AI model crawlers

Qwenbot

Alibaba (unconfirmed; UA claims Qwen)low confidence

Claims to be Alibaba's Qwen crawler (UA 'Qwenbot/1.0; +https://qwen.alibaba.com/'); third-party directories say it collects content for Qwen training and answers. The doc URL they cite (tongyi.aliyun.com/bot) redirects to a 404; no Alibaba documentation found.

Dossier

Operator: Alibaba (unconfirmed; UA claims Qwen)
Documentation: None published
robots.txt token: QwenBot
Feeds: unknown
Follows robots.txt: Not documentedNo operator documentation; directories disagree on compliance.
How to verify: No published method
Names in our logs: qwenbot
Researched: 23 Oct 2026

Observed on New Runtime

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

Requests: 7
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

knownagents.comknownagents.com/agents/qwenbot
tongyi.aliyun.comtongyi.aliyun.com/bot