# Vercel — Protecting AI apps from bots and bad actors with Vercel and Kasada

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2024-03-22T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/protecting-ai-apps-with-vercel-and-kasada
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20999-protecting-ai-apps-from-bots-and-bad-actors-with-vercel-and-kasada
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel describes how it uses Next.js Middleware and Kasada's bot protection to secure its AI SDK Playground. The platform saw bot traffic drop from 84% of all traffic to negligible levels after integrating Kasada.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/protecting-ai-apps-with-vercel-and-kasada:

> The results were striking. Upon deploying Kasada, we saw an immediate drop in bot traffic, from a staggering 84% of our traffic to negligible levels.

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