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Reflectionbot

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Reflectionbot is the official web crawler for Reflection AI, designed to index publicly available web content to support the development of open-source AI models. Operated by Reflection 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 Reflectionbot?

Reflectionbot is operated by Reflection AI to gather data for the creation of open-source artificial intelligence models. Unlike many proprietary crawlers, the project emphasizes transparency by providing a dedicated documentation portal, clear instructions for robots.txt configuration, and verifiable IP ranges. The bot is designed to be identifiable through a specific user-agent token and reverse DNS lookups, allowing site owners to manage its access effectively.

Helpful — The bot explicitly respects robots.txt directives and provides clear documentation, IP verification methods, and contact information for site administrators.

Identification

Bot name
Reflectionbot
Operator
Reflection AI
Category
AI Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
reflectionbot
User-agent patterns
Reflectionbot
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Reflectionbot/1.0; +https://reflection.ai/bot) Chrome/151.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Main use cases
Training data collection for AI modelsWeb indexing for open-source AI research
Rated Oct 1, 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

The primary purpose of Reflectionbot is to ingest public web data to train and refine Reflection AI's machine learning models. By crawling the web, the bot builds the datasets necessary for the company's mission of developing open-source intelligence tools. Site owners can verify the bot's legitimacy by checking that the originating IP addresses resolve to the reflection.ai domain, ensuring that the traffic is indeed from the official operator.

Block or allow Reflectionbot

Block it

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

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

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

Traffic & trends

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Related bots

Other crawlers operated by Reflection AI.

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Reflectionbot/1.0
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Links & references

Reflection AI documentation
reflection.ai/reflectionbot
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Cloudflare Radar: Reflectionbot
radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/bots/reflectionbot
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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

CloudflareRadar
Last updated October 2, 2026

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