--- title: "Bot management vendors: 23 vendor profiles | Agent Ready Crawlers" description: "Bot management vendors: 23 profiles with standards, dated prices, sources and what each does not do. 14 of 23 document support for Web Bot Auth." canonical: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/by-type/bot-management site: "Agent Ready Crawlers" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendors" --- # Bot management vendors: 23 vendor profiles | Agent Ready Crawlers > Bot management vendors: 23 profiles with standards, dated prices, sources and what each does not do. 14 of 23 document support for Web Bot Auth. Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/by-type/bot-management Site: Agent Ready Crawlers Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 Vendors by type # Bot management vendors In short 23 bot management vendors are profiled, from CDNs such as Akamai and Cloudflare to detection specialists such as Kasada and Verisoul. 14 of 23 document support for Web Bot Auth, 7 for published IP lists and 4 for reverse DNS. The 23 bot management vendors run alphabetically from Akamai to Verisoul, and carry 181 sourced facts between them. The price models on record include sales-led; per web ACL plus per request; monthly plan plus usage; usage-based plans; quoted per deployment; and 13 more. 1 profile carries our own probes of key directories or IP files. Each profile lists what the vendor does not do next to what it does. - [Crawler operators (31)](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/by-type/crawler-operator/) - [Bot management vendors (23)](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/by-type/bot-management/) - [Verification providers (11)](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/by-type/verification-provider/) - [Licensing intermediaries (8)](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/by-type/licensing-intermediary/) - [All 73](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/) | Vendor | Type | What it does for this layer | Standards supported | Pricing model | Our check | Last read | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Akamai | Bot management | CDN and security company whose Bot & Agent Control solutions judge AI agents at the edge, take identity from Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol and Know Your Agent tokens, and send AI traffic to TollBit or Skyfire for paid access. | 2 web-bot-auth, visa-tap | sales-led | Homepage HTTP 403 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | AWS WAF Bot Control | Bot management | Cloud provider whose WAF Bot Control labels and verifies bots, checks Web Bot Auth signatures and can charge AI bots with HTTP 402, and whose AgentCore Browser signs its own agent traffic with Web Bot Auth. | 2 web-bot-auth, ip-list | per web ACL plus per request | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Arcjet | Bot management | Developer security SDK for JavaScript, Python and Go that detects bots inside application code, lets developers allow or deny named bots or categories such as CATEGORY:AI, and adds runtime guards for agent frameworks. | 2 ip-list, reverse-dns | monthly plan plus usage | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Castle | Bot management | Bot and account abuse API whose risk responses include an agent object that names AI agents and browser automation, identified by a verified Web Bot Auth signature, a browser fingerprint or a user-agent string. | 1 web-bot-auth | usage-based plans | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Centinel Analytica | Bot management | Bot and AI crawler protection vendor whose edge integration verifies declared search and AI crawlers against operators' published IP ranges and detects scrapers that run real browsers behind residential proxies. | 1 ip-list | quoted per deployment | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Cequence Security | Bot management | Application and API protection vendor whose Bot Management includes Agent Trust for personal AI shopping agents, and whose AI Gateway governs enterprise agents' tool calls behind OAuth 2.1 authentication. | 0 | sales-led | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Cloudflare | Bot management | Connectivity cloud whose AI Crawl Control, Bot Management and verified bot program sort crawlers by purpose, verify them by IP list or Web Bot Auth signature, and let site owners charge crawlers per request in a private beta. | 5 rfc9309, web-bot-auth, content-signals, ip-list, cloudflare-verified-bots | included in every plan; site owner sets one per-request price; 1 more | Homepage HTTP 200, 1 probe 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | DataDome | Bot management | Bot and fraud protection vendor whose Agentic Trust layer names each AI agent, rates how strong that identification is, applies per-agent and per-endpoint policies, and hands chosen agents to TollBit for paid access. | 3 web-bot-auth, ip-list, reverse-dns | monthly, by request volume | Homepage HTTP 403 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | F5 | Bot management | Application delivery and security company whose Distributed Cloud Bot Defense puts humans, trusted AI agents and malicious bots under one policy, accepts Web Bot Auth and Skyfire's Know Your Agent tokens, and runs on F5's platform, BIG-IP or public cloud. | 1 web-bot-auth | sales-led | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Fastly | Bot management | Edge cloud vendor whose Bot Management adds edge detection (ContentGuard), TLS fingerprinting, client challenges and a verified bots signal, with separate AI crawler and AI fetcher signals for training bots and user-triggered fetchers. | 0 | contact sales | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Fingerprint | Bot management | Device intelligence vendor whose Bot Detection and Authorized AI Agent Detection signals separate good bots, bad bots and AI agents, and verify signed agents from providers such as OpenAI, AWS AgentCore and Browserbase. | 1 web-bot-auth | monthly plan plus usage | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Google Cloud Fraud Defense | Bot management | Google