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KimiBot

Crawls content that may be used to train the foundation models behind Kimi, the assistant from Moonshot AI. Blocking it signals that your content should not be used for training.

robots.txt name
KimiBot
User agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; KimiBot/1.0; +https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers
Category
Training crawlers: Collect public pages that may be used to train AI models.
Follows robots.txt
Yes
Official documentation
https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers
Published IP ranges
https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimibot.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: KimiBot
Disallow: /

To allow it everywhere except one folder:

User-agent: KimiBot
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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