Adjust
Mobile measurement and analytics platform providing app install attribution, in-app event tracking, fraud prevention, and audience segmentation with a strong privacy-first and GDPR-compliant architecture.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
S2S event secret token provides an additional validation layer beyond the app token. IP allowlisting is recommended but optional. EU data residency option makes this a strong choice for GDPR-regulated apps. Long-lived bearer tokens with no rotation mechanism is a risk.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
A mobile app with multi-network paid UA needs privacy-compliant attribution with strong European data residency and GDPR tooling.
Avoid When
You need real-time raw event data or your attribution needs are simple enough for free tools like Firebase App Distribution tracking.
Use Cases
- • Automate campaign performance reporting by pulling cohort and KPI data via the KPI Service API into BI dashboards
- • Forward server-to-server events to Adjust for attribution without relying on the client SDK, enabling backend-only integrations
- • Use the Audience Builder API to create and export user segments for suppression lists or lookalike targeting in ad networks
- • Pull raw event data from the Datascape export API to load into a data warehouse for custom attribution modeling
- • Monitor anomaly detection alerts via webhook callbacks to auto-pause campaigns showing fraud signals above configured thresholds
Not For
- • Web analytics and SEO tracking — Adjust is mobile-first and does not replace tools like GA4 for web attribution
- • Apps without paid user acquisition spend — the attribution value is minimal without campaigns to attribute to
- • Real-time event streaming pipelines requiring sub-second latency — Adjust's data pipeline has processing delays
Interface
Authentication
API tokens are user-level or app-level depending on the API. KPI Service uses a bearer token. S2S event API uses the app token plus a secret event token for validation. Adjust recommends IP allowlisting for S2S endpoints. Bearer tokens are long-lived with no built-in rotation.
Pricing
Pricing is not publicly listed. Adjust acquired by AppLovin in 2021 but remains operationally independent. Data residency in EU is available as a configuration option for GDPR-sensitive use cases.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ KPI Service API requires date ranges in a specific format (YYYY-MM-DD) and returns empty data (not an error) for date ranges with no activity
- ⚠ S2S event validation uses an event secret token that is separate from the app token — omitting it causes silent event rejection on accounts with verification enabled
- ⚠ Callback URL (webhook) templates use Adjust placeholder macros (e.g., {idfa}) that are only substituted server-side — agents cannot test webhook payloads without live attribution events
- ⚠ Sandbox environment attribution does not always mirror production behavior for SKAN/privacy framework flows — agents tested only in sandbox may fail in production
- ⚠ Data export files from Datascape are compressed (gzip) — agents must decompress before parsing CSV content
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.