AI search & answer engines

Kimi bots

Moonshot AI's Kimi crawlers: KimiBot crawls content potentially used to train Kimi foundation models; Kimi-SearchBot builds the index for Kimi search; Kimi-User fetches pages for user-initiated actions. 'MoonshotBot' is listed only by third-party directories and is not on Moonshot's crawler page.

Dossier

Operator: Moonshot AI
Documentation: kimi.ai
robots.txt token: KimiBotKimi-SearchBotKimi-User
Feeds: model training, search index, live answer fetch
Follows robots.txt: Partly, per its documentationKimiBot and Kimi-SearchBot obey robots.txt; for Kimi-User 'robots.txt rules may not directly apply'.
How to verify: Published IP rangeskimi.ai
Names in our logs: kimibotkimi-searchbotkimi-usermoonshotbot
Researched: 23 Oct 2026

Observed on New Runtime

Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…

Requests: 17
Days active: 2 / 93
First seen: 25 Sept 2026
Last seen: 21 Oct 2026

Returningother_bot

Daily requests across the observed window, square-root scale.

Identity check claimed vs verified

No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.

What it reads crawler journeys · current window

The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.

Sources

kimi.aiwww.kimi.ai/policies/kimi-crawlers
knownagents.comknownagents.com/agents/kimi-searchbot
knownagents.comknownagents.com/agents/kimibot
knownagents.comknownagents.com/agents/moonshotbot