AI search & answer engines

GrokBot / xAI-SearchBot

xAI (unconfirmed; UA claims x.ai)low confidence

User agents that claim to be xAI (GrokBot/1.0, xAI-SearchBot/1.0 with +https://x.ai). Third-party directories describe xAI-SearchBot as fetching/indexing pages for Grok search and answers; GrokBot's purpose is undisclosed. xAI publishes no crawler documentation.

Dossier

Operator: xAI (unconfirmed; UA claims x.ai)
Documentation: None published
robots.txt token: None documented
Feeds: unknown
Follows robots.txt: Not documentedNo xAI documentation; tokens GrokBot/xAI-SearchBot are observed, not documented.
How to verify: No published method
Names in our logs: grokbotxai-searchbot
Researched: 23 Oct 2026

Observed on New Runtime

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

Requests: 8
Days active: 3 / 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/xai-searchbot
knownagents.comknownagents.com/agents/grokbot