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# DataDome Q3: 25 billion agent requests | Agent Ready Crawlers

> DataDome Q3 report: 25 billion AI agent requests. It counted 29.1 million Muse requests in under two weeks without self-identification.

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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](https://helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/19/datadome-ai-agent-traffic-report), read 2026-11-04.

## Where it stands in the Index

[DataDome](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/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](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/meta-externalagent/)

Meta, training. Token `meta-externalagent`. Verification: none published. Refused by 16.0% of top-10,000 sites.

[Meta-WebIndexer](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/meta-webindexer/)

Meta, search index. Token `meta-webindexer`. Verification: none published.

[Muse](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/meta-muse/)

Meta, shopping agent. No robots.txt token. Verification: none published.

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## Sources

-   [helpnetsecurity.com: datadome ai agent traffic report](https://helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/19/datadome-ai-agent-traffic-report) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04