AI model crawlers
GPTBot
OpenAI's crawler for content that may be used to train its generative AI foundation models.
Dossier
- Operator
- OpenAI
- Documentation
- developers.openai.com
- robots.txt token
GPTBot- Feeds
- model training
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes, per its documentationDisallowing GPTBot signals content should not be used for training; controlled separately from OAI-SearchBot, and one crawl may serve both if both are allowed.
- How to verify
- Published IP rangesopenai.com
- Names in our logs
gptbot- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 2,236
- Days active
- 43 / 93
- First seen
- 23 Jul 2026
- Last seen
- 22 Oct 2026
Returningai_crawler
Identity check claimed vs verified
- claimed unverified8 reqofficial cidr
- verified2 reqofficial cidr
What it reads crawler journeys · current window
- Content pages0
- Feeds & discovery2
- Machine-consumption0
0 unique materials · 0 canonical pages
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- developers.openai.comdevelopers.openai.com/api/docs/bots