# Should you block GPTBot, ClaudeBot and other AI crawlers? (2026)

> Mostly no. Blocking GPTBot or ClaudeBot only stops AI training. Block OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT can't cite you. Bot table, robots.txt and the Cloudflare trap.

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Last updated: 2026-10-27

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Mostly no. Blocking GPTBot or ClaudeBot only stops AI training. Block OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT can't cite you. Bot table, robots.txt and the Cloudflare trap.

BH

Brenden House

Founder of Searchmaxxed. We build agentic SEO and GEO workflows that help businesses rank on Google and get named in ChatGPT, then turn that search into more customers and revenue.

PUBLISHED 27 OCTOBER 2026 UPDATED 27 OCTOBER 2026 16 MIN READ

Most B2B and enterprise companies shouldn't block AI crawlers wholesale. Block the AI search crawlers and ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can't find or quote you. Training crawlers are different. GPTBot is OpenAI's training crawler and ClaudeBot is Anthropic's, and neither decides whether those assistants cite you today. OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot and PerplexityBot do that. So keep the search bots open. Block training bots only where your content is the thing you sell.

I'm Brenden House, and I run Searchmaxxed, an SEO and AI SEO agency. On 27 October 2026 (AEST) I read the crawler documentation from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, Apple and Cloudflare. Everything below rests on those pages.

## In summary

Leave every AI search and answer crawler open, and treat the training crawlers as a separate business decision.

| Crawler | Block it? |
| --- | --- |
| OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot | No. They decide if AI search can show you |
| ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User | No. They fetch your page while a buyer waits |
| GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, CCBot | Your call: training only |
| Googlebot, Bingbot, Applebot | Never. They feed Google Search, AI Overviews, Bing and Siri |

- Blocking GPTBot doesn't remove you from ChatGPT search, and blocking Google-Extended doesn't touch your Google rankings or AI Overviews.
- Robots.txt is a request. Reputable crawlers obey it, while a scraper that ignores it walks straight past.
- The bigger risk in 2026 is an accidental block, because Cloudflare says its "block training" setting can now catch Googlebot too.
- We allow every crawler on searchmaxxed.com, training bots included. Our file is below, ready to copy.

## What is ClaudeBot?

ClaudeBot is Anthropic's web crawler for AI model training, and it collects public pages that may go into training future Claude models. Blocking it in robots.txt keeps your future content out of that training, and it doesn't stop Claude finding or quoting you in search.

Anthropic runs three bots. Its [support page on crawling](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-data-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler), updated 7 April 2026, spells out each one:

| Anthropic bot | What it does | What blocking it costs you |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ClaudeBot | Collects content that could go into model training | Your future content stays out of training. Search access runs through the other two bots |
| Claude-SearchBot | Indexes pages to improve Claude's search results | Anthropic says it "may reduce your site's visibility and accuracy in user search results" |
| Claude-User | Fetches a page when a person asks Claude a question | Claude can't read your page for that person |

Anthropic says its bots honour robots.txt and the non-standard Crawl-delay rule. IP blocking is another matter. Anthropic warns it may not work as a lasting opt-out, because a blocked ClaudeBot can't read your robots.txt to see the opt-out at all. Use robots.txt, on every subdomain.

People search for it as "Claudebot", "Claude bot" or "Anthropic crawler". Don't confuse it with Clawdbot, the open-source personal assistant now called OpenClaw. That one has nothing to do with crawling. The older token "anthropic-ai" still turns up in copied robots.txt templates, though Anthropic's current page lists only the three bots above.

## What is GPTBot, and how is it different from OAI-SearchBot?

GPTBot is OpenAI's crawler for training its foundation models, while OAI-SearchBot decides whether your site can appear in ChatGPT search answers. They're separate switches.

[OpenAI's crawler page](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots) is plain about it. Sites that block OAI-SearchBot "will not be shown in ChatGPT search answers". Disallowing GPTBot, on the other hand, "indicates a site's content should not be used in training generative AI foundation models". Expect changes to take about 24 hours to reach OpenAI's search systems.

Then there's ChatGPT-User. It visits a page when someone in ChatGPT asks about it, so OpenAI says robots.txt rules "may not apply" because a person started the request. OpenAI's fourth agent, OAI-AdsBot, only checks landing pages submitted as ChatGPT ads.

That split is the whole decision. Picture a buyer asking ChatGPT for the best inventory software for mid-size manufacturers. ChatGPT runs a few searches and reads the results before it names a shortlist. OAI-SearchBot decides whether your product page can sit among those results when ChatGPT goes looking on your buyer's behalf. GPTBot has no say.

