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title: "What is Kimi-SearchBot? Moonshot AI's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "Moonshot AI crawler that builds the index behind Kimi's web answers. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/kimi-searchbot
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# Kimi-SearchBot

by Moonshot AI

AI indexing AI UA + IP range

Builds the index an AI assistant searches when it needs to find and cite a source.

Moonshot AI crawler that builds the index behind Kimi's web answers.

## What it usually means

Moonshot AI is indexing this page so Kimi can cite it.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`kimi-searchbot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot`

Free tools

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

## How it's verified

Published IP-range endpoints

-   [https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-searchbot.json](https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-searchbot.json)

[Moonshot AI's page for Kimi-SearchBot](https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers)

## Sources

-   [Moonshot AI crawler docs](https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers)
-   [Published IP ranges](https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-searchbot.json)

## More from Moonshot AI

[

Kimi-User

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

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

KimiBot

Moonshot AI crawler collecting public content that may be used to improve Kimi.

](/bot-directory/kimibot)

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## See if Kimi-SearchBot has visited your site

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