DataDome Report: AI Agent Traffic Surged 45% in Q2, Driving a Wave of Agent Trust Policy Adoption
Findings reveal rapid growth in agentic traffic and a growing gap between consumption and value
DataDome, the leader in bot and agent trust management, today released The AI Traffic Report Q2 2026: Agentic Traffic Surged 45%, With Meta Taking the Lead, an analysis of the scale, composition, and shifting dynamics of AI traffic across the web from April to June of 2026.
The findings reveal that AI agent traffic is not only growing at an accelerating rate but also changing in ways that challenge how organizations control agent access, infrastructure costs, and business value. AI agents are becoming more purposeful, more varied, and harder to manage with a one-size-fits-all approach.
AI agent traffic surged 45% QoQ. DataDome's network processed 17.7 billion AI agent requests in Q2 2026, up from 12.2 billion in Q1.