## Which AI crawlers should you know, and what does blocking each one do?

AI bots come in three kinds. Search crawlers build the index an AI answer draws from, and user fetchers read a page live for one person. Training crawlers collect content for future models. Block either of the first two and you drop out of AI answers; block the third and you drop out of future training.

| Operator | Bot (robots.txt token) | Kind | What blocking it does |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OpenAI | OAI-SearchBot | Search | You stop appearing in ChatGPT search answers |
| OpenAI | ChatGPT-User | User fetch | ChatGPT can't open your page for a user; robots.txt may not apply |
| OpenAI | GPTBot | Training | Your content stays out of OpenAI model training |
| Anthropic | Claude-SearchBot | Search | Lower visibility in Claude's search results |
| Anthropic | Claude-User | User fetch | Claude can't read your page for a user |
| Anthropic | ClaudeBot | Training | Your future content stays out of Claude training |
| Perplexity | PerplexityBot | Search | You stop appearing in Perplexity results |
| Perplexity | Perplexity-User | User fetch | Perplexity says it "generally ignores robots.txt rules" |
| Google | Googlebot | Search | You leave Google Search, AI Overviews and AI Mode |
| Google | Google-Extended | Permission token | Content stays out of Gemini training and Gemini grounding; Search is unaffected |
| Apple | Applebot | Search | You leave Spotlight, Siri and Safari results |
| Apple | Applebot-Extended | Permission token | Content stays out of Apple foundation model training |
| Common Crawl | CCBot | Training dataset | Content stays out of the open Common Crawl dataset many AI labs use |

Sources: each operator's own crawler page, read 27 October 2026: [Google's common crawlers list](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers), [Perplexity's bot guide](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots) and [Apple's Applebot page](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829). The CCBot line comes from Vercel's crawler study.

What's a permission token? It's a robots.txt name that doesn't crawl anything itself. Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended work this way: Googlebot and Applebot still fetch your pages, and the token sets what the content may train.

You'll see two more names in server logs. Bytespider belongs to ByteDance and Meta-ExternalAgent to Meta, and most blocklists file both under training.

## Does blocking AI crawlers hurt your SEO?

Not if you block training crawlers. Google says Google-Extended "does not impact a site's inclusion in Google Search nor is it used as a ranking signal". Blocking Googlebot is a different story, because that removes you from Search and from AI Overviews in one go.

This catches people. Google treats AI Overviews and AI Mode as part of Search, so no separate AI Overviews bot exists to block. Its [guide to AI features](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features) calls Googlebot's robots.txt rules "the control for site owners" here. To limit what Google shows from a page, it points to the `nosnippet`, `data-nosnippet`, `max-snippet` and `noindex` controls. Our [Google AI Mode SEO guide](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/research/google-ai-mode-seo) goes deeper.

Google's guide also lists the SEO basics that still count for AI features. First on the list is "Ensuring that crawling is allowed in robots.txt, and by any CDN or hosting infrastructure." Hold on to that phrase.

Blocking the AI search bots costs you somewhere else. Our own testing shows how ChatGPT picks its sources:

We put 300 Australian agency-buyer questions to ChatGPT three times each, with search on. It pulled 17,870 search results into those 900 answers and kept 4,389 as sources. Being found is the easy part. About three in four results it reads never make the answer.

Now take a site that blocks OAI-SearchBot. It never enters that pool of results, so it never gets the chance to be the one in four.

## Should your company block AI crawlers?

Block training crawlers only if your content is the product, such as paid research, data or journalism. For most enterprise, B2B SaaS, venture-backed, manufacturing and public-sector sites, allow everything. Those sites exist so buyers can find and understand them, and AI answers now do part of that finding for them every day.

Here's how I'd call it by company type:

| Your company | AI search and user bots | Training bots | Why |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| B2B SaaS | Allow | Allow | You want ChatGPT and Claude to describe your product correctly, and training is one way they learn it |
| Venture-backed startup | Allow | Allow | A new brand needs every source that teaches AI tools it exists |
| Manufacturer | Allow | Allow, except gated spec sheets or CAD libraries | Buyers ask AI tools for suppliers and specs. Keep paid or licensed data out |
| Enterprise with a research arm | Allow | Block on paid report paths only | Public pages should earn citations. Paid research is the product |
| Public sector | Allow | Allow, unless policy says otherwise | Citizens ask AI tools about services. Accurate answers need your pages |
| Publisher or data business | Allow, or negotiate | Block | Your content is what you sell |

That's my recommendation from the operators' docs. If your legal team has a policy on training use, the policy wins.

