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title: "Kasada vs Vercel | Agent Ready Crawlers"
description: "Kasada vs Vercel: rubric grades side by side, the sourced difference and verdicts for platform engineers, security engineers and publisher ops."
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# Kasada vs Vercel | Agent Ready Crawlers

> Kasada vs Vercel: rubric grades side by side, the sourced difference and verdicts for platform engineers, security engineers and publisher ops.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/compare/kasada-vs-vercel-botid
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

Head-to-head

# Kasada vs Vercel

In short

Kasada powers Vercel BotID Deep Analysis, sold by Vercel at USD 1 per 1,000 checkBotId() calls on Pro; Kasada itself is sales-led and adds an AI agent directory and edge policies. On per-purpose policy the rubric grades Kasada partial and Vercel yes. For a security engineer: Kasada direct adds Web Bot Auth directory and endpoint policies; BotID returns verified-bot fields.

## The sourced difference

Kasada powers Vercel BotID Deep Analysis, sold by Vercel at USD 1 per 1,000 checkBotId() calls on Pro; Kasada itself is sales-led and adds an AI agent directory and edge policies. [Source](https://vercel.com/docs/botid), read 2026-11-04.

## Side by side

| Question | Kasada | Vercel |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tells a verified agent from a spoof | Yes; Web Bot Auth plus Kasada's verified agent directory | Yes; IP, reverse DNS and Web Bot Auth; directory at bots.fyi |
| Per-purpose policy (train, search, answer, act) | Partial; endpoint-level access policies per verified agent; no published search versus training split (checked 2026-11-04) | Yes; AI crawlers and AI assistants handled separately since 2026-10-29 |
| Charging for access | Not published; support (checked 2026-11-04) | 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 | published: Basic free; Deep Analysis USD 1 per 1,000 checks on Pro |
| Reporting | Yes; Kasada Portal and Custom Reporting for verified agent activity | Yes; Firewall tab BotID filter and Observability Plus metrics |
| Where it runs | edge: enforcement upstream of origin | both: managed rulesets at Vercel's edge firewall; BotID verdict read in server code via checkBotId() |
| Points, rank | 5 of 10, rank 9 | 6 of 10, rank 6 (tied) |
| Price read 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. | BotID Basic free on all plans; Deep Analysis USD 1 per 1,000 checkBotId() calls on Pro, custom on Enterprise; AI Bots managed ruleset on all plans. |

## Verdicts by reader

Platform engineer

On Vercel you get Kasada's detection without a separate contract.

Security engineer

Kasada direct adds Web Bot Auth directory and endpoint policies; BotID returns verified-bot fields.

Publisher operations

Neither charges bots.

## What each does not do

### 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).

### Vercel

-   No charging or pay-per-crawl for AI crawlers (BotID and firewall docs read 2026-11-04).
-   BotID Deep Analysis is not on the Hobby plan; it is listed for Pro and Enterprise only (BotID pricing table).
-   BotID does not inspect passive page views; it only runs where the app calls checkBotId() (BotID docs).

More: [alternatives to Kasada](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/kasada/alternatives/), [alternatives to Vercel](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/vercel-botid/alternatives/).

## Sources

-   [vercel.com: botid](https://vercel.com/docs/botid) read 2026-11-04
-   [kasada.io: kasada.io](https://www.kasada.io/) read 2026-11-04
-   [kasada.io: kasada launches ai agent trust to secure agentic commerce](https://www.kasada.io/kasada-launches-ai-agent-trust-to-secure-agentic-commerce/) read 2026-11-04
-   [vercel.com: vercels bot verification now supports web bot auth](https://vercel.com/changelog/vercels-bot-verification-now-supports-web-bot-auth) read 2026-11-04
-   [vercel.com: block ai crawlers and assistants independently with managed rules](https://vercel.com/changelog/block-ai-crawlers-and-assistants-independently-with-managed-rules) read 2026-11-04
-   [vercel.com: verified bots](https://vercel.com/docs/botid/verified-bots) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04