RunPod

runpod.io · Compute / VPS / Cloud Hosting modeIntegrated

Last probed 2026-10-07 04:21 UTC · Verified (Partial)

RunPod — Self-serve GPU cloud for AI workloads.

66 / 100Interrupt Score(range 35–85 · 10 properties unassessed)How much automated use this service interrupts — the badge-driving metric. Unassessed properties are provisionally scored at 50%; evidence-graded successes at 25%.

Custody / RiskUnknown

ConfidenceVerified (Partial)

Verdict: Partially — an AI agent can use RunPod, but activate is blocked — Signup page loads a CAPTCHA widget — automated signup may be blocked (unverified).

DiscoverIncomplete
ActivateBlocked
OperateIncompletegated by Activate
ManageNot yet probedgated by Activate

Capability parity

Each stage answers one question about what an agent can do unattended. Stages are ordered by the credential-gateway dependency: Activate issues the keys that unlock Operate and Manage. A row marked “Not yet probed” means no probe has tried that capability yet — a different ledger from the “unassessed” properties under Findings, where no probe tier capable of catching that interrupt has run.

Discover

Can an agent find and read it, no account?

Incomplete

Assessment incomplete - not yet probed: Read pricing & limits without login.

Be found by a retrieval agentEasy
Retrieval access present.
Evidence
Path tried
robots.txt / sitemap / discovery headers
Where it stalled
completed
Evidence tier
Tier 2 (live attempt)
Verification
Evidence-only — graded from passive signal, not live-verified.
Backing checks
retrieval_bot_access, sitemap_xml
Read what it does and how to use itEasy
Machine-readable docs present.
Evidence
Path tried
llms.txt / AGENTS.md / schema.org / docs
Where it stalled
completed
Evidence tier
Tier 1 (unauth probe)
Verification
Evidence-only — graded from passive signal, not live-verified.
Backing checks
llms_txt, llms_full_txt, agent_card, markdown_content, schema_org_jsonld, content_signals
Read pricing & limits without loginNot yet probed
Public pricing was not confirmed - the page was absent, gated, or unreadable.

Activate

Can an agent sign up and walk away with the keys it needs?

Blocked

Assessment incomplete - not yet probed: Obtain an API / MCP access credential; Obtain a management / admin key.

Create an account self-serveBlocked
Signup page loads a CAPTCHA widget — automated signup may be blocked (unverified).
CAPTCHA / bot-challenge blocks this.
Evidence
Path tried
signup flow
Where it stalled
verification step
Evidence tier
Tier 1 (unauth probe)
Verification
Evidence-only — graded from passive signal, not live-verified.
- CAPTCHA / bot-challengeSignupSignup page loads a turnstile CAPTCHA widget (matched: script[src*="turnstile"]); widget presence does not prove automation is challenged — unverified.
Obtain an API / MCP access credentialNot yet probed
No self-serve credential signal detected - key issuance not yet probed.
Obtain a management / admin keyNot yet probed
No scoped or administrative key path was confirmed after activation.
Accept the terms without a bot-banEasy
No bot-prohibition signal found.
Evidence
Path tried
ToS / policy scan
Where it stalled
completed
Evidence tier
Tier 0 (passive scan)
Verification
Evidence-only — graded from passive signal, not live-verified.

Operate

Can an agent do the service's actual jobs — call, transact, pay?

Incomplete

Assessment incomplete - not yet probed: Pay via an agent rail (x402 / ACP / AP2).

Gated by Activate — the credential this stage needs isn't issued unattended, so these rows may be unreachable even where they read Easy.

Call the primary service over MCP / APIEasy
Verified by a live call.
Gated by Activate — the credential this needs isn't issued unattended.
Evidence
Path tried
API / MCP / browser
Where it stalled
completed
Evidence tier
Tier 2 (live attempt)
Verification
Verified — a live attempt completed.
Backing checks
api_catalog, webmcp
Complete a transaction / checkoutNot applicable
Integrated tool — the API call is the transaction, no separate checkout.
Gated by Activate — the credential this needs isn't issued unattended.
Pay via an agent rail (x402 / ACP / AP2)Not yet probed
No agent-payment metadata detected - payment rails not yet probed.
Gated by Activate — the credential this needs isn't issued unattended.

Manage

Can an agent administer the account and provision resources?

Not yet probed

No probe has attempted this stage yet: Provision / scale / tear down a service; Change account details / set budget / rotate keys; View usage & billing; Cancel / export / delete (offboard).

Gated by Activate — the credential this stage needs isn't issued unattended, so these rows may be unreachable even where they read Easy.

