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Moonshot AITraining crawler

KimiBot

KimiBot is a Moonshot AI crawler for content that may be used to improve its Kimi models.

Training only. It does not decide whether you appear in answers.

Is KimiBot allowed on your site?3 Moonshot AI bots

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

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

Should you block KimiBot?

Only if you want your pages kept out of training. Kimi finds and cites pages through Kimi-SearchBot and Kimi-User, which a KimiBot rule does not touch.

What blocking each Moonshot AI bot does
Moonshot AI botJobIf you block it
KimiBotThis pageTrainingBlocking it opts your content out of Kimi training use without affecting Kimi’s search retrieval crawler.
Kimi-SearchBotSearchBlocking 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: KimiBot
Disallow: /

Asks KimiBot 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; KimiBot/1.0; +https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers

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

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    Match the name

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

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    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/kimibot.json

Is this really KimiBot?

Published addresses

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

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.

KimiBot is a Moonshot AI crawler for content that may be used to improve its Kimi models.

Sources.

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

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    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.

See which AI crawlers read your site.

Trakkr shows which bots, KimiBot included, visit which pages each day, and whether the answers they feed mention you.

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