Vendor, ranked 9 of 15

Kasada

In short

Kasada's AI Agent Trust, launched on 21 January 2026, grades yes on agent verification and reporting and partial on per-purpose policy, for 5 of 10 points. It has no monetization or pay-per-crawl feature, commerce agents are not published, and the price is available only through sales.

Bot defense vendor that added AI Agent Trust in January 2026: a verified agent directory with Web Bot Auth support, trust-based access policies enforced at the edge, and agent reporting in the Kasada Portal. Vendor description of itself, checked against its documents on 2026-11-04.

Alternatives to Kasada · kasada.io

Type: Bot management
Based in: Australia
Homepage: kasada.io
Last read: 2026-11-05

The rubric, with evidence

Question	Grade	What the vendor documents	Evidence
Tells a verified agent from a spoof	Yes	Web Bot Auth plus Kasada's verified agent directory	Launch post names Web Bot Auth support in the directory. Source, read 2026-11-04.
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)	Homepage describes endpoint-level policies. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Charging for access	Not published	support (checked 2026-11-04)	Launch post has no monetization feature. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Lets signed commerce agents through	Not published	Visa TAP or Mastercard Agent Pay support (checked 2026-11-04)	Not mentioned in launch post or homepage. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Cost	Not graded	no public price; sales-led	Homepage shows no prices. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Reporting	Yes	Kasada Portal and Custom Reporting for verified agent activity	Launch post reporting section. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Where it runs	Not graded	edge: enforcement upstream of origin	Launch post: real-time enforcement at the edge. Source, read 2026-11-04.

Cost

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. Source, read 2026-11-04.

What Kasada does not do

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).
Kasada publishes no price; its product pages lead to a demo request (read 2026-11-05).
Kasada's AI Agent Trust offers no paid access or licensing route for AI crawlers.

Documented facts

Features are as the vendor documents them; we have not tested them. A claim a vendor makes about itself is marked as a vendor claim.

Primary source Kasada launched AI Agent Trust on 21 Jan 2026 to give enterprises verified, policy-based control over AI agents and automated traffic. Source, read 2026-11-04, dated 2026-01-21.
Primary source AI Agent Trust has four parts: a verified bots and agent directory, policy-based agent access controls, real-time enforcement at the edge, and reporting. Source, read 2026-11-04, dated 2026-01-21.
Primary source The agent directory supports emerging standards such as Web Bot Auth. Source, read 2026-11-04, dated 2026-01-21.
Vendor claim Trust decisions are enforced upstream, before automated traffic reaches downstream systems, analytics or revenue. Source, read 2026-11-04, dated 2026-01-21.
Primary source Verified agent activity, including verification results, request patterns and endpoint interactions, shows in the Kasada Portal and in Custom Reporting. Source, read 2026-11-04, dated 2026-01-21.
Vendor claim Kasada's homepage says it verifies agent identity, detects impersonators and applies endpoint-level access policies without reducing every decision to allow or block. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Vendor claim Kasada says it can be deployed behind an incumbent bot-management provider. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Primary source Kasada powers the Deep Analysis tier of Vercel BotID. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Vendor claim Kasada says it was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Bot and Agent Trust Management Software, Q2 2026. Source, read 2026-11-04, dated 2026-06-15.

Compared with

HUMAN Security vs Kasada: Kasada launched AI Agent Trust on 2026-01-21 with a verified agent directory that supports Web Bot Auth; HUMAN's AgenticTrust grades agents by trust level and per-action permissions, without naming Web Bot Auth on the pages read.
Kasada vs Vercel: 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.
DataDome vs Kasada: DataDome publishes prices and monetization tiers; Kasada publishes none but says it can deploy behind an incumbent bot manager.
Kasada vs Akamai: Kasada says it can be deployed behind an incumbent bot manager; Akamai's Bot & Agent Control runs on Akamai's own edge with partner integrations for identity and charging.

What Kasada does for this layer

From the vendor's own pages

Kasada says it was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Sydney, with hubs in New York, Boston, Melbourne and San Francisco. (kasada.io) Kasada's AI Agent Trust launch post describes its directory as covering AI crawlers, assistants and agents, enriched with vendor identity and category data. (kasada.io, dated 2026-01-21) Kasada's homepage says its scraping protection verifies legitimate agents and gives each one access only to the endpoints the site owner approves. (kasada.io) Kasada publishes comparison pages against Akamai, Cloudflare and HUMAN Security from its homepage. (kasada.io)

Claims the vendor makes about itself

Kasada says its client-side code runs a full virtual machine with custom bytecode instead of obfuscated open-source JavaScript. (kasada.io) Kasada reports that in one deployment behind Akamai Bot Manager it classed 90% of requests as bad bots and saw a false-negative rate above 75% on traffic Akamai had allowed. (kasada.io) Kasada says it protects USD 150 billion of eCommerce and 250 million people daily. (kasada.io)

Products and plans

Product	What it does	Price model	From	As of
Bot Defense	Edge bot mitigation with obfuscated client-side checks.	sales-led Homepage leads to a demo request.	Not published	2026-11-05
AI Agent Trust	Verified agent directory, trust-based access policies, edge enforcement and agent reporting in the Kasada Portal.	No price recorded
Account Intelligence	Human fraud detection at the edge.	No price recorded

Standards

Standard	Status	Evidence
Web Bot Auth	Supports	AI Agent Trust's directory supports emerging standards such as Web Bot Auth. (kasada.io)
Visa Trusted Agent Protocol	No statement	No statement on the Kasada pages read 2026-11-05.
Mastercard Agent Pay	No statement	No statement on the Kasada pages read 2026-11-05.

Our checks

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

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Alternatives to Kasada (Bot Defense, AI Agent Trust) graded on the rubric

Sources

kasada.io: kasada.io read 2026-11-04
kasada.io: kasada.io read 2026-11-04
kasada.io: kasada launches ai agent trust to secure agentic commerce read 2026-11-04
vercel.com: botid read 2026-11-04
businesswire.com: en read 2026-11-04
About Us - Learn More About Our Company | Kasada read 2026-11-05
Kasada Launches AI Agent Trust to Secure Agentic Commerce - Kasada read 2026-11-05

Last reviewed 2026-11-05