Migrating

Map meaning before mapping fields

Choose the guide for your current provider, then compare its fields with the Synthient IP API schema. Similar names do not guarantee identical meanings. Review network classification, observed proxy providers, behavior categories, and risk scores separately before updating application rules.

Keep a representative set of addresses and expected application decisions for your migration checks. Include ordinary traffic, addresses with known anonymization signals, IPv6 addresses, and requests that return errors. Compare complete responses as well as the final decision your application makes; a single boolean can conceal a changed interpretation.

Roll out the integration

Configure authentication and verify your account scopes and quota before running a comparison. Update error handling, timeouts, and retry behavior alongside field mappings. Check rate limits rather than carrying over assumptions from the previous service.

Use the risk scoring guide when tuning thresholds. Do not assume that the same numeric cutoff has the same effect across vendors. Read the methodology to understand coverage limits and use service tags for provider identifiers.

Test the new integration on a limited traffic sample before a wider rollout. Record differences that affect real user decisions and contact support with a redacted example if you need help interpreting a response.