News from 2026-10-15
DataDome Q3 report: 25 billion AI agent requests
In short
15 October 2026: DataDome Q3 report: 25 billion AI agent requests. It counted 29.1 million Muse requests in under two weeks without self-identification. Figures via Help Net Security. DataDome's price: from USD 3,830/month. Meta-ExternalAgent is Meta's training crawler. Rows affected in this site: DataDome, Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-WebIndexer and Muse.
DataDome counted nearly 25 billion AI agent requests in Q3 2026, up 41.5 percent on the quarter, with Meta-ExternalAgent and Meta-WebIndexer at 49.7 percent. It counted 29.1 million Muse requests in under two weeks without self-identification. Figures via Help Net Security.
Secondary source helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/19/datadome-ai-agent-traffic-report, read 2026-11-04.
Where it stands in the Index
- DataDome
- Vendor. Bot and fraud protection vendor whose Agent Trust layer identifies AI agents, scores them per customer, applies per-agent policies and connects to monetization partners, with prices published from USD 3,830 per month.
- Meta-ExternalAgent
- Meta, training. Token
meta-externalagent. Verification: none published. Refused by 16.0% of top-10,000 sites. - Meta-WebIndexer
- Meta, search index. Token
meta-webindexer. Verification: none published. - Muse
- Meta, shopping agent. No robots.txt token. Verification: none published.
Sources
Last reviewed 2026-11-04