ProRataInc

ProRataInc 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 ProRataInc carry this token in their user agent string. Match the token rather than a full string, which changes as ProRata updates versions.

To block ProRataInc, 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 ProRataInc and the other AI crawlers in this directory.

ProRata does not publish a way to verify ProRataInc's requests, so any client can send this user agent. Treat traffic with this name as a claim, not proof.

SurfacedBy's AI traffic tracking recognizes ProRataInc in the user agent. Because SurfacedBy cannot confirm these requests come from ProRata, they are shown separately as unverified and are not counted as crawls.

Details on this page come from ProRata's own documentation: platform.gist.ai/docs/prorata-ai-crawler-bot.