### A worked example: a B2B SaaS company with docs and paid benchmarks

Take a B2B SaaS company with marketing pages, a public help centre and a paid benchmark report that sits behind a customer login. I'd ship this setup:

- Product, pricing, comparison and help pages stay open to every crawler.
- On `/benchmarks/` only, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot get `Disallow`.
- Search bots stay open everywhere.
- The login wall does the real protecting, because robots.txt can't keep out a bot that ignores it.

The result? The company stays quotable in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and AI Overviews, while its paid data stays out of training at every lab that honours robots.txt. Google rankings don't move.

## How do you block GPTBot and ClaudeBot in robots.txt?

Add a robots.txt group with `Disallow: /` for each crawler you want to stop, and put a copy at the root of every subdomain. OpenAI and Perplexity say changes can take up to 24 hours.

This blocks the main training crawlers and keeps every search crawler open:

```
# Block AI training crawlers
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

# Everyone else, including AI search crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /
```

To block training on one section only, swap `Disallow: /` for the path, such as `Disallow: /benchmarks/`. Want ClaudeBot slower rather than gone? Anthropic supports `Crawl-delay: 1` in the ClaudeBot group.

Before the file goes live, check four things that trip up even experienced teams:

1. A crawler obeys only the most specific group that names it, so give GPTBot its own group and it skips your `User-agent: *` rules. Repeat any shared disallows inside it.
2. Copied templates often block OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot or PerplexityBot by accident.
3. Each subdomain needs its own file, since `docs.yourcompany.com` doesn't inherit the main site's rules.
4. Test the live file after release.

We look for robots.txt mistakes early in every [technical SEO audit](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/services/technical-seo). One wrong line hides a site.

## Can robots.txt stop AI crawlers?

Only the ones that choose to obey it. The standard behind robots.txt, [RFC 9309](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309.html), says it plainly: "These rules are not a form of access authorization". OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity and Apple all say their declared crawlers follow it.

That leaves three gaps, and each one matters if your content has real commercial value:

- **User-triggered fetches.**  OpenAI says robots.txt "may not apply" to ChatGPT-User, and Perplexity says Perplexity-User "generally ignores robots.txt rules".
- **Content already collected.**  A block covers future crawling, which is why Anthropic describes its opt-out as covering a site's "future materials".
- **Undeclared scrapers.**  A bot that lies about its name ignores your file.

Real enforcement lives on the server or the firewall. Most operators publish their crawler IP ranges as JSON files, so a firewall rule can check that a "GPTBot" request comes from OpenAI. Paid content needs a login.

## Is Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers on your site?

It might be, even if nobody on your team touched a setting this year. Since 1 July 2025, Cloudflare asks every new domain whether to allow AI crawlers, with blocking as the default. Then it set a second date. From 15 September 2026, Cloudflare said, training blocks also catch crawlers that do search and training together, naming Googlebot, Applebot and Bingbot.

The line is in [Cloudflare's 1 July 2026 announcement](https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-ai-options): multi-purpose crawlers "will be blocked by customers who have selected to block Training". That applies through the new Training control or the older "Block AI bots" toggle. New domains also get Training and Agent bots blocked by default on pages that show ads.

Picture a large company where someone in IT switched on "Block AI bots" back in 2025 and nobody in marketing ever heard about it. Now that toggle may be turning Googlebot away at the firewall while your robots.txt looks perfect. Remember Google's line about crawling being allowed "by any CDN or hosting infrastructure"? This is it.

If your site sits behind Cloudflare, run this check:

1. Open Security settings in the Cloudflare dashboard.
2. Find the AI traffic controls and see whether Training, Agent or the legacy "Block AI bots" option is on.
3. If Training is blocked, decide deliberately whether to keep it, narrow it or exempt multi-purpose crawlers like Googlebot.
4. Check Search Console's Crawl stats.
5. Look for a drop in Googlebot requests after 15 September 2026, then inspect a key URL live to confirm Google can fetch it.

Fastly, Akamai and AWS WAF have bot rules of their own. Check those too.

## How many websites block GPTBot and ClaudeBot?

About one big site in seven blocks GPTBot. Fewer block the AI search bots. AI Crawler Check parsed the robots.txt files of 4,962 sites from the Tranco top 10,000 on 5 October 2026.

| Crawler | Share of top sites blocking it |
| --- | --- |
| CCBot | 15.4% |
| GPTBot | 14.3% |
| ClaudeBot | 13.4% |
| Google-Extended | 12.0% |
| PerplexityBot | 10.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 7.4% |
| Claude-SearchBot | 7.3% |

Source: [AI Crawler Check robots.txt study](https://aicrawlercheck.com/blog/ai-crawler-robots-txt-study-2026), October 2026.

