# 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.

Agent access, step by step: [Find](https://agentdrives.com/access/find.md) · Get in · [Use](https://agentdrives.com/access/use.md) · [Pay](https://agentdrives.com/access/pay.md) · [Leave](https://agentdrives.com/access/leave.md) · All five: https://agentdrives.com/access

Source: https://agentdrives.com/access/get-in · our drives, 1 Oct 2026 to 24 Oct 2026 · JSON: https://agentdrives.com/access/get-in.json · CC BY 4.0

**54 of 151** products let our agent in on its own. (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#door.own)

## The numbers

- Let our agent in on its own: 54 of 151 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#door.own)
- Let it sign up on its own: 45 of 151 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#signup.own)
- Gave it a key on its own: 49 of 151 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#key.own)
- Stopped it with a bot check on at least one way in: 94 of 151 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#bot.stopped)

## Sign up

Can it create an account?

- Signed up on its own: 45 of 151 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#signup.own)
- Without a browser: 6 of 151 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#signup.headless)
- In a browser: 39 of 151 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#signup.browser)

## Verify

Can it verify the account?

- Reached verification: 41 of 151 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#verify.reached)
- Verified on its own, of those that reached verification: 38 of 41 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#verify.own)

## Key

Can it get credentials?

- Got as far as the key: 57 of 151 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#key.reached)
- Got a key on its own, of those: 49 of 57 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#key.own_reached)
- Without a browser, of those keys: 13 of 49 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#key.headless_of_own)

## What stops an agent at the door

- A bot check was why sign-up stopped, of those stopped at sign-up: 81 of 92 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#bot.stopped_signup)
- Sign-up needed a person: 65 of 151 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#signup.human)
- Sign-up blocked our agent outright: 27 of 151 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#signup.blocked)
- Verification stopped our agent: 3 of 151 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#verify.stuck)
- Getting a key stopped our agent: 3 of 151 (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#key.stuck)

The walls:

- Bot checks: 84 of 151. Our agent got in another way at 10 more. (https://agentdrives.com/walls/bot-checks)
- Sign-up or key only in a browser: 2 of 151. Our agent got in another way at 15 more. (https://agentdrives.com/walls/browser-only-sign-up)
- Phone number at sign-up: 6 of 151. Our agent got in another way at 2 more. (https://agentdrives.com/walls/phone-at-sign-up)
- Card before the first use: 2 of 151. Our agent got in another way at 4 more. (https://agentdrives.com/walls/card-required)
- Email verification: 3 of 151. (https://agentdrives.com/walls/email-verification)
- Terms that forbid agent accounts: 2 of 151. Our agent got in another way at 3 more. (https://agentdrives.com/walls/terms-against-agents)

