AI Bot Readiness Checker
Check which AI crawlers and search engines can access your website via robots.txt and live requests.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the AI Bot Readiness Checker analyze?
It reviews robots.txt access rules for search engines and 18 AI crawlers, grouped into AI search bots (OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Meta-WebIndexer), user-request fetchers, and training bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and others).
What is the difference between GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot?
GPTBot collects content that may be used to train OpenAI models. OAI-SearchBot decides whether your pages can appear in ChatGPT search answers. OpenAI controls them separately, so you can block GPTBot to opt out of training and still allow OAI-SearchBot.
Why should I check AI crawler access?
AI crawler access can affect how easily AI search and answer engines discover public content, documentation, and brand information from your site.
How does the live access test work?
It requests your page once as a normal browser and once as each of 8 AI bots from OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity (their search, user-request and training crawlers), then compares the answers. A bot that is refused or shown a challenge page while the browser gets the page is flagged. The requests come from CrawlBeacon’s server, not from the AI companies, so a firewall that verifies bots by IP address may treat the real bots differently.