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GPTBot

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GPTBot is used to crawl content that may be used in training OpenAI's generative AI foundation models Operated by OpenAI.

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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 GPTBot?

GPTBot is a web crawler operated by OpenAI. GPTBot is used to crawl content that may be used in training OpenAI's generative AI foundation models It is part of the growing wave of AI-powered crawlers that collect web data for training and improving AI models.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name
GPTBot
Operator
OpenAI
Category
AI Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
gptbot
User-agent patterns
GPTBot
User-agent string
GPTBot
Main use cases
AI model training data collectionContent analysisWeb data extraction

Why it crawls your site

GPTBot crawls websites to collect and process web content for AI model training and improvement. It is operated by OpenAI as part of their AI and machine learning infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow GPTBot

Block it

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

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

Ensure your robots.txt allows GPTBot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to OpenAI's documentation.

Traffic & trends

Cloudflare Radar traffic
6.9%

Share of bot traffic observed by Cloudflare Radar.

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

CloudflareRadar
Last updated July 21, 2026