AI Bot Directory / GPTBot

What is GPTBot?

GPTBot is OpenAI's bulk crawler that collects web content for training AI models. It doesn't drive traffic back to your site directly, but the content it collects shapes what future models know — and say — about you.

OpenAI
operator
Training
category
11
hits · 30d · tracked sites
#5
rank of 19 bots seen

Last 7 days: 11 hits across 1 reporting sites. Live aggregate data on the AI Crawler Traffic Report.

How to spot GPTBot in your logs

Look for this token in the request User-Agent (case-insensitive):

gptbot

Should you allow or block GPTBot?

Blocking it keeps your content out of future training data, at the cost of future models knowing less about you. Most brands chasing AI visibility leave it allowed.

To block it anyway, add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Note: robots.txt is a request, not a lock — well-behaved crawlers honor it; verify with your own traffic data.

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