What is Qwantbot?
Qwantbot is the web crawler for Qwant, the French privacy-focused search engine. Based in Europe, it indexes websites while prioritizing user privacy and data protection, offering search results without tracking users. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Qwantbot visits your website.
Category
| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot/1.0; +https://help.qwant.com/bot/) |
| Operated By | Qwant |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Possibly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is Qwantbot Visiting My Website?
Qwantbot is adding new or changed pages to its search index. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or direct submission.
Should I Block Qwantbot?
No, unless you want to remove your pages from that search engine. Qwantbot supplies its index, so blocking it can eliminate your visibility and organic traffic there. Nearly every website should allow this category. For context, 6% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Qwantbot.
How Do I Block Qwantbot Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Qwantbot from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all search engine crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Qwantbot # https://knownagents.com/agents/qwantbot
Disallow: /Insights for Qwantbot
As of October 29, 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
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From Qwantbot?
Qwantbot follows an algorithmic schedule shaped by your site's popularity, update cadence, and domain authority. It generally spreads requests across recurring crawl passes, throttles itself to limit server load, and respects crawl rules more reliably than most other bots.
Does Qwantbot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Qwantbot 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 Qwantbot respects it.
Is Qwantbot Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. Qwantbot is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking Qwantbot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Blocking Qwantbot can remove your pages from the search engine it supplies. That may also affect AI products that rely on the same index, but it does not directly control unrelated AI search services.
Does Qwantbot Access Private Content?
No special access. Qwantbot can reach only content available to anonymous visitors and does not sign in. Make sure sensitive content is not public by mistake.
How Can I Verify a Request From Qwantbot?
Agent Analytics tracks Qwantbot visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Qwantbot". Look for recurring passes that revisit changed pages and discover new ones. Because Qwantbot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
How Is Qwantbot Different From Other Qwant Agents?
Qwant operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
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