KimiBot user agent
Operated by Moonshot AI
KimiBot is Moonshot AI's crawler that collects content which may be used to train Kimi foundation models.
The KimiBot bot at a glance
- KimiBot is operated by Moonshot AI and collects public web pages that may be used to train AI models.
- The robots.txt token for KimiBot is KimiBot.
- Blocking an AI training crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings.
- KimiBot robots.txt support: Yes.
- Recommendation for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Your choice.
What is KimiBot?
KimiBot gathers public pages for Moonshot AI’s Kimi models.
Moonshot AI runs Kimi-SearchBot separately, so training can be blocked without leaving Kimi search.
Should you block KimiBot?
Blocking KimiBot is a business decision: it protects your content but can lower how well AI products know your brand.
| Effect on search rankings | Blocking an AI training crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings. |
|---|---|
| Effect on AI visibility | Blocking keeps your future pages out of that company's training data, so its models may know less about your brand over time. It does not remove you from that company's AI search, which uses a separate bot. |
| Follows robots.txt | Yes |
| Recommendation | Your choice |
How to block or allow KimiBot
Put the robots.txt rule in the file at the root of every domain and subdomain, for example https://example.com/robots.txt. The token KimiBot is matched case-insensitively.
robots.txt: block
# Block KimiBot
User-agent: KimiBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow KimiBot
User-agent: KimiBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep KimiBot out of private areas only
User-agent: KimiBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to KimiBot
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(KimiBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to KimiBot
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (KimiBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "KimiBot")How to verify real KimiBot traffic
Moonshot AI publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for KimiBot, so the user agent cannot be verified. Anyone can send the same string. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
How to find KimiBot in your server logs
Search the web server access log for the token. The command below counts KimiBot requests per URL on Nginx or Apache.
grep -i "KimiBot" access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20For a full report per AI bot, upload the log to the AI Log File Analyzer, a free tool by Justin Hà.
KimiBot FAQ
KimiBot uses the robots.txt token "KimiBot". Moonshot AI does not publish a full user-agent string, so match the token inside the User-Agent header.
Yes. Moonshot AI states that KimiBot follows robots.txt rules written for the "KimiBot" token.
Blocking an AI training crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings. Blocking keeps your future pages out of that company's training data, so its models may know less about your brand over time. It does not remove you from that company's AI search, which uses a separate bot.
Add two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of each domain and subdomain: "User-agent: KimiBot" followed by "Disallow: /". The token is case-insensitive. Changes can take up to 24 hours to be picked up.
Not reliably. Moonshot AI publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for KimiBot, so anyone can send the same user agent. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
Search your server access log for "KimiBot", for example with: grep -i "KimiBot" access.log. The AI Log File Analyzer by Justin Hà counts visits per AI bot from an uploaded log file.
Sources: Moonshot AI crawler documentation. Last reviewed by Justin Hà.
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