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Kimi-SearchBot
Powers the search features of Kimi, the assistant from Moonshot AI, by analysing pages and building its search index. Blocking it keeps your site out of Kimi search results.
- robots.txt name
Kimi-SearchBot- User agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; Kimi-SearchBot/1.0; +https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers- Category
- Search indexes: Crawl the web to build the index of a search engine or AI search.
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes
- Official documentation
- https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers
- Published IP ranges
- https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-searchbot.json
Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.
Block or allow it in robots.txt
Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere except one folder:
User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot
Disallow: /private/Is it really this bot?
Anyone can copy a user agent. To be sure a request comes from Moonshot AI, compare its IP address with the ranges the company publishes.
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