Does Costco allow AI agents?

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Bans 'robots, agents…' for extraction and any software that interacts with the services without prior written consent.

Our testing

Report-only: we cite public reports and never test agents here

What the site's own pages say

Each line links to the page it comes from. Lines marked as crawler rules come from the site's robots.txt and tell automated crawlers what not to fetch; they are not legal terms.

• User-agent: *

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• Checkout-flow and order paths are disallowed to crawlers

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• Account registration, password reset, and logoff paths disallowed

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

Sources

• Costco Terms and Conditions of Use 2026-10-07