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title: "What is KimiBot? Moonshot AI's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "Moonshot AI crawler collecting public content that may be used to improve Kimi."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/kimibot
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# KimiBot

by Moonshot AI

AI training AI UA + IP range

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

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

## What it usually means

Moonshot AI crawled this page as potential training data for its Kimi models.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`kimibot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: KimiBot`

Free tools

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

## How it's verified

Published IP-range endpoints

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

[Moonshot AI's page for KimiBot](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/kimibot.json)

## More from Moonshot AI

[

Kimi-SearchBot

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

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

Kimi-User

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

](/bot-directory/kimi-user)

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[

AI2Bot

Allen AI

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

](/bot-directory/ai2bot)[

AliyunBot

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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 KimiBot has visited your site

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