Manage AI crawlers

AI Audit enables you to take specific action for each AI crawler.

To manage AI crawlers:

1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard ↗, and select your account and domain.
2. Go to AI Audit.
3. Go to the AI Crawlers tab.

View the list of AI crawlers

The AI Crawlers tab displays a table of AI crawlers that are requesting access to your content, and how they interact with your pages. The table provides the following information.

Free plan

Column	Details
AI Crawlers	The name of the AI crawler.
Operator	The name of the entity who owns the AI crawler. Note that an operator may have multiple AI crawlers.
Category	The category of the AI crawler. Refer to Verified bot categories.
Block	Toggle for blocking specific AI crawlers.

Paid plan

Column	Details
AI Crawlers	The name of the AI crawler.
Operator	The name of the entity who owns the AI crawler. Note that an operator may have multiple AI crawlers.
Category	The category of the AI crawler. Refer to Verified bot categories.
Requests	The number of times the AI crawler has requested to crawl your content.
Robots.txt violations	The number of times the AI crawler has violated your robots.txt file.
Action	The action you wish to take for the AI crawler. Refer to Take action for each AI crawler.

Quality of AI crawler detection

On the free plan, AI Audit identifies AI crawlers based on their user agent strings ↗. This enables AI Audit to detect easy-to-detect (well-known) AI crawlers.

Upgrade your plan to enable a more thorough detection using Cloudflare's Bot Management detection ID field.

Take action for each AI crawler

With pay per crawl

Pay per crawl closed beta

Pay per crawl is currently in closed beta.

To find out how to join the beta program, reach out to us at Pay per crawl signup ↗, or contact your account executive if you are an existing Enterprise customer.

To learn more about pay per crawl, refer to Cloudflare blog: Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access ↗.

For each AI crawler, you can take one of three actions: allow, charge, or block.

Allow access

You can allow an AI crawler to scrape your content.

From the Actions column, select Allow.

Note that you can still choose to Enforce robots.txt.

For more details on how this rule interacts with other Cloudflare settings, refer to How it works.

Charge for crawl (Enterprise only)

You can charge the owner of the AI crawler for each crawl request.

From the Actions column, select Charge.

For more information, refer to What is Pay Per Crawl?.

Block access

You can block an AI crawler to completely stop the AI crawler from scraping your webpage.

From the Actions column, select Block.

Without pay per crawl

For each AI crawler, you can choose to allow or block access.

Allow access

You can allow an AI crawler to scrape your content. Note that you can still choose to Enforce robots.txt.

For more details on how this rule interacts with other Cloudflare settings, refer to How it works.

Block access

You can block an AI crawler to completely stop the AI crawler from scraping your webpage.

Use the toggles in the Block column to block specific AI crawlers from accessing your content.

Filter AI crawler data

You can use filters to narrow the scope of your result.

• Name: Search the name of the AI crawler.
• Operator: Filter by the AI crawler operator.
• Category: Filter by the category of the AI crawler (for example, AI crawler, AI assistant, or archiver).

The values of the table will update according to your filter.

Related resources

• Use pay per crawl to charge AI crawlers every time they access your content.