Bingbot
Microsoft · search
- name
- Bingbot
- operator
- Microsoft
- purpose
- search
- ua_substring
- bingbot
- robots_token
- Bingbot
- respects_robots
- yes
- verify
- reverse DNS to search.msn.com + forward-confirm; Bing publishes a verification tool and IP list
- notes
- Powers Bing and, by extension, Copilot search grounding.
- canonical_name
- Bingbot
- user_agent_token
- bingbot
- ua_full
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0
- bot_type
- search-index
- bot_type_extension
- —
- opt_out_mechanism
- robots.txt disallow (User-agent: Bingbot)
- published_ip_range_url
- https://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingbot.json
- asn
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingbot.json
- reverse_dns_suffix
- .search.msn.com source
- supports_web_bot_auth
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/how-to-verify-bingbot-3905dc26
- signature_agent_domain
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/how-to-verify-bingbot-3905dc26
- jwks_url
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/how-to-verify-bingbot-3905dc26
- verification_methods
published-IP-rangereverse-DNS- crawl_traffic_share
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
- targeted_content_type
- HTML, text
- documentation_url
- https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/how-to-verify-bingbot-3905dc26
- first_seen_date
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingbot
- last_verified_date
- 2026-06-15
- block_vs_allow_recommendation
- allow — primary search-index crawler for Bing and Copilot grounding; blocking forfeits both classic search and AI-answer citation.
- citation_referral_value
- high (powers Bing search and Copilot grounding; cites and refers)
- cloudflare_verified_category
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/directory/bingbot
- status
- active
- triples
["Bingbot","operated_by","Microsoft"]["Bingbot","has_bot_type","search-index"]["Bingbot","verified_via","published-IP-range"]["Bingbot","verified_via","reverse-DNS"]- attribute_sources
{"claims":["published_ip_range_url"],"source":"https://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingbot.json","last_verified":"2026-06-15"}{"claims":["reverse_dns_suffix","documentation_url"],"source":"https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/how-to-verify-bingbot-3905dc26","last_verified":"2026-06-15"}