Kimi-SearchBot

Kimi-SearchBot crawls pages to build the search index an AI platform answers from. Most operators use a separate user agent for each job, so you can usually allow or block one without affecting the others.

Crawlers that build search indexes used by AI platforms. Access supports discovery but does not guarantee a listing or citation.

Requests from Kimi-SearchBot carry this token in their user agent string. Match the token rather than a full string, which changes as Moonshot AI updates versions.

To block Kimi-SearchBot, add this to the robots.txt at the root of your site:

Blocking it keeps your pages out of that index, so the platform has less of your content to find and cite. Allowing it makes your pages eligible, not guaranteed, to appear in answers.

To allow it explicitly, for example after a broader rule blocks other crawlers:

Check what your robots.txt allows for Kimi-SearchBot and the other AI crawlers in this directory.

Moonshot AI publishes the IP addresses Kimi-SearchBot uses. A request that claims to be Kimi-SearchBot from any other address is not genuine.

• www.kimi.ai/policies/kimi-searchbot.json

SurfacedBy's AI traffic tracking recognizes Kimi-SearchBot in the user agent and checks each request against Moonshot AI's published addresses. Only requests that pass count as crawls; the rest are shown separately.

Details on this page come from Moonshot AI's own documentation: www.kimi.ai/policies/kimi-crawlers.

• KimiBotTraining
• Kimi-UserLive citation