Bot detection & protection: block bad bots & malicious AI

Safeguard your websites, apps, APIs, & MCP servers with real-time bot mitigation. Stop bot attacks like scraping & account takeovers. Drive growth with trusted & verified agentic commerce.

Bot Protect

Bot protection that works on autopilot without compromising user experience

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Real-time threat detection

DataDome Bot Protect delivers highly accurate, real-time bot protection and prevention to safeguard your websites, mobile apps, APIs, and MCP servers. By analyzing over 5 trillion signals per day, our AI models provide continuous bot detection that instantly distinguishes between human users, legitimate AI agents, and malicious bots.

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Seamless edge defense

DataDome operates seamlessly at the edge, mitigating sophisticated attacks in under 2 milliseconds. This ensures your business remains secure from automated fraud without adding friction to genuine users—allowing your team to rely on automated bot mitigation while enabling trusted agent relationships.

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DataDome leads in bot detection

Discover why DataDome is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Bot Management Software with the highest overall score for current offering.

Benefits of Bot protection

Block bad bots & malicious AI to outsmart fraudsters. Ensure Agent Trust to drive new agentic business growth.

How DataDome bot protection works

DataDome Bot Protect operates on autopilot to deliver continuous, real-time protection.

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Integrate at the edge

Deploy DataDome Bot Protection seamlessly across your tech stack with 80+ pre-built integrations. Achieve fast time-to-value with setup measured in hours not days.

Analyze every request, every time

Stop relying on sampled data. DataDome Bot Protect analyzes every request, from page visits to user logins and cart requests, evaluating 100s of client-side and server-side signals to assess risk continuously throughout the user journey.

Detect with AI precision

Process over 5 trillion signals daily. Our AI-powered detection engine uses 1000+ OOTB and customer-specific models plus collective threat intelligence to deliver highly accurate bot detection, instantly distinguishing between human users, trusted AI agents, and malicious bots.

Mitigate on autopilot

Stop fraud instantly before it happens. High-risk traffic triggers automated bot mitigation—acting swiftly in line with your business flow—while maintaining a frictionless experience for real users with a < 0.01% false positive rate. No manual interventions that drag your team down.

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Key capabilities of bot protection

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Continuous, accurate detection accuracy

Analyze every request every time, not just a sample. DataDome continuously evaluates intent-based behavior throughout the user journey to ensure sophisticated attacks never bypass your bot protection. Maintain a <0.01 false positive rate.

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Ultra-low latency at the edge

Built for performance. DataDome Bot Protect operates at the edge across 35+ global PoPs, delivering precise bot detection in under 2 milliseconds so your app speed never suffers.

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Instant protection on auto-pilot

Trigger instant, automated responses aligned with your business logic. Our bot mitigation stops fraud instantly on auto-pilot.

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Easy-to-use, intuitive threat dashboard

Gain full visibility and control. Discover & onboard new endpoints with Watchtower. See threats by type over time. Get AI-powered takeaways by persona, or drill-down into specific attacks seamlessly. Monitor business performance metrics and measure ROI in real time. Build custom dashboards, saved views and reports.

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Agent trust management

Go beyond standard bot detection to identify, classify, score, and govern the behavior of agentic AI traffic interacting in real time with your digital assets. Agent Trust validates the identity and intent of AI agents in real time to establish trusted relationships and frictionless transactions with AI agents, users, and accounts.

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24/7 dedicated SOC Team

Stay ahead of zero-day attacks. Our expert-supervised AI models and dedicated 24/7 SOC team monitor your traffic around the clock to ensure continuous security. Strong partner with deep expertise to navigate fast-evolving threats.

Global data privacy compliance

Unmatched user privacy

Secure your application without compromising customer data. Our two-layer PII encryption ensures your bot prevention strategy exceeds standard GDPR and CCPA requirements.

Top bot protection use cases

Scraping
Content & LLM scraping

Prevent competitors and unauthorized LLMs from stealing your pricing, content, and IP. Effectively block malicious scrapers at the edge.

