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BenchiContactBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTFinds the sales contact a car dealership publishes on its website, and keeps it to send customers' lease-quote requests
Identification
Bot name
BenchiContactBot
Category
Other
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
benchicontactbot
User-agent patterns
BenchiContactBotUser-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BenchiContactBot/1.0; +https://benchi.io/bot)
Rated Oct 17, 2026 from public evidence
How we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
Names itself honestly
Yes
Verified by Cloudflare
Yes
Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs
Not stated
Ignores site rules
None found
Disguises itself or evades blocks
None found
Overloads sites
None found
How widely people complain
No complaint about this bot in the evidence
Reddit discussion
There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence
What we read
- google ignoring robots.txt ? - Google Search Central Community
- Robots.txt as a Lever for AI Accountability
- How to deal with AI crawlers that ignore robots.txt | Soups Ranjan posted on the topic | LinkedIn
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- Control bots, spiders, and crawlers — DreamHost Knowledge Base
Block or allow BenchiContactBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for BenchiContactBot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block BenchiContactBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: BenchiContactBot Disallow: / # Allow BenchiContactBot full access User-agent: BenchiContactBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows BenchiContactBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
Traffic & trends
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Data sources
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Last updated October 25, 2026
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