Check AI Bots

Check AI Bots is a free AI crawler visibility checker built for site owners, SEOs, and marketers who want to know whether the bots that power AI answers can actually reach their pages. Paste any public URL and the tool reads robots.txt against forty major AI crawlers — including GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and many more — then shows who is allowed in and who is blocked.
That clarity matters because search is shifting from clickable result lists toward answer engines. If a retrieval crawler cannot fetch your content, you quietly disappear from AI citations even when your classic SEO looks fine. The most expensive mistake is often accidental: blocking a retrieval bot while trying to limit training, or leaving an outdated disallow that no longer matches how crawlers identify themselves. Check AI Bots surfaces those gaps in one pass so you can fix policy before traffic and brand mentions leak away.
The product stays simple on purpose. There is no account wall, no download, and no paywall between you and the report. Enter a URL, run the check, and read an instant breakdown that separates training-oriented agents from retrieval-oriented ones where that distinction is known. Use it on your own site, a client property, or a competitor when you need a fast second opinion on AI visibility.
People use Check AI Bots when they are updating robots.txt, launching a content site into AI search, auditing agencies' crawl policies, or teaching teams why "block all bots" is not a privacy strategy for modern discovery. Developers use it as a quick sanity check after deploys. Consultants use it to show clients which named crawlers still cannot see them. Publishers use it when an AI assistant stops citing pages that used to appear.
Unlike a generic robots.txt viewer, the focus is the AI crawler set that actually shapes answer engines today, with enough coverage that weekly user-agent churn is easier to track. The goal is practical visibility: know who can reach you, decide intentionally what to allow, and keep the door open for the crawlers that put you in AI answers — without signing up or installing anything.