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Account takeover (ATO) prevention

Stop credential stuffing and brute-force attacks instantly. Protect user accounts and sensitive data with real time bot detection.

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Scalping & inventory hoarding

Ensure fair access for real customers. Rely on automated bot mitigation to stop scalper bots from depleting your high-demand inventory and tickets.

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Carding & payment fraud

Secure your checkout process. Halt automated credit card testing and reduce chargeback fees with highly accurate bot prevention.

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Layer 7 DDoS mitigation

Protect your infrastructure and maintain site reliability. Absorb and block massive, distributed botnet attacks that CDN providers miss before they can overwhelm your servers.

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Good bot management & agentic commerce

Safely enable and monetize AI traffic. Allow verified search crawlers and trusted AI agents to interact with your digital assets while keeping malicious automation out.

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“By preventing abuse by bad bots, Amway was able to save significant costs related to SMS verification. Within just one week, DataDome paid for itself.”

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“It was an easy decision. DataDome delivered the best value for money with the most accurate detection at the lowest price, with minimal additional latency on both mobile and web-based apps.”

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“To fight AI-driven bots, you have to understand what they’re trying to do, not just who they are. That is what DataDome helps us do.”

What else can DataDome protect for you?

Explore other solutions to keep your business safe. From preventing fraud to monetizing LLM crawlers, our AI-powered tools offer real-time defense.
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Experience everything DataDome

Schedule a demo of the DataDome platform to see how you can start blocking bad bots and preventing cyberfraud.

DataDome Bot Protect FAQ

What threats does DataDome Bot Protect stop?

DataDome Bot Protect blocks unwanted bot traffic and automated threats. It blocks threats such as LLM scraping & content theft, scalping, carding, Agentic AI, credential stuffing, account takeovers, and Layer 7 DDoS. It protects every layer of your digital business from bot-driven fraud and abuse.

Why do I need Bot Protect if I already have anti-bot capabilities in my WAAP or CDN?

Most WAAPs and CDNs offer basic bot protection using rules and IP signatures but fall short against advanced bots. DataDome Bot Protect delivers real-time, AI-powered defense across your entire infrastructure, not just CDN traffic, stopping even the most sophisticated and evasive attacks.

Can Bot Protect work with my existing CDN, WAAP, or app delivery infrastructure?

Yes. Bot Protect integrates seamlessly into your existing technology stack. With over 50 out-of-the-box integrations, it can be deployed on edge CDNs like Fastly, Cloudflare, Akamai, and CloudFront, or on server-side platforms including NGINX, F5, HAProxy, Envoy, and more.

How does Bot Protect detect bots?

Bot Protect uses multi-layered AI detection models, behavioral analysis, client and server-side signals, invisible challenges, Device Check, and device fingerprinting to detect and block bots in real time. CAPTCHAs can be optionally enabled by policy, presenting challenges to less than 0.01% of requests in extremely rare edge cases.

Does Bot Protect impact user experience or application performance?

Bot Protect does not impact user experience or application performance. It is completely frictionless to legitimate users and processes requests in under 2 milliseconds. With 30+ global points of presence (PoPs), Bot Protect inspects traffic at the edge near users, ensuring low latency and high availability across all regions. This architecture delivers seamless protection without disrupting the customer journey or slowing down your applications.

Can DataDome protect systems that use Agentic AI protocols?

Yes. DataDome protects any traffic over HTTP(S), making it fully compatible with MCP, ACP, A2A, and similar Agentic AI protocols. Because these protocols ultimately transmit standard web requests, DataDome can detect, classify, and stop malicious agentic activity.

How does Bot Protect differ from Agent Trust?

Bot Protect stops malicious bots and AI-powered attacks before they reach your infrastructure. Agent Trust goes a step further by helping you identify, verify, and build trusted relationships with legitimate AI agents—like customer-authorized shopping assistants or verified LLM crawlers—while blocking malicious ones. Together, they give you complete control: Bot Protect keeps the bad out, and Agent Trust lets the good in. Learn more about Agent Trust.

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