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KimiBot

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KimiBot crawls content potentially used to train Kimi's foundation models. Operated by Moonshot AI.

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Assessment
AI Crawler
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is KimiBot?

KimiBot is the primary training crawler for Moonshot AI, the developer behind the Kimi AI platform. Unlike search-focused crawlers, its specific mandate is to ingest public web data to refine the underlying architecture and knowledge base of Kimi's large language models. It operates as part of a broader suite of crawlers from Moonshot AI, which distinguishes between training data acquisition, user-initiated live retrieval, and search indexing.

Helpful — The bot respects standard robots.txt directives, allowing site administrators to opt-out of data collection for AI training purposes.

Identification

Bot name
KimiBot
Operator
Moonshot AI
Category
AI Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
kimibot
User-agent patterns
KimiBot
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; KimiBot/1.0; +https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers
Main use cases
Foundation model trainingData collection for machine learningContent analysis for AI development
Rated Sep 23, 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

Why it crawls your site

KimiBot crawls the web to build the massive datasets required for training generative AI models. By visiting and parsing public URLs, it gathers the text and information necessary for the model to learn language patterns and factual knowledge. Site owners can verify the authenticity of this bot by checking the source IP against the JSON lists provided on the official Kimi policies page or by observing its adherence to robots.txt instructions, which Moonshot AI explicitly supports as the primary method for site owners to manage their data usage.

Block or allow KimiBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for KimiBot 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 KimiBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: KimiBot
Disallow: /

# Allow KimiBot full access
User-agent: KimiBot
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows KimiBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Traffic & trends

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Links & references

Moonshot AI documentation
www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers
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Cloudflare Radar: KimiBot
radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/bots/kimibot
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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated November 1, 2026

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