The same study found 347 of 710 GPTBot blockers still allow OAI-SearchBot. That's the split I'd recommend to a content business: no to training, yes to search.

The case for blocking is real, though. Cloudflare tracks how many pages each AI company crawls per visitor sent back, and Business Insider [reported its figures](https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-openai-google-perplexity-microsoft-mistral-crawling-web-referrals-cloudflare-2026-1) for 1 to 7 January 2026:

| AI company | Crawls per referral |
| --- | --- |
| Anthropic | 65,000 |
| OpenAI | 1,400 |
| Perplexity | 112 |
| Microsoft | 40 |
| Mistral | 11 |
| Google | 5 |

For a publisher living on page views, that's a bad deal. B2B works differently. You sell through the shortlist, the demo and the sales call, and an AI answer can put you on that shortlist without a click.

## What does Searchmaxxed's own robots.txt allow?

Everything. We allow every major AI crawler on searchmaxxed.com, training bots included, because we want ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity to know what we do. Here's our live file on 27 October 2026, with the header comments trimmed:

```
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /api/md/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /cache/

# AI search and answer crawlers
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Allow: /api/md/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /cache/

# AI training crawlers
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /
Allow: /api/md/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /cache/

Sitemap: https://www.searchmaxxed.com/sitemap.xml
```

Three choices in that file are worth copying:

- **Named groups, even when they allow everything.**  If we ever block training, we edit one group and the search bots stay untouched.
- **The same disallows in every group.**  A crawler that matches a named group skips the `*` group, so shared rules have to live in each one.
- **An open markdown copy of each page under `/api/md/`.**  In [Vercel and MERJ's December 2024 tests](https://vercel.com/blog/the-rise-of-the-ai-crawler), none of the major AI crawlers rendered JavaScript. So we hand them plain text.

Beside robots.txt we publish an `ai.txt` and an `llms.txt`, and our `ai.txt` sets out what AI tools may do, including "train: allowed". Both are proposals rather than standards like RFC 9309, so treat them as extras alongside robots.txt and never as a replacement.

## How do you check which AI crawlers visit your site?

Read your logs. Search the server or CDN logs for each bot name in the user-agent field, then confirm the requests come from the operator's published IP ranges. GA4 won't help here, because crawlers don't run its JavaScript tag.

1. Pull 30 days of access logs.
2. Filter on the AI bot names.
3. Match IPs against each operator's list, such as `openai.com/searchbot.json` and `claude.com/crawling/bots.json`.
4. Count hits by bot and by section. Training bots hammering your blog while search bots never reach your product pages points to a site problem.
5. Read the status codes.

A pile of 403 or 429 responses to OAI-SearchBot means your firewall is refusing it.

Analytics has its own trap: fake visits can land in an "AI traffic" report. Here's what we found on an enterprise B2B client's account:

A client's GA4 showed AI-assistant visits jump from 354 to 6,050 in a month. Almost none of it was real. About 5,700 came in three one-hour bursts: same 1920x1080 desktop Chrome, all new users, no referrer, about 20 seconds each, landing on two pages. Real AI traffic was 385 sessions against 354 the month before, roughly flat.

Logs tell you what crawled. Analytics tells you who arrived, once someone has checked it for bots. To watch whether AI answers name you, our guide to [AI visibility tools](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/research/ai-visibility-tools) compares the software.

## How does Searchmaxxed handle AI crawlers for its clients?

As technical SEO. Our technical audits check robots.txt, CDN and firewall rules, server logs and rendering. We fix what blocks Google or the AI engines. Then we confirm it live.

Searchmaxxed is an SEO and AI SEO agency for enterprise, B2B SaaS, venture-backed, manufacturing and public-sector companies. We do technical SEO, content, link building, digital PR, GEO, AEO and LLM SEO. The goal: rank in Google and be the name ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI answers give for the searches that bring pipeline.