Cloud's bot and fraud service, the evolution of reCAPTCHA, which verifies AI agents by Web Bot Auth signature or by user agent matched to published IP ranges or reverse DNS, and reports verified and suspected agent sessions. | 3 web-bot-auth, ip-list, reverse-dns | per assessment | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | hCaptcha | Bot management | Bot detection and CAPTCHA vendor whose Enterprise Agent Controls identify AI agents, verify partner platforms that sign with Web Bot Auth, and let sites allow browsing while requiring verification before an agent reserves inventory. | 1 web-bot-auth | contact sales; monthly plus usage | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | HUMAN Security | Bot management | Bot and fraud defense vendor whose AgenticTrust module in Sightline names AI agents, grades them High, Medium or Low trust, verifies signed agents, and lets sites set what each agent may do from browsing to checkout. | 1 web-bot-auth | sales-led | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Imperva | Bot management | Application security vendor owned by Thales whose Advanced Bot Protection sorts human, good bot and bad bot traffic across web, mobile and API; verified-agent controls so far ship in a controlled-availability Google Cloud offering. | 0 | sales-led, free trial | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Kasada | Bot management | Bot defense vendor founded in Sydney whose AI Agent Trust adds a verified agent directory with Web Bot Auth support and endpoint-level access rules, enforced at the edge before automated traffic reaches the application. | 1 web-bot-auth | sales-led | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Known Agents | Bot management | Agent analytics and access-control service, formerly Dark Visitors, that identifies AI agents and crawlers from server-side data, keeps an automatic robots.txt current, and blocks bots that ignore it or spoof trusted identities. | 1 rfc9309 | monthly by events | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Link11 | Bot management | German security provider whose WAAP platform joins WAF, API security, Bot Management and Web DDoS protection, with a setting to monitor or block AI crawlers; the reblaze.com domain now redirects to Link11. | 0 | sales-led | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Netacea | Bot management | Server-side bot protection vendor that integrates at the CDN or load balancer without client code, classifies humans, good bots, bad bots and AI agents, and enforces access by intent rather than declared identity. | 0 | sales-led | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Netlify | Bot management | Web hosting platform that blocks chosen AI crawlers by user-agent string through an Edge Function extension and offers IP, geography and header-based traffic rules and rate limiting; it does not verify bot identity. | 0 | plan-based | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Radware | Bot management | Application security vendor whose Bot Manager and Agent Trust Management identify Web Bot Auth-compliant and non-compliant agents, capture an agent's declared intent in conversation, and restrict actions such as login or checkout. | 1 web-bot-auth | sales-led | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Vercel | Bot management | Hosting platform whose firewall verifies known bots by IP, reverse DNS and Web Bot Auth, offers an AI Bots managed ruleset that treats AI crawlers and AI assistants separately, and sells BotID checks for high-value routes. | 3 web-bot-auth, ip-list, reverse-dns | included; per call | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | | Verisoul | Bot management | Fake account and fraud detection platform whose Agent & Bot Detection names AI agents by signature, self-declared user agent or inference, and whose public Agent Atlas documents how each agent shows up on a site. | 1 web-bot-auth | sales-led, 30-day trial | Homepage HTTP 200 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-05 | ## Sources - [The full vendor list (this site)](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/) read 2026-11-04 - [Akamai: akamai.com](https://www.akamai.com) read 2026-11-05 - [AWS WAF Bot Control: aws.amazon.com](https://aws.amazon.com/waf/features/bot-control/) read 2026-11-05 - [Arcjet: arcjet.com](https://arcjet.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Castle: castle.io](https://castle.io) read 2026-11-05 - [Centinel Analytica: centinelanalytica.com](https://www.centinelanalytica.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Cequence Security: cequence.ai](https://www.cequence.ai) read 2026-11-05 - [Cloudflare: cloudflare.com](https://www.cloudflare.com) read 2026-11-05 - [DataDome: datadome.co](https://datadome.co) read 2026-11-05 - [F5: f5.com](https://www.f5.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Fastly: fastly.com](https://www.fastly.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Fingerprint: fingerprint.com](https://fingerprint.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Google Cloud Fraud Defense: cloud.google.com](https://cloud.google.com/security/products/recaptcha) read 2026-11-05 - [hCaptcha: hcaptcha.com](https://www.hcaptcha.com) read 2026-11-05 - [HUMAN Security: humansecurity.com](https://www.humansecurity.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Imperva: imperva.com](https://www.imperva.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Kasada: kasada.io](https://www.kasada.io) read 2026-11-05 - [Known Agents: knownagents.com](https://knownagents.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Link11: link11.com](https://www.link11.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Netacea: netacea.com](https://netacea.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Netlify: netlify.com](https://www.netlify.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Radware: radware.com](https://www.radware.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Vercel: vercel.com](https://vercel.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Verisoul: verisoul.ai](https://www.verisoul.ai) read 2026-11-05 Last reviewed 2026-11-05