Provision / scale / tear down a serviceNot yet probed
Not probed - provisioning is not part of the probe suite yet.
Gated by Activate — the credential this needs isn't issued unattended.
Change account details / set budget / rotate keysNot yet probed
Not probed - account admin is not part of the probe suite yet.
Gated by Activate — the credential this needs isn't issued unattended.
View usage & billingNot yet probed
Authenticated usage and billing access was not confirmed.
Gated by Activate — the credential this needs isn't issued unattended.
Cancel / export / delete (offboard)Not yet probed
No self-serve cancellation, export, or deletion path was confirmed.
Gated by Activate — the credential this needs isn't issued unattended.

Findings

How scoring works →

Interrupt tier: Moderate-Interrupt — derived from 2 findings; interrupt score 66 / 100 — the badge-driving metric. (range 35–85 · 10 unassessed)

Every tool starts at 100. Each interrupt found subtracts a penalty of base weight × timing × hardness × evidence — the multiplier values below come from the same rubric tables the score is computed with. New snapshots also provisionally subtract 50% of the full worst-case tax for each unassessed property and 25% for evidence-graded successes not live-verified by Tier 2.

Property coverage

A check only counts as clean when a probe tier capable of detecting that interrupt actually ran and found nothing. Not tested ≠ clean.

Property	Stage	State	Evidence	Required
CAPTCHA / bot-challenge	activate	failed	Active finding — itemized in the penalty matrix below. Tier 0 assesses this property.	no
SSO-only signup, no API-key issuance	activate	partial	Some coverage exists, but the available evidence is incomplete. Tier 1 assesses this property.	no
Email OTP verification	activate	unassessed	Tier 1 (unauth probe) + Tier 2 (live attempt) ran but did not gather enough evidence to claim clean. Tier 1 assesses this property.	no
SMS / phone OTP verification	activate	unassessed	Tier 1 (unauth probe) + Tier 2 (live attempt) ran but did not gather enough evidence to claim clean. Tier 1 assesses this property.	no
Mandatory phone verification call	activate	unassessed	Tier 2 (live attempt) ran but did not gather enough evidence to claim clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
Mailed physical code (postal)	activate	unassessed	Tier 2 (live attempt) ran but did not gather enough evidence to claim clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
“Contact sales” wall (no self-serve path)	activate	unassessed	Tier 2 (live attempt) ran but did not gather enough evidence to claim clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
Manual approval queue	activate	unassessed	Tier 2 (live attempt) ran but did not gather enough evidence to claim clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
Rate-limit-triggered manual review	manage	unassessed	Tier 2 (live attempt) ran but did not gather enough evidence to claim clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
One-time account / payment-method provisioning	manage	unassessed	Tier 2 (live attempt) ran but did not gather enough evidence to claim clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
Identity / KYC verification	activate	unassessed	Tier 2 (live attempt) ran but did not gather enough evidence to claim clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
Crypto wallet / key-custody setup	operate	unassessed	Tier 2 (live attempt) ran but did not gather enough evidence to claim clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
ToS clause banning automated/bot access	discover	success	None found — checked at Tier 0 (passive scan) (evidence-graded; not yet live-verified by a Tier 2 probe) Tier 0 assesses this property.	no
Mandatory redirect to vendor’s own site	operate	success	None found — checked at Tier 1 (unauth probe) + Tier 2 (live attempt) (evidence-graded; not yet live-verified by a Tier 2 probe) Tier 1 assesses this property.	no
No Machine Interface	operate	success	None found — checked at Tier 1 (unauth probe) (evidence-graded; not yet live-verified by a Tier 2 probe) Tier 1 assesses this property.	yes

Interrupt found	Base weight	× Timing	× Hardness	× Evidence	= Penalty
Starting score					100
CAPTCHA / bot-challengeBefore any account existsHomepage load triggered a turnstile challenge page (matched signal: script[src*="turnstile"]).	6	×1one-time setup	×2.5hard	×0.6Tier 0 (passive scan)	−9
CAPTCHA / bot-challengeSignupSignup page loads a turnstile CAPTCHA widget (matched: script[src*="turnstile"]); widget presence does not prove automation is challenged — unverified.	6	×1one-time setup	×2.5hard	×0.8Tier 1 (unauth probe)inferred	−6
Total penalty					−15
Full unknown tax 118.2 — capped at 25 (point score uses 50% of the capped value)					−118.2
Evidence-graded tax (successes not live-verified by a Tier 2 probe) 129.2 — capped at 25 (point score uses 25% of the capped value)					−129.2
Raw score = 100 − 15 = 85 Point score = 85 − 50% × 25 − 25% × 25 = 66.3 → 66					66

inferred = detected from passive signals, not a directly observed interrupt — penalized at half weight

What would make this Easy

One concrete change per blocker found. These are the diffs between this listing's current parity and an unattended agent path.

Activate — CAPTCHA / bot-challengeDrop the CAPTCHA, or gate it behind a documented bot-detection signal a well-behaved agent can pass.