On crawler access, the work covers:

- robots.txt in named groups
- training decisions agreed with your legal or data team
- CDN and firewall bot rules checked, so that Googlebot and every AI search bot you want can get through on every key page
- server-side rendering or markdown copies, so crawlers that skip JavaScript still read your pages
- log analysis by bot and section
- crawl stats checked after releases

Crawler access is only the floor of AI visibility. Winning the mention takes pages built for the question and outside sources the engines trust. Our [AI search optimisation service](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/services/ai-search-optimization) covers that side, and [how to rank in ChatGPT](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/research/how-to-rank-in-chatgpt) explains it step by step.

| Package | Who it suits | What it includes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Growth System | A company growing in one or two markets | 30 page releases a month, work on up to four existing pages, one qualified link action a month, AI visibility tracking |
| Agentic Search Engineering | A competitive or national market | 50 page releases a month, comparison and industry pages, digital PR and link campaigns, AI answer tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews |
| Custom & Enterprise | Several brands, several markets or a large site | Dedicated engineering, custom reporting and original first-party research |

Technical work, crawler fixes included, never eats into the page releases. Here's how we run it. We build on a website you own, our Agentic Website. AI agents pull your Search Console and GA4 data and read the Google results. They also check what AI answers say about you and your competitors. That data feeds the Managed Search Loop, which shows which page, fix or link should bring in the most enquiries next. We build it. Then we check the live page and measure what changed.

Searchmaxxed's work has generated more than A$10 million in revenue through search for its clients.

## Is Searchmaxxed right for you?

We suit marketing and growth teams at enterprise, B2B SaaS, venture-backed, manufacturing and public-sector companies who want Google and AI answers handled by one team. Need one robots.txt line changed? Your developer can do that this afternoon with the template above.

| Searchmaxxed is a good fit if | Look elsewhere if |
| --- | --- |
| You want technical SEO, content and AI search work shipped every month | You need a one-off robots.txt edit |
| Your site sits behind Cloudflare or another firewall and nobody owns the bot rules | You want a legal opinion on AI training and copyright |
| You want ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and AI Overviews to name you for buying searches | You sell content and want every AI bot blocked |
| You want to own your site, repository, content and data | You want reports, not changes to your site |
| You want direct access to the people doing the work | You're shopping for the cheapest retainer |

## Frequently asked questions

### Does blocking GPTBot remove my site from ChatGPT?

No. GPTBot only collects training data, while ChatGPT search relies on OAI-SearchBot, so block GPTBot and allow OAI-SearchBot to stay findable in ChatGPT answers.

### Is ClaudeBot safe to allow?

Yes, for most sites. ClaudeBot is Anthropic's declared training crawler, and Anthropic says it obeys robots.txt and Crawl-delay. Fakes do borrow its name, so check suspicious traffic against Anthropic's IP list at `claude.com/crawling/bots.json`.

### Should I block AI crawlers on WordPress or Shopify?

Same rules as any other site. Edit robots.txt through your SEO plugin or the platform's template. Keep the AI search bots open, and decide on the training bots as a separate question for your legal team. Then make sure a security plugin or CDN isn't blocking them anyway.

### Does blocking Google-Extended stop AI Overviews?

No. AI Overviews and AI Mode belong to Google Search and use Googlebot, while Google-Extended covers Gemini training and Gemini grounding outside Search. To limit what AI Overviews show from a page, use `nosnippet`, `data-nosnippet`, `max-snippet` or `noindex`.

### Does blocking AI crawlers save server costs?

Sometimes, on the largest sites. Vercel and MERJ counted 569 million GPTBot requests and 370 million from Claude in one month across Vercel's network in late 2024. A typical B2B site sees far less, and `Crawl-delay` or rate limits ease the load without a block.

### Can AI companies still use content I've blocked?

In some cases, yes. A robots.txt block covers future crawling by bots that obey it. It can't pull back content collected earlier, and scrapers that hide their identity ignore it, so paid or sensitive content belongs behind a login.

### What is OAI-SearchBot?

OpenAI's search crawler. It decides which websites can appear in ChatGPT's search answers, and OpenAI recommends allowing the bot and its IP ranges if you want in.

## What should you do next?

Open your live robots.txt and your CDN's bot settings today, then run one key page through Search Console's URL Inspection to confirm Googlebot gets through. If you'd like us to audit the rest and run your search work, [let's talk pricing](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/contact).

REFERENCES

1. [support page on crawling](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-data-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler)
2. [OpenAI's crawler page](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots)
3. [Google's common crawlers list](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers)
4. [Perplexity's bot guide](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots)
5. [Apple's Applebot page](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829)
6. [guide to AI features](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features)
7. [RFC 9309](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309.html)
8. [Cloudflare's 1 July 2026 announcement](https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-ai-options)
9. [AI Crawler Check robots.txt study](https://aicrawlercheck.com/blog/ai-crawler-robots-txt-study-2026)
10. [reported its figures](https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-openai-google-perplexity-microsoft-mistral-crawling-web-referrals-cloudflare-2026-1)
11. [Vercel and MERJ's December 2024 tests](https://vercel.com/blog/the-rise-of-the-ai-crawler)

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