What is CohereBot?
CohereBot is a web crawler operated by Cohere, a company that provides large language models and enterprise solutions. This bot collects data from websites to support the development and training of Cohere's language models. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when CohereBot visits your website.
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| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CohereBot/1.0; +https://cohere.com/bot) |
| Operated By | Cohere |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Yes |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Not directly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is CohereBot Visiting My Website?
Your content matched the criteria Cohere set for a training dataset. CohereBot typically discovers pages through external links, sitemaps, and seed lists rather than because someone selected your site individually.
Should I Block CohereBot?
Block CohereBot if you want more control over whether your work is used for AI training. Allowing it may increase the chance that your brand appears in AI-generated answers, but either choice leaves traditional search rankings unchanged. For context, 7% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for CohereBot.
How Do I Block CohereBot Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block CohereBot from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI data scrapers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: CohereBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/coherebot
Disallow: /Insights for CohereBot
As of October 28, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From CohereBot?
CohereBot tends to make broad, high-volume sweeps across many pages. Timing is unpredictable: traffic may remain heavy throughout a collection pass, then stop entirely.
Does CohereBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
CohereBot is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether CohereBot respects it.
Is CohereBot Used for AI Model Training?
Yes. CohereBot collects web content for use in AI training datasets. Blocking it limits future collection but cannot remove content that was collected previously.
Does Blocking CohereBot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Not directly. Blocking CohereBot limits collection for AI training rather than controlling a live AI search index or citation system.
Does CohereBot Access Private Content?
Not through legitimate access. CohereBot primarily targets public content, but some training-data scrapers also attempt to collect gated or paywalled pages. If content loads without authentication, assume it can be collected.
How Can I Verify a Request From CohereBot?
Agent Analytics tracks CohereBot visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "CohereBot". Look for high page counts, short gaps between requests, and deep traversal through linked content. Because CohereBot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
How Is CohereBot Different From Other Cohere Agents?
Cohere operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
- cohere-training-data-crawler: cohere-training-data-crawler is a web crawler operated by Cohere to download training data for its LLMs (Large Language Models) that power its enterprise AI products.
- cohere-ai: cohere-ai is an unconfirmed agent possibly dispatched by Cohere's AI chat products in response to user prompts when it needs to retrieve content on the internet.