RedTrack
RedTrack pricing ↗RedTrack's strength is breadth: 200-plus integrations, CAPI relays, automation, and fraud detection that blocks blacklisted bots and hides landing pages from them. For a media buyer juggling many networks, that integration surface is hard to match.
The entry Builder plan is $79/mo for 2 million events, on a 14-day trial. A free "Relay" product exists, but it only forwards conversions for one store and one user with no attribution - it is not a free tracker.
Choose Kilo Trace instead when you want to see which clicks were real without standing up postbacks and CAPI first. Append a sub_id to any link and read the datacenter / proxy / human split per source, starting on the free tier.
Where Kilo Trace fits
The evidence, without the plumbing
Kilo Trace classifies every click at the edge - datacenter, VPN or proxy, likely human - on every plan including Free. Append a sub_id per placement and the split breaks down per source, so you can see which invoice to question.
There is no pixel and no script: the link itself does the measuring, and the redirect still resolves in about 50 ms. The API is the same one the dashboard runs on - if the dashboard can do it, your integration can.
Raw IP addresses are never stored anywhere. IP-derived data is hashed with a rotating pepper before anything reaches storage, so you get the aggregate verdict without keeping a trail back to a person.
FAQ
Straight answers
Is there a free ClickMagick alternative?
Kilo Trace has a permanent free tier that classifies every click into datacenter, VPN/proxy, or likely human, per link and per sub-ID. ClickMagick, Voluum, and RedTrack start at $79 to $149/mo; RedTrack's only free product is a conversion relay, not a tracker, and the others offer 14-day trials rather than a free tier.
Do I need a pixel to track click quality?
Not with Kilo Trace. The classification happens inside the redirect, so there is nothing to install on your destination page - no pixel, no script, no postback. Most trackers lean on pixels and postbacks to attribute conversions; Kilo Trace measures the click as it passes through the link.
Does Kilo Trace block bots?
Now it can, if you switch it on. Classification is always on and every plan sees the datacenter/proxy/human split; on Pro and up you can additionally turn on blocking for a link - off by default - so high-confidence datacenter and known-bot traffic gets a verification page instead of your destination. VPN and proxy traffic stays labeled, not blocked, because much of it is real people. ClickMagick, Voluum's Anti-Fraud Kit, and RedTrack filter bots too, several of them by default; the Kilo Trace difference is that you see the full split as evidence first and choose when to filter.
What is the cheapest click tracker that shows traffic quality?
For seeing click quality specifically, Kilo Trace's free tier classifies every click and Pro is $39/mo - below ClickMagick and RedTrack's $79 floor and Voluum's $149. Every plan sees the split, and Pro can also block high-confidence datacenter and bot traffic per link. Those tools filter invalid traffic too, several of them by default.
Do these trackers show which clicks were real?
They approach it differently. ClickMagick, Voluum, and RedTrack detect and filter invalid traffic to clean your stats. Kilo Trace shows you the verdict directly - a datacenter / VPN-proxy / likely-human split on every click, per link and per sub-ID - so the evidence is in front of you first; on Pro you can then choose to block the clear-cut datacenter and bot traffic per link, while VPNs stay labeled rather than removed.
How fast is the redirect?
Kilo Trace redirects are edge 302s in about 50 ms, and the click is classified in the same pass without slowing it down. The other trackers don't publish a redirect-speed number.
Put one real link through it.
The free tier classifies every click. Share a link where you already share links and read the split tomorrow.