# Do coding agents recommend Vercel BotID? > Vercel BotID was chosen in 11% of 160 judged bot protection sessions, ranking second. Measured with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. Source: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-vercel-botid Published: 2026-09-03 Publisher: Armature, Inc. (https://armature.tech) --- > Vercel BotID was chosen in 11% of 160 judged bot protection sessions, ranking second. It was also raised as a candidate in 13 further sessions without being chosen. This page reports what happened when Claude Code, Codex and Cursor had to solve a problem in bot protection inside a realistic codebase. Not what a chat assistant says about Vercel BotID. What an agent actually installed. One thing to read first: every one of those wins came from a **single codebase**. That is a result about one repository rather than about bot protection in general, and the splits below cannot separate the two. Treat them as a description of that repository. ## The numbers | | | | --- | --- | | Category | Bot protection | | Sessions in the category | 160 | | Sessions where Vercel BotID was chosen | 18 | | Install share | 11% | | Rank in category | 2 of 6 | | Codebases it won in | 1 | | Raised as a candidate, not chosen | 13 | | Chosen when considered | 58% | | Site | vercel.com | ## By agent With 18 wins spread across three agents, the rates below are small numbers and a difference between them is not yet a finding. They are here because the direction is worth knowing, not because the gap is established. | Agent | Sessions | Chose Vercel BotID | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Claude Code | 54 | 2 | 4% | | Codex | 54 | 7 | 13% | | Cursor | 52 | 9 | 17% | ## By who was asking Vercel BotID does much better with one kind of buyer than another. It won 29% of sessions asked as junior developer and 0% of those asked as enterprise team. | Who is asking | Sessions | Chose Vercel BotID | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Vibe coder | 61 | 0 | 0% | | Junior developer | 63 | 18 | 29% | | Enterprise team | 36 | 0 | 0% | ## What Vercel BotID was up against The full ranking in bot protection, from the same sessions: | # | Product | Runs won | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Cloudflare Turnstile | 91 | 57% | | 2 | Vercel BotID **(this page)** | 18 | 11% | | 3 | Built in-house (no product adopted) | 18 | 11% | | 4 | ALTCHA | 12 | 8% | | 5 | django-axes | 11 | 7% | | 6 | Google reCAPTCHA | 6 | 4% | | 7 | Laravel RateLimiter | 2 | 1% | ## What this means Agents almost never raise Vercel BotID without choosing it: 13 sessions raised against 18 chosen. When it gets considered, it usually wins. The constraint is how rarely it gets considered at all, which is a presence problem: templates, framework integrations and pages that answer the configuration and production questions agents actually search for. ## Where these numbers come from The 160 sessions in bot protection are part of a published set of 5,292, run with real coding agents inside realistic codebases and judged blind. The full method is on one page: [how we measured this](/library/how-we-measured-this). Every bot protection run can be replayed on [the board](/leaderboards/bot-protection). If you work on Vercel BotID: the judge recorded a reason for every session where it was raised and passed over. Those reasons are in the transcripts. ## Common questions ### Do coding agents recommend Vercel BotID? Yes. Vercel BotID was chosen in 18 of the 160 judged sessions in bot protection, a 11% install share, ranking second in its category. ### Does Claude Code recommend Vercel BotID? In 2 of the 54 sessions in bot protection run with Claude Code, which is 4%. ### Do different coding agents treat Vercel BotID differently? Yes, and by a wide margin. Cursor chose it in 17% of its runs and Claude Code in 4%. ### How was this measured? Real coding agents at pinned versions were run in sandboxes inside 51 realistic codebases and asked to solve real tasks. A simulated project owner approved or questioned each recommendation before any code was written, and a judge from a model family that builds none of the agents read every session blind. ### How often is Vercel BotID considered but not chosen? It was raised as a candidate in 13 sessions without being chosen, and chosen in 18. That is a 58% conversion from considered to chosen. ## Read next - [How to get picked for bot protection by coding agents](https://armature.tech/library/bot-protection-coding-agents-playbook) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/bot-protection-coding-agents-playbook.md) - [Do coding agents recommend Cloudflare Turnstile?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-cloudflare-turnstile) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-cloudflare-turnstile.md) - [Do coding agents recommend ALTCHA?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-altcha) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-altcha.md) - [Do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor pick the same tools?](https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree.md) --- Armature helps software products get discovered and used by coding agents. 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