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Bot management vendor

Fingerprint

In short

Fingerprint's agent verification relies on signing providers: it says agents from five named providers, OpenAI among them, can be checked cryptographically, and it runs a public tester for RFC 9421 signatures. A site can pick a different treatment for agent traffic, from allowing it to throttling or blocking it. Bot signals are available only on Pro Plus and above.

Type
Bot management
Homepage
fingerprint.com
In one line
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.
Last read
2026-11-05

What Fingerprint does for this layer

From the vendor's own pages

Fingerprint says AI agents from OpenAI, AWS AgentCore, Browserbase, Manus and Anchor Browser can be cryptographically verified through its signed agent ecosystem. (fingerprint.com) Fingerprint's bot detection response marks a bot as good when it is a search engine or friendly crawler, and separates good bots, bad bots and AI agents. (fingerprint.com) Fingerprint hosts a Web Bot Authentication tester that verifies RFC 9421 HTTP Message Signatures from a browser or with a curl example. (fingerprint.com) Fingerprint's browser bot detection and other Smart Signals require the Pro Plus or Enterprise plan. (fingerprint.com)

Fingerprint's AI agent detection page shows a signed request with Signature-Agent "https://openai.com" and offers Allow, Enrich, Throttle and Block handling for agent traffic. (fingerprint.com) Fingerprint Pro Plus starts at USD 99 a month for 20,000 API calls, then USD 4 per 1,000 calls; the free plan covers up to 1,000 API calls a month. (fingerprint.com)

Claims the vendor makes about itself

Fingerprint claims Authorized AI Agent Detection identifies authorized agents with 100% certainty. (fingerprint.com) Fingerprint says it is trusted by more than 6,000 companies. (fingerprint.com)

Products and plans

ProductWhat it doesPrice modelFromAs of
Bot Detection (Smart Signal) Client-side detection of good bots, bad bots and AI agents through the Fingerprint JavaScript agent. monthly plan plus usage Pro Plus, 20K API calls included, then USD 4 per 1,000. USD 99 2026-11-05
Authorized AI Agent Detection Verification of agents signed by participating providers. No price recorded

Standards

StandardStatusEvidence
Web Bot Auth Supports Fingerprint verifies RFC 9421 signatures and offers a Web Bot Auth tester. (fingerprint.com)
Visa Trusted Agent Protocol No statement No statement on the Fingerprint pages read 2026-11-05.
Mastercard Agent Pay No statement No statement on the Fingerprint pages read 2026-11-05.

Our checks

CheckResultMethodDate
Homepage fetch HTTP 200 GET with the crawl user agent after a robots.txt check 2026-11-05

What Fingerprint does not do

  • Fingerprint does not block traffic at the CDN by itself; it returns signals from its JavaScript agent and API, with proxy integrations listed for Enterprise.
  • Fingerprint offers no AI crawler charging or licensing.

Sources

Last reviewed 2026-11-05