How we scored this

Confidence: Verified (Partial) (0.75) — A live Tier-2 session ran but stopped early at a detected hard blocker — verified up to that point, unknown beyond it.
Machine-Readability sub-score: 59 / 100 (a separate integration-ease signal — it never enters the Interrupt Score or badge).
Some capability stages are not yet probed — shown plainly in the spine above, never as a pass.
Rubric, tiers, confidence model, and badge thresholds →

Machine-readability checks 59 / 100

Four check groups, equal weight: machine interfaces, browsing efficiency, element discoverability, and discovery/agent access. Each check carries an evidence grade (proven / plausible / emerging) — an honesty label that never weights the score. What these mean →

Management or admin key pathNot checked — not found after activation
Authenticated usage and billing readNot checked — not found after activation
Account offboarding pathNot checked — not found after activation
llms.txtemergingFound — www.runpod.io/llms.txt (6.5 KB, 36 links)
llms-full.txtemergingFound — docs.runpod.io/llms-full.txt (1024.0 KB, 931 links)
AGENTS.mdemergingNot provided
A2A agent cardemergingFound — docs.runpod.io/.well-known/agent-card.json
MCP server (well-known or official registry)plausibleNot provided
OpenAPI/Swagger specplausibleNot provided
Rate-limit headersplausibleNot provided
Structured JSON error responsesplausibleFound — api.runpod.io/ (HTTP 404 JSON error body)
OAuth authorization-server metadata (RFC 8414)provenNot provided
API catalog (RFC 9727) (emerging)emergingFound — www.runpod.io/.well-known/api-catalog
Agent-payment discovery (x402 / UCP) (emerging)emergingNot provided
Lean HTML transfer sizeplausible246 KB raw HTML (threshold 488 KB)
Manageable DOM sizeplausibleNot provided
High content-to-markup densityplausible4.4% text/HTML (11191 chars in 246 KB, threshold 2%)
Content readable without JS executionprovenraw HTML holds 107% of rendered text (11191 vs 10481 chars; threshold 40%)
Clean-content alternate (RSS/Atom/feed/markdown)plausibleNot provided
Serves markdown on Accept: text/markdownplausiblereturned text/markdown; charset=utf-8
Interactive elements are semanticplausibleNot provided
Form fields have accessible namesplausibleNot provided
Inputs carry autocomplete hintsplausibleNot provided
WebMCP tools (modelContext API)emerging5 tool(s) registered via the modelContext API during page load
AI retrieval/search fetchers allowed (robots.txt)provenno retrieval-fetcher blocks in robots.txt
Sitemap (indexability)plausibleFound — www.runpod.io/sitemap.xml
schema.org JSON-LD in raw HTMLplausible2 valid JSON-LD block(s) in raw (pre-JS) HTML
Content-Signal directives (robots.txt)emergingsearch=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no
Web Bot Auth key directory (emerging)emergingNot provided
Discovery Link headers on homepage (emerging)emergingNot provided
Pricing visible without loginNot checked — homepage returned a challenge page
robots.txt AI-crawler accessplausibleno AI-crawler blocks in robots.txt
Unauthenticated API error is structured JSONplausibleFound — api.runpod.io/ (HTTP 404)
Unauthenticated API returns auth guidance (401/403 or documented)plausibleNot provided
API exposes rate-limit headersplausibleNot provided
API key obtainable without human interactionplausibleNot checked — API documentation host reachable (https://docs.runpod.io/) — reachability is not evidence of unattended key issuance

Evidence & history

Last probed 2026-10-07 04:21 UTC. The raw JSON is the archival record.

Date	Score	Badge	Rubric version
2026-10-07 04:21 UTC	66	Moderate-Interrupt (current)	rubric v2026.4
2026-10-07 04:21 UTC	72	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.4
2026-09-07 01:58 UTC	72	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.4
2026-09-07 01:48 UTC	72	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.4
2026-08-10 00:40 UTC	72	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.4
2026-08-10 00:24 UTC	72	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.4
2026-08-09 23:50 UTC	57	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.4
2026-08-09 23:50 UTC	72	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.4
2026-08-09 23:50 UTC	54	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.4
2026-08-09 17:13 UTC	54	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.4
2026-08-09 05:27 UTC	61	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.3
2026-08-09 05:27 UTC	61	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.3
2026-08-09 05:19 UTC	61	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.3
2026-08-09 05:19 UTC	79	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.3
2026-08-09 03:14 UTC	79	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.3
2026-08-09 01:49 UTC	79	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.2
2026-08-09 01:45 UTC	79	Moderate-Interrupt	rubric v2026.2
2026-07-10 07:17 UTC	91	Low-Interrupt	rubric v2026.1

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