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Kimi-SearchBot

Kimi-SearchBot is a Moonshot AI search crawler that indexes pages so they can be retrieved and cited in Kimi answers.

Needed to be found and cited in Kimi.

Get the robots.txt ruleMoonshot AI documentation
Is Kimi-SearchBot allowed on your site?3 Moonshot AI bots
  • KimiBotTraining
    Not checked
  • Kimi-SearchBotSearch
    Not checked
  • Kimi-UserUser fetch
    Not checked

Reads your live robots.txt and applies the same rules these crawlers use. Nothing is stored.

robots.txt token
Kimi-SearchBot
Follows robots.txt
Yes, documented
How to verify it
Published IP ranges
Seen on
Not measured
Last checked
11 August 2026

Should you block Kimi-SearchBot?

Not if you want to be found in Kimi. Blocking it can remove your pages from the sources Kimi retrieves and cites.

What blocking each Moonshot AI bot does
Moonshot AI botJobIf you block it
KimiBotTrainingBlocking it opts your content out of Kimi training use without affecting Kimi’s search retrieval crawler.
Kimi-SearchBotThis pageSearchBlocking it can remove your pages from the sources Kimi retrieves and cites.
Kimi-UserUser fetchBlocking it can stop Kimi from reading your page when a user asks about it directly.
robots.txt
User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot
Disallow: /

Asks Kimi-SearchBot not to crawl any page. Other Moonshot AI bots are unaffected. Add it to the robots.txt file at the root of your site, above any wider rules.

Ignored robots.txt?

Spot it in your logs.

Match the name, then check where the request came from. Anyone can copy a user-agent.

User-agentsource
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; Kimi-SearchBot/1.0; +https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers

Version numbers change. Match the highlighted name, not the whole string.

  1. 1

    Match the name

    Search your server or CDN log for Kimi-SearchBot, case-insensitive. A match is a clue, not proof.

  2. 2

    Check the published IP ranges

    Compare the request’s source with the list Moonshot AI publishes. Anything outside it is not Moonshot AI. kimi.com/policies/kimi-searchbot.json

Is this really Kimi-SearchBot?

Published addresses

Paste an address that claims to be Kimi-SearchBot. It is checked against Moonshot AI’s published list. Nothing is stored.

Check any crawler’s address

Serve the content in HTML

The cited operator material does not verify JavaScript rendering. Serve useful HTML before client-side JavaScript where possible.

Questions, answered.

Kimi-SearchBot is a Moonshot AI search crawler that indexes pages so they can be retrieved and cited in Kimi answers.

Sources.

Officially documented. Operator facts and Trakkr’s measurements keep separate dates.

  1. [1]
    Moonshot AI crawler documentation

    Officially documented · checked 11 August 2026

    www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers

First verified 11 August 2026. Last source check 11 August 2026.

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