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Umwelt vs 51Degrees

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Umwelt compared with 51Degrees
DetailUmwelt logo Umwelt 51Degrees
What it doesAn epistemic state engine that tracks what each character knows, and how they learned it Device and IP intelligence APIs for developers
StageNot given Established
FoundedNot given 2010
Based inNot given GB
Pricing modelOpen source Freemium
PricingAGPL-3.0-only open source license. Commercial license available for closed-source products, services and hosted APIs. Free Play Exception covers free games, mods, interactive fiction and tabletop tools (excluding games with price, in-game purchases, ads, paid content or early access). Free plan: 10,000 monthly requests (cloud and on-premise); Essentials: €49 per month for 100,000 requests (cloud); Pro: €360 per month for 1,000,000 requests (cloud); Pro Plus: €680 per month for 5,000,000 requests (cloud); Bespoke: unlimited requests, custom terms (cloud and on-premise)
Key features
  • Tracks what each character knows and how they learned it
  • Prevents AI models from leaking story information or twists
  • Records confirmed history that is never deleted
  • Single portable .umw file for entire world state
  • Works across TypeScript, .NET, CLI and any language via JSON protocol
  • Query from any character's point of view at any moment in time
  • Performance of 55-65 microseconds per query with half a million holdings
  • Free Play Exception for non-commercial games and tabletop tools
  • Device Detection - identify device model, OS, browser, and hardware
  • IP Intelligence - location, network, carrier, and VPN detection
  • Bot detection and Human Confidence scoring
  • Geolocation and reverse geocoding powered by OpenStreetMap
  • Pipeline API for custom data services
  • 51Did Inspector tool to inspect identifiers
  • Prebid.js RTD module integration
  • Cloud and on-premise deployment options
  • Support for multiple programming languages
  • User-Agent Client Hints support
What makes it different
  • Separates world state from character knowledge to prevent narrative leakage
  • Guarantees written down with conformance testing across all clients
  • Idempotent writes ensure consistency across retries
  • Works without AI or can control what AI models are allowed to know
  • Open source with commercial licensing option for closed-source products
  • Fifteen years of expertise in device detection with proprietary data
  • Open source approach with published API source code
  • Flexible deployment with both cloud and on-premise options
  • Extensible Pipeline API for aggregating micro services
  • Freemium model with free tier offering 10,000 monthly requests
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)Not checked yet no change since last check64 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)417
Citation Flow (Majestic)1243
Referring domains (Majestic)1398

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