GPTBot checker
Understand GPTBot training permissions alongside ChatGPT search access. Get the full report and exact fixes.
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OpenAI access has separate controls
OAI-SearchBot supports ChatGPT search discovery. GPTBot relates to potential model-training crawls. Allowing either creates access for its purpose; it does not guarantee selection, ranking or citation.
Use the full AI crawler matrix when wildcard groups or multiple agents interact.
Verification workflow
- 1. Scan and record the matching group and directive.
- 2. Decide separately whether you want search and training access.
- 3. Edit the real production robots.txt without removing private-path rules.
- 4. Publish, bypass any stale CDN cache, and rescan.
- 5. Test important URLs and monitor actual ChatGPT referrals separately.
What we check
GPTBot is OpenAI's crawler for gathering content that may be used to train future models. It's separate from OAI-SearchBot, which powers live citations — so your GPTBot rule is a training decision, not a visibility one.
- Whether GPTBot is explicitly allowed or disallowed in robots.txt
- Whether a wildcard rule unintentionally affects GPTBot
- Response behaviour when GPTBot's user-agent requests your pages
Passing technical checks is only the starting point. Read why your site might not show up in ChatGPT to work through access, rendering and content issues before expecting citations.
See exactly what is tested and what a score cannot prove in the scan methodology and limitations.
Crawlers involved
GPTBot
OpenAI
Crawls public content that may be used to train future OpenAI models.
OpenAI crawler documentation ↗Explore the related checker →Common problems
No explicit rule either way
Without a specific directive, default crawling behaviour may not match what you actually intend.
Blocked via generic bot rule
A security plugin's "block all bots" setting often catches GPTBot along with genuinely malicious traffic.
How to fix them
Add an explicit directive
Write `User-agent: GPTBot` followed by `Allow: /` or `Disallow: /` so the decision is intentional, not incidental.
Frequently asked
Does disallowing GPTBot hurt my Google ranking?
No. GPTBot is unrelated to Googlebot and Google Search ranking. They're entirely separate crawlers operated by different companies.
Is there a downside to allowing GPTBot?
Allowing it means public content may be used in future model training data. Some publishers are comfortable with this; others prefer to opt out. There's no universally correct answer.
Primary documentation
Crawler descriptions were reviewed 2026-09-12. Product behavior can change; verify decisions against the current source.