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title: "What is GPTBot? OpenAI's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "OpenAI crawler for collecting public content that may improve future models."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/gptbot
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[Home](/) [Bot Directory](/bot-directory) GPTBot

# GPTBot

by OpenAI

AI training AI UA + IP range

Collects pages in bulk to train a model, unconnected to any individual user's question.

OpenAI crawler for collecting public content that may improve future models.

## What it usually means

OpenAI crawled this page as potential training data. This is the crawler most sites choose to allow or block deliberately.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`gptbot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: GPTBot`

Free tools

[Verify a GPTBot request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=gptbot) [Check if your site allows GPTBot](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

## How it's verified

Published IP-range endpoints

-   [https://openai.com/gptbot.json](https://openai.com/gptbot.json)
-   [https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.json](https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.json)
-   [https://openai.com/searchbot.json](https://openai.com/searchbot.json)
-   [https://openai.com/adsbot.json](https://openai.com/adsbot.json)
-   [https://openai.com/chatgpt-connectors.json](https://openai.com/chatgpt-connectors.json)
-   [https://openai.com/chatgpt-agents.json](https://openai.com/chatgpt-agents.json)

Currently loaded ranges (sample) Refreshed Sep 4, 2026

`132.196.86.0/24``172.182.202.0/25``172.182.204.0/24``172.182.207.0/25``172.182.214.0/24``172.182.215.0/24``20.125.66.80/28``20.171.206.0/24``20.171.207.0/24``4.227.36.0/25`

6 IP sources configured

[OpenAI's page for GPTBot](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots)

## Sources

-   [OpenAI crawler docs](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots)
-   [Published IP ranges](https://openai.com/gptbot.json)

## More from OpenAI

[

OAI-SearchBot

OpenAI crawler that builds the search index behind ChatGPT's web results.

](/bot-directory/oai-searchbot)[

ChatGPT-User

User-triggered fetches when ChatGPT opens a page to answer a person.

](/bot-directory/chatgpt-user)[

OAI-AdsBot

OAI-AdsBot is an AI-related crawler operated by OpenAI.

](/bot-directory/oai-adsbot)

## Similar bots

[

AI2Bot

Allen AI

AI2Bot is an AI-related crawler operated by Allen AI.

](/bot-directory/ai2bot)[

AliyunBot

Alibaba

AliyunBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Alibaba.

](/bot-directory/aliyunbot)[

Applebot-Extended

Apple

Robots token controlling whether Apple may use crawled content for Apple Intelligence training.

](/bot-directory/applebot-extended)[

Bytespider

ByteDance

ByteDance crawler collecting public content used to train its AI models.

](/bot-directory/bytespider)

## See if GPTBot has visited your site

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