---
title: "Advanced AI Bot Protection"
description: "An AI chat app built on Vercel that integrates Kasada's advanced bot protection. Prevent abusive API calls to the LLM before they occur."
url: "https://vercel.com/templates/next.js/advanced-ai-bot-protection"
links:
  repository: "https://github.com/vercel/ai/tree/main/examples/next-openai-kasada-bot-protection"
  demo: "https://vercel.com/contact/sales"
---

# Advanced AI Bot Protection

An AI chat app built on Vercel that integrates Kasada's advanced bot protection. Prevent abusive API calls to the LLM before they occur.

# Next.js x AI SDK x Kasada

Integration of an AI chat app based on Vercel's AI SDK and [Kasada](https://www.kasada.io/)'s advanced bot protection solution.

This implementation hooks into the API calls to the LLM and prevents abusive usage before it occurs.

# Setup

1. Run these commands to install the dependencies and create a `.env.local` file:

```sh
pnpm i
cp .env.local.example .env.local # and fill in the required values
```

2. Based on your Kasada dashboard, update the API URL in both `kasada-server.ts` and `kasada-client.ts`. It looks something like this:

```
https://${kasadaAPIHostname}/149e9513-01fa-4fb0-aad4-566afd725d1b/2d206a39-8ed7-437e-a3be-862e0f06eea3/api/${kasadaAPIVersion}/classification
```

3. Move the existing `app/149e9513-01fa-4fb0-aad4-566afd725d1b/2d206a39-8ed7-437e-a3be-862e0f06eea3/[[...restpath]]/route.ts` file to your
   new path, and fill in the `KASADA_ENDPOINT` and `X-Forwarded-Host` header inside of it. They're labelled `FILL_IN`.

## Related Templates

### [Bot Protection with DataDome](https://vercel.com/templates/next.js/bot-protection-datadome)

DataDome can provide real-time bot protection and other security protections to any website. In this template we'll be using it at the edge.

### [Chatbot](https://vercel.com/templates/next.js/chatbot)

A full-featured, hackable Next.js AI chatbot built by Vercel

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## Additional documentation

The [Vercel Knowledge Base](https://vercel.com/kb) contains guides and answers to common questions about Vercel, including deployment, framework configuration, domains, caching, and troubleshooting.