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AI Crawler Checker

Updated October 8, 2026

Overview / Description

AI Crawler Checker is an AI SEO tool that checks whether a website's robots.txt file allows or blocks specific AI crawlers for site owners who want control over how bots like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended access their content. You enter a domain and the free checker reads the live robots.txt, applies RFC 9309 parsing rules, and returns a per-bot verdict: allowed, partial block, root-path block, or no applicable rule. It groups AI bots into three jobs so the result is actionable rather than a raw rule dump: crawlers that collect training data, crawlers that index for AI search and answers, and bots that fetch on-demand for a user request. The tool shows the original robots.txt content alongside the decision and generates copy-paste blocking snippets so you can tighten policy without hand-writing directives. For publishers deciding where to draw the line between keeping content out of model training and staying visible in AI answer engines, it turns an opaque file into a readable report. No account or registration is required to run a check. Paid add-ons extend it with a downloadable playbook of robots.txt templates and server configs, and an automated monitoring badge that re-checks policy over time. This is one of the more focused AI crawler robots.txt checkers in the BestAIFor directory.

Used For

Checking which AI crawlers your robots.txt allows or blocks and generating the snippets to change that.

Pricing

Core checker

Free

Free — unlimited domain checks, no registration

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AI Crawler Control Playbook

$12/month

$12 one-time — bot analysis, robots.txt templates, server config files, Korean version

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Plan

$19/month

AI Crawler Policy Auto-Check Badge: $19 — automated checking with a 365-day public results badge

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Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Free domain check with no registration required
  • Per-bot verdict (allowed, partial, root block, no rule) using RFC 9309 parsing
  • Groups AI bots by purpose: training collection, AI search indexing, on-demand fetch
  • Generates copy-paste robots.txt blocking snippets for each bot
  • Shows the live robots.txt content next to the decision

Cons

  • Core tool only reads robots.txt; it does not enforce or verify that bots actually obey the rules
  • Scope is narrow — a single-purpose checker, not a broader SEO or analytics suite
  • Advanced features (templates playbook, auto-check badge) are paid one-off add-ons
  • Hosted on a workers.dev subdomain rather than a dedicated domain

Questions & Answers

Alternatives

Dark Visitors, robots.txt testers in Google Search Console, Cloudflare AI bot controls

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