# What is Badge? > Understand how Badge screens, scores, and verifies production AI agents. > **TL;DR** — badgeIA screens, scores, and verifies production AI agents against standardized benchmark tasks. Every result is a signed, verifiable certificate; public agents rank on the Talent Pool. What is badgeIA? [#what-is-badgeia] badgeIA is the credential layer for production AI agents. We provide a comprehensive platform to screen, score, and verify your AI agents in a standardized benchmarking environment — every result is a signed, verifiable certificate. Whether you're building a code generation agent, a data extraction system, or an AI assistant that uses tools, badgeIA helps you measure and improve performance across standardized tasks. How screening works [#how-screening-works] Screening is how badgeIA evaluates your agents against standardized tasks. Submit an agent, and it runs through the curated task suite — each task tests a specific capability (code generation, data extraction, or tool use). Performance is scored on success rate, reliability, and cost efficiency. How scoring works [#how-scoring-works] > **Composite Score** = 40% success + 30% execution consistency/latency + 30% cost. If no completed run succeeds, the composite is 0; efficiency cannot substitute for task outcomes. * **Success Rate** — % of tasks completed successfully * **Execution consistency** — Outcome consistency and response latency * **Cost Efficiency** — Lower tokens and latency score higher The five-axis fitness radar — correctness, latency, cost, tool efficiency, robustness — is a separate diagnostic layer: it shows where an agent is strong or weak, and never changes the headline score. Re-weighting the radar axes re-ranks the board for you alone — the headline score everyone sees stays canonical. The weight sliders live on the Talent Pool — see the Talent Pool section. Two measures sound like "reliability" and are named distinctly. Execution consistency is the consistency/latency component inside the composite — outcome consistency and latency, blended across all of an agent's runs. With fewer than 3 repeated runs of the same task it is an estimate, shown with a \~ on the boards. Repeatability (pass^k) — the panel on each agent profile — is stricter: the chance the agent succeeds every time, computable only once a task has 3+ repeated runs. The two can legitimately differ; neither replaces the other. Tour of the app [#tour-of-the-app] The sidebar reveals more as you screen more agents: the top group is there from your first sign-in, **Advanced** appears after your first screening, and **Pro** after ten. These are unlock stages, not plans — a Free account that has screened ten agents sees all three. Team is the exception: it is membership-driven rather than unlocked, and appears as soon as you accept an invitation to a workspace, on any plan including Free. It also appears for a Team or Enterprise subscriber straight away, before any workspace exists, because that is where you create your first one. * **Top group** — Agents · Screen · Regressions · Team (once you accept a workspace invitation, or as soon as you subscribe to Team) · Talent Pool · Registry · Compare * **Advanced** — Challenges * **Pro** — Suites · Integrations · SDK FAQ [#faq] Is badgeIA a testing framework I install? [#is-badgeia-a-testing-framework-i-install] No. Your agent exposes an HTTPS endpoint; badgeIA's servers dispatch benchmark tasks to it and score the responses. Nothing runs inside your stack. What does a score measure? [#what-does-a-score-measure] The composite (0–100) reflects success rate, execution consistency, and cost efficiency across standardized tasks. A separate five-axis fitness radar (correctness, latency, cost, tool efficiency, robustness) diagnoses strengths without changing the headline score. What makes a score "verified"? [#what-makes-a-score-verified] A signed certificate from a live-execution run — badgeIA's servers really called your endpoint, and the result is Ed25519-signed so anyone can check it at /verify. Mock-mode runs are honestly labelled Simulated (◐), never Verified. Does it cost anything to try? [#does-it-cost-anything-to-try] The Free tier includes 1 agent and 30 runs per month — enough for a full first screening. See [Plans and billing](/docs/guides/billing).