## Products that let our agent in on its own

- [AgentMail](https://agentdrives.com/tools/agentmail.md?via=md): L4
- [Airtable](https://agentdrives.com/tools/airtable.md?via=md): L4
- [Anchor Browser](https://agentdrives.com/tools/anchorbrowser.md?via=md): L4
- [Attio](https://agentdrives.com/tools/attio.md?via=md): L4
- [BookStack](https://agentdrives.com/tools/bookstackapp.md?via=md): L4
- [Browserless](https://agentdrives.com/tools/browserless.md?via=md): L4
- [Buttondown](https://agentdrives.com/tools/buttondown.md?via=md): L4
- [ClickHouse Cloud](https://agentdrives.com/tools/clickhouse.md?via=md): L4
- [Cloudinary](https://agentdrives.com/tools/cloudinary.md?via=md): L4
- [Convex](https://agentdrives.com/tools/convex.md?via=md): L4
- [Craft](https://agentdrives.com/tools/craft.md?via=md): L4
- [DocuSeal](https://agentdrives.com/tools/docuseal.md?via=md): L4
- [Fillout](https://agentdrives.com/tools/fillout.md?via=md): L4
- [Firecrawl](https://agentdrives.com/tools/firecrawl.md?via=md): L4
- [Formbricks](https://agentdrives.com/tools/formbricks.md?via=md): L4
- [GoCardless](https://agentdrives.com/tools/gocardless.md?via=md): L4
- [monday.com](https://agentdrives.com/tools/monday.md?via=md): L4
- [Nifty](https://agentdrives.com/tools/niftypm.md?via=md): L4
- [NocoDB](https://agentdrives.com/tools/nocodb.md?via=md): L4
- [Parallel](https://agentdrives.com/tools/parallel.md?via=md): L4
- [Penpot](https://agentdrives.com/tools/penpot.md?via=md): L4
- [Pipedream](https://agentdrives.com/tools/pipedream.md?via=md): L4
- [Pipedrive](https://agentdrives.com/tools/pipedrive.md?via=md): L4
- [Plane](https://agentdrives.com/tools/plane.md?via=md): L4
- [Shortcut](https://agentdrives.com/tools/shortcut.md?via=md): L4
- [SignWell](https://agentdrives.com/tools/signwell.md?via=md): L4
- [Steel](https://agentdrives.com/tools/steel.md?via=md): L4
- [Tally](https://agentdrives.com/tools/tally.md?via=md): L4
- [Twenty](https://agentdrives.com/tools/twenty.md?via=md): L4
- [Zulip](https://agentdrives.com/tools/zulip.md?via=md): L4
- [Browse AI](https://agentdrives.com/tools/browse.md?via=md): L3
- [Coda](https://agentdrives.com/tools/coda.md?via=md): L3
- [Firebase](https://agentdrives.com/tools/firebase-google.md?via=md): L3
- [Intercom](https://agentdrives.com/tools/intercom.md?via=md): L3
- [Mattermost](https://agentdrives.com/tools/mattermost.md?via=md): L3
- [Mixpanel](https://agentdrives.com/tools/mixpanel.md?via=md): L3
- [Neon](https://agentdrives.com/tools/neon.md?via=md): L3
- [Plausible Analytics](https://agentdrives.com/tools/plausible.md?via=md): L3
- [Railway](https://agentdrives.com/tools/railway.md?via=md): L3
- [Shopify](https://agentdrives.com/tools/shopify.md?via=md): L3
- [Stripe](https://agentdrives.com/tools/stripe.md?via=md): L3
- [Tavily](https://agentdrives.com/tools/tavily.md?via=md): L3
- [TickTick](https://agentdrives.com/tools/ticktick.md?via=md): L3
- [TidyCal](https://agentdrives.com/tools/tidycal.md?via=md): L3
- [Umami](https://agentdrives.com/tools/umami.md?via=md): L3
- [Browserbase](https://agentdrives.com/tools/browserbase.md?via=md): L2
- [Exa](https://agentdrives.com/tools/exa.md?via=md): L2
- [Fly.io](https://agentdrives.com/tools/fly.md?via=md): L2
- [Gumroad](https://agentdrives.com/tools/gumroad.md?via=md): L2
- [Netlify](https://agentdrives.com/tools/netlify.md?via=md): L2
- [PlanetScale](https://agentdrives.com/tools/planetscale.md?via=md): L2
- [Postiz](https://agentdrives.com/tools/postiz.md?via=md): L2
- [Vercel](https://agentdrives.com/tools/vercel.md?via=md): L2
- [Webflow](https://agentdrives.com/tools/webflow.md?via=md): L2

## How an agent says who it is

- [Web Bot Auth](https://agentdrives.com/standards/web-bot-auth.md): An agent signs each request; a site's bot check can verify who sent it. 19 of 151 products we drove offer it (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#bot.let_in).
- [Signed agents](https://agentdrives.com/standards/signed-agents.md): Agents a bot-check vendor has verified, which a site can let through. 6 of 9 products we drove offer it (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#who.edge_signed_page).
- [robots.txt for AI agents](https://agentdrives.com/standards/robots-txt-ai.md): The file that tells crawlers and agents which pages to leave alone. 13 of 151 products we drove offer it (https://agentdrives.com/data/facts?via=md#who.robots_closed).

## Studies and data

- [Do signed AI agents get past bot checks?](https://agentdrives.com/research/who-gets-in-servers-signed-agents-browsers.md?via=md)
- [Can AI agents sign up for software? We drove 148](https://agentdrives.com/research/can-ai-agents-sign-up.md?via=md)
- [AWS now lists DataDome and F5 for Web Bot Auth](https://agentdrives.com/notes/2026-10-23-aws-adds-datadome-and-f5-to-agentcore-browser-s.md?via=md)
- [Cloudflare starts scoring how its listed bots behave](https://agentdrives.com/notes/2026-10-19-cloudflare-starts-scoring-how-listed-bots-behave.md?via=md)
- [How far does an AI agent get in SaaS on its own? 148 tested](https://agentdrives.com/reports/how-far-a-real-agent-got-2026-10.md?via=md)
- [0 of 147 products let an AI agent finish the job alone](https://agentdrives.com/research/software-isnt-ready-for-agent-customers.md?via=md)
- Every wall, product by product: https://agentdrives.com/walls

## Fix guides

- [Let signed AI agents past your bot check](https://agentdrives.com/guides/let-signed-agents-past-your-bot-check.md?via=md)
- [Let AI agents sign up and get an API key](https://agentdrives.com/guides/let-agents-sign-up-and-get-a-key.md?via=md)
- [Let AI agents sign up without a phone number](https://agentdrives.com/guides/sign-up-without-a-phone-number.md?via=md)
- [Let AI agents sign up with their own email address](https://agentdrives.com/guides/accept-any-email-address.md?via=md)
- [MCP sign-in an AI agent can finish: OAuth and CIMD](https://agentdrives.com/guides/mcp-sign-in-agents-can-finish.md?via=md)