Head-to-head
HUMAN Security vs Kasada
In short
Kasada launched AI Agent Trust on 2026-01-21 with a verified agent directory that supports Web Bot Auth; HUMAN's AgenticTrust grades agents by trust level and per-action permissions, without naming Web Bot Auth on the pages read. For a security engineer: Kasada enforces upstream of origin; HUMAN reports spoofed AI crawler user agents at 5.7 percent of such traffic.
The sourced difference
Kasada launched AI Agent Trust on 2026-01-21 with a verified agent directory that supports Web Bot Auth; HUMAN's AgenticTrust grades agents by trust level and per-action permissions, without naming Web Bot Auth on the pages read. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Side by side
| Question | HUMAN Security | Kasada |
|---|---|---|
| Tells a verified agent from a spoof | Yes per-request cryptographic keys (e.g. ChatGPT's published key), plus behavior and private signals; Web Bot Auth not named on pages read |
Yes Web Bot Auth plus Kasada's verified agent directory |
| Per-purpose policy (train, search, answer, act) | Yes per-action categories (content, engage, account creation, checkout, rate limit) by trust level |
Partial endpoint-level access policies per verified agent; no published search versus training split (checked 2026-11-04) |
| Charging for access | Partial through scraping monetization partners (TollBit logo on product page); no native charging found |
Not published support (checked 2026-11-04) |
| Lets signed commerce agents through | Not published Visa TAP or Mastercard Agent Pay support (checked 2026-11-04) |
Not published Visa TAP or Mastercard Agent Pay support (checked 2026-11-04) |
| Cost | no public price; sales-led | no public price; sales-led |
| Reporting | Yes user and session insights on agent actions, monthly State of Agentic Traffic benchmark |
Yes Kasada Portal and Custom Reporting for verified agent activity |
| Where it runs | platform: Sightline integrates with the customer's stack; exact deployment points not confirmed on pages read | edge: enforcement upstream of origin |
| Points, rank | 7 of 10, rank 5 | 5 of 10, rank 9 |
| Price read 2026-11-04 | no public price; sales-led (checked 2026-11-04) | no public price; sales-led (checked 2026-11-04). Indirectly, Vercel BotID Deep Analysis (powered by Kasada) costs USD 1 per 1,000 checkBotId() calls on Vercel Pro. |
Verdicts by reader
- Platform engineer
- Kasada says it can sit behind an incumbent bot manager; HUMAN integrates through Sightline.
- Security engineer
- Kasada enforces upstream of origin; HUMAN reports spoofed AI crawler user agents at 5.7 percent of such traffic.
- Publisher operations
- Neither publishes prices or AI charging.
What each does not do
HUMAN Security
- Medium-trust agents lack cryptographic verification, so HUMAN itself warns of false negatives (Trust Levels blog, 2026-09-02).
- No native pay-per-crawl; monetization is through partner tools (AgenticTrust page).
- No published price list (package plans page).
Kasada
- No monetization or pay-per-crawl feature in AI Agent Trust (launch post, 2026-01-21).
- No public price list (homepage read 2026-11-04).
- No published support for Visa TAP or Mastercard Agent Pay (pages read 2026-11-04).
More: alternatives to HUMAN Security, alternatives to Kasada.
Sources
Last reviewed 2026-11-04