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Can an AI agent sign up and get a key on its own?

The door decides everything after it. Our agent signs up like a new customer, verifies the account and gets a key, and it signs every request so a bot check can tell who it is.

Our drives 1 Oct 2026 to 24 Oct 2026Every wall, product by productJSONMarkdown

Agent access, Get in: 54 of 151 products let our agent in on its own.

The numbers

Of the 151 products we drove, 1 Oct 2026 to 24 Oct 2026.

The checkpoints: sign up, then verify, then key.

Sign up

Can it create an account?

Verify

Can it verify the account?

Key

Can it get credentials?

What stops an agent at the door.

Where sign-up stops it

The walls

Bot checks 84 of 151Our agent got in another way at 10 more.
Sign-up or key only in a browser 2 of 151Our agent got in another way at 15 more.
Phone number at sign-up 6 of 151Our agent got in another way at 2 more.
Card before the first use 2 of 151Our agent got in another way at 4 more.
Email verification 3 of 151
Terms that forbid agent accounts 2 of 151Our agent got in another way at 3 more.

Each wall's page names the products behind it. Every wall, product by product

What our agent did on its own, step by step. Signed up: 45 of 151, Verified, of those that reached verification: 38 of 41, Got an API key: 49 of 151, First API or MCP call worked: 54 of 151, Made something real: 53 of 151.

Bot checks that stopped our agent: network check or challenge. Judged our network and browser: 56 of 94, A challenge on the form: 38 of 94.

Products that let our agent in on its own.

Every product it signed up for

How an agent says who it is.

Web Bot Auth

An agent signs each request; a site's bot check can verify who sent it.

19 of 151 products we drove offer it.

Signed agents

Agents a bot-check vendor has verified, which a site can let through.

7 of 10 products we drove offer it.

robots.txt for AI agents

The file that tells crawlers and agents which pages to leave alone.

14 of 151 products we drove offer it.

Studies and data.

Data story · 24 Oct 2026 · 151 products, 1–24 Oct 2026Do signed AI agents get past bot checks?A challenge on the sign-up form stopped our signed agent at 38 of 94 products where a bot check stopped it.Read Data story · 24 Oct 2026 · 148 products, 1–23 Oct 2026Can AI agents sign up for software? We drove 148Where sign-up stopped our agent first, a bot check was the reason at 83 of 92 products and a required card field at Fathom Analytics.Read Note · 24 Oct 2026 · 148 products, 1–22 Oct 2026AWS now lists DataDome and F5 for Web Bot AuthAWS lists DataDome and F5 for its signed agents. Cloudflare stopped our signed, unverified agent at 34 of 34 products where it met it.Read Note · 24 Oct 2026 · 140 products, 1–18 Oct 2026Cloudflare starts scoring how its listed bots behaveCloudflare says it rates Verified bots internally on robots.txt and HTTP 429s. It stopped our signed agent at 33 of 33 products where it met it.Read Report · 23 Oct 2026 · 148 products, 1–22 Oct 2026How far does an AI agent get in SaaS on its own? 148 testedNo product reached Autonomous: 27 run on their own, and five took our side's payment with no card.Read Data story · 21 Oct 2026 · 147 products, 1–20 Oct 20260 of 147 products let an AI agent finish the job alone100 of 147 products explain themselves to agents. Sign-up is where our agent stopped at 92 of 147 products, and payment lags furthest behind.Read

Every wall, product by product

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