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title: "What is Kimi-User? Moonshot AI's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "User-triggered fetches when Kimi opens a page to answer a person. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/kimi-user
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# Kimi-User

by Moonshot AI

AI answers AI UA + IP range

Fetches a page when a user asks an assistant to answer with fresh web context.

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

## What it usually means

A person asked an AI assistant a question, and the assistant fetched this URL to answer with fresh context or citations.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`kimi-user`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: Kimi-User`

Free tools

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

## How it's verified

Published IP-range endpoints

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

[Moonshot AI's page for Kimi-User](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-user.json)

## More from Moonshot AI

[

Kimi-SearchBot

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

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

KimiBot

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

](/bot-directory/kimibot)

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

ChatGPT-User

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

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

Claude-User

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

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

Copilot

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User-triggered Microsoft Copilot fetches for AI answers.

](/bot-directory/copilot)

## See if Kimi-User has visited your site

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