---
title: BotID
description: An invisible CAPTCHA that protects against sophisticated bots without showing visible challenges or requiring manual intervention
url: "https://vercel.com/kb/botid"
published: 2025-11-06
last_updated: 2025-11-26
install_vercel_plugin: npx plugins add vercel/vercel-plugin
---

# BotID

An invisible CAPTCHA that protects against sophisticated bots without showing visible challenges or requiring manual intervention

## All BotID guides

- [Vercel BotID vs Cloudflare Turnstile](/kb/guide/vercel-botid-vs-cloudflare-turnstile): Compare Vercel BotID and Cloudflare Turnstile for bot protection, including detection model, hosting requirements, checkBotId() vs Siteverify, framework support, and pricing.
- [How to protect your AI endpoints with Vercel BotID](/kb/guide/protect-ai-endpoints-with-vercel-botid): Gate every request to your AI endpoints with Vercel BotID and checkBotId() so inference runs only for verified callers. Covers setup, Deep Analysis, and verified bots.
- [How to Utilize Vercel’s Bot Management Features](/kb/guide/how-to-utilize-vercels-bot-management-features): A practical, step-by-step guide to identifying unwanted automated traffic and securing your Vercel apps with Bot Protection Managed Rules, AI Bots Managed Rules, BotID, and custom WAF rules. Learn how to enable, monitor, and tune protections to block bad bots, preserve performance for real users, and safely allow good crawlers.
- [Deploying and testing BotID](/kb/guide/deploying-and-testing-botid): This guide gives an overview on Vercel BotID and how to deploy and test it in production
- [How to protect your AI app from bots](/kb/guide/how-to-protect-your-ai-app-from-bots): Learn how to protect your AI app from bots, scrapers, and abuse using Firewall, BotID, and more.

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