What is Kimi-SearchBot?
Kimi-SearchBot is a web crawler operated by Moonshot AI that powers Kimi's search functionality. It analyzes and indexes web pages so they can appear in Kimi search results. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Kimi-SearchBot visits your website.
Category
| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kimi-SearchBot/1.0; +https://kimi.ai/) |
| Operated By | Moonshot AI |
| Source | Official Website |
| Identity |
Verified
Verified Identification
Requests claiming to be this agent can be authenticated using its published verification method. |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Yes |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is Kimi-SearchBot Visiting My Website?
Kimi-SearchBot is updating an AI search index so your pages can appear in its results. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or mentions of your domain.
Should I Block Kimi-SearchBot?
Usually not. Blocking Kimi-SearchBot keeps your pages out of its AI search results and can eliminate referral traffic from that channel. It does not improve traditional search rankings. For context, 7% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Kimi-SearchBot.
How Do I Block Kimi-SearchBot Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Kimi-SearchBot from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI search crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/kimi-searchbot
Disallow: /Insights for Kimi-SearchBot
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.
Robots.txt Compliance
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Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From Kimi-SearchBot?
Kimi-SearchBot revisits your site on a flexible schedule, often requesting several pages in a burst. Activity usually increases when your content changes or its index refreshes, with quiet intervals between crawl passes.
Does Kimi-SearchBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Kimi-SearchBot 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 Kimi-SearchBot respects it.
Is Kimi-SearchBot Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. Kimi-SearchBot is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking Kimi-SearchBot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Yes. Blocking Kimi-SearchBot can keep your pages out of the AI search index it supplies, reducing their eligibility to appear or be cited in that product's answers.
Does Kimi-SearchBot Access Private Content?
No special access. Kimi-SearchBot can reach only content available to anonymous visitors. Make sure staging sites and other sensitive areas require authentication.
How Can I Verify a Request From Kimi-SearchBot?
Agent Analytics tracks visits from Kimi-SearchBot and every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper, then authenticates each visit using Kimi-SearchBot's published verification method. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Kimi-SearchBot". Look for bursts that follow links across several pages and recur over time. A matching log entry alone is not proof because any bot can claim to be Kimi-SearchBot.
How Is Kimi-SearchBot Different From Other Moonshot AI Agents?
Moonshot AI operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
- Kimi-Agent: Kimi-Agent is a browser-enabled AI agent operated by Moonshot AI that browses websites while carrying out user-directed research and other tasks.
- Kimi-User: Kimi-User is a web crawler operated by Moonshot AI that fetches web content on behalf of users interacting with Kimi. When a user asks Kimi to summarize an article or ans…
- KimiBot: KimiBot is a web crawler operated by Moonshot AI that collects public web content used to train Kimi models.
- KimiCrawler: KimiCrawler is a web crawler operated by Moonshot AI that downloads website content for Kimi and related Moonshot AI services.
- MoonshotBot: MoonshotBot is a web crawler operated by Moonshot AI that downloads website content for Kimi and related Moonshot AI services.