Botscope

Botscope is an AI bot detection and traffic analytics tool that classifies who hits your site — humans, crawlers, scrapers, and AI agents — and can block the unwanted traffic. It starts in observe mode, monitoring without blocking, before you turn on enforcement. The classifier identifies over 30 AI agents and bot types using reverse-DNS verification, and it detects headless browsers, fake crawlers, scrapers, credential stuffing, and datacenter proxies. Detection runs in layers: network reputation and verified-crawler bypass, session validation with HMAC-signed cookies, browser-based proof-of-work challenges, and honeypot traps embedded in HTML. The analytics dashboard breaks requests down by classification (human, bot, AI agent), tracks which AI platforms — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity — cite your pages and send return traffic, applies per-agent policy enforcement, and includes a robots.txt audit showing which AI crawlers your policies currently allow. You can deploy it as a JavaScript snippet, WordPress plugin, Cloudflare Worker, DNS edge proxy, or PHP agent, and switch between them without reinstalling. Pricing is published: a free tier of 100K events/month with no card, then paid blocks from $5.99 down to $2.99 per 100K events as volume grows. For teams searching BestAIFor for the best AI for bot detection and AI-traffic analytics, the dual role — blocking bad bots while measuring AI citations — is the differentiator.

Detecting and blocking malicious bots while measuring which AI agents crawl and cite your site.