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Proof of Human Bot Benchmark 2026

Project Oct 21, 2026

A vendor-run survey benchmark comparing five bot detectors against scripted browsers, a stealth browser and three AI browsing agents.

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Proof of Human's vendor chart reports bot detection of 99 percent for its own product, 69.4 for reCAPTCHA, 44.3 for hCaptcha, 42.1 for Turnstile and 9.1 for Bot Management.
Vendor-run five-question survey, aggregated across five adversaries and 89 to 100 evaluable sessions per detector. Human false positives were not measured; available tiers and calibration limit comparisons. This is not an AITrending replication. Source: Milena Rmus, Mayank Agrawal and Mathew Hardy / Proof of Human
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Proof of Human’s 2026 benchmark uses a five-question survey and up to 20 attempts per adversary for each detection system. It compares Playwright Chromium, CloakBrowser, Browser Use, Perplexity Comet and Grok against Proof of Human, reCAPTCHA v3, hCaptcha, Turnstile and Cloudflare Bot Management.

The authors report their own product identifying 99% of automated sessions. This is a vendor-run comparison, with 89 to 100 evaluable sessions per detector, available product tiers and no measurement of human false positives. The report received a Hacker News submission on October 20 at 17:10 UTC; that dated discussion is evidence of current attention, not an established original publication date or a product release.