GPTBot
OpenAI · training
- name
- GPTBot
- operator
- OpenAI
- purpose
- training
- ua_substring
- GPTBot
- robots_token
- GPTBot
- respects_robots
- yes
- verify
- published IP ranges at openai.com/gptbot-ranges.json
- notes
- Crawls content that may be used to train OpenAI models.
- canonical_name
- GPTBot
- user_agent_token
- GPTBot
- ua_full
- Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot source
- bot_type
- training
- bot_type_extension
- —
- opt_out_mechanism
- robots.txt disallow (User-agent: GPTBot)
- published_ip_range_url
- https://openai.com/gptbot.json
- asn
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://openai.com/gptbot.json
- reverse_dns_suffix
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- supports_web_bot_auth
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- signature_agent_domain
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- jwks_url
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- verification_methods
published-IP-range- crawl_traffic_share
- 11.48% source
- targeted_content_type
- HTML, text
- documentation_url
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- first_seen_date
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://openai.com/index/gptbot/
- last_verified_date
- 2026-06-15
- block_vs_allow_recommendation
- conditional — training crawler; allow to be represented in OpenAI model knowledge, block via robots.txt to opt out of training. No direct referral.
- citation_referral_value
- low (training; does not itself cite or refer)
- cloudflare_verified_category
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/directory/gptbot
- status
- active
- triples
["GPTBot","operated_by","OpenAI"]["GPTBot","has_bot_type","training"]["GPTBot","verified_via","published-IP-range"]["GPTBot","has_crawl_share","11.48% (Radar 2026-05)"]- attribute_sources
{"claims":["ua_full","user_agent_token","robots_token","published_ip_range_url","documentation_url"],"source":"https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots","last_verified":"2026-06-15"}{"claims":["crawl_traffic_share"],"source":"https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots","last_verified":"2026-06-15"}