Kuldeep Paul

Model training · Moonshot AI

KimiBot

Moonshot AI's training crawler.

Compiled by · Updated Oct 29, 2026

7.6%of top sites fully block KimiBot
436sites blocking, of 5,701 with robots.txt
43of the top 1,000 block it
Operator
Moonshot AI
Purpose
Model training
Used for
Kimi models
Obeys robots.txt
Yes
robots.txt token
KimiBot
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; KimiBot/1.0; +https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers
IP list
Not published
Official docs
kimi.ai

Block KimiBot in robots.txt

User-agent: KimiBot
Disallow: /

Well-known sites that block KimiBot

lemonde.fr #700

Ranks from the Tranco list. Full per-site data in the robots.txt study.

Other Moonshot AI bots

Kimi-SearchBot (ai search index)

Questions

What is KimiBot?

KimiBot is a model training bot operated by Moonshot AI, used for Kimi models. Moonshot AI's training crawler.

How do I block KimiBot?

Add "User-agent: KimiBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of each host you want to protect.

Does KimiBot respect robots.txt?

Yes. Moonshot AI documents that KimiBot honours robots.txt directives.

How many websites block KimiBot?

In a Oct 29, 2026 analysis of the top 10,000 websites by Kuldeep Paul, 7.6% of sites with a robots.txt file fully disallowed KimiBot.

Analysis using this data

  1. Who blocks AI crawlers? What 10,000 robots.txt files revealPublishers block training, not answers; half of all blocklists leak; Cloudflare writes the most common AI policy.
  2. The opt-out asymmetry: you can block the small AI engines, not the big oneThe AI surfaces with the most users are the ones publishers can't refuse and can't measure.

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In running text: according to Kuldeep Paul's KimiBot — AI crawler directory (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.

APA

Paul, K. (2026). KimiBot — AI crawler directory [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/kimibot

MLA

Paul, Kuldeep. "KimiBot — AI crawler directory." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/kimibot.

Chicago

Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "KimiBot — AI crawler directory." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/kimibot.

BibTeX

@misc{paul2026kimibot, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {KimiBot — AI crawler directory}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/kimibot}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }

HTML link

<a href="https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/kimibot">KimiBot — AI crawler directory</a> (data: Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc)