Kagi · Indexing

Kagibot

Identify Kagibot by its user agent. Check request identity, review robots.txt controls and track visits in Aiola Analytics.

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Key facts

User-agent token: Kagibot
Indexing: Crawled for AI or search indexing.
Kagi publishes official IP ranges; verify requests against them.

What Kagibot is

Kagibot indexes pages for Kagi search. Kagi publishes four IP addresses on its bot page.

In Aiola's taxonomy, Indexing means crawled for ai or search indexing.

Kagibot user agent

Look for the match token inside the complete HTTP User-Agent header. Tokens can be spoofed, so use the network checks below for authentication.

Full example User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kagibot/1.0; +https://kagi.com/bot)
Case-insensitive match token
Kagibot

Official IP ranges

Kagi publishes an official IP range list. This cached snapshot contains 4 CIDR prefixes, last fetched 2026-11-13. Open the live source

Official IP range snapshot
216.18.205.234/32
35.212.27.76/32
104.254.65.50/32
209.151.156.194/32

Verify a Kagibot request

For Kagibot, compare the source IP from your trusted edge or server against Kagi’s current published prefixes.

Test one CIDR in Python (replace REQUEST_IP)
python3 -c 'import ipaddress; print(ipaddress.ip_address("REQUEST_IP") in ipaddress.ip_network("216.18.205.234/32"))'

Test every current prefix in the vendor feed and re-fetch it regularly. This cached snapshot is evidence of publication, not a permanent firewall list.

Control Kagibot with robots.txt

Kagi documents crawler controls for this bot family. Robots.txt can direct cooperative crawling, but it cannot prove that a request is authentic.

Allow Kagibot
User-agent: Kagibot
Allow: /
Block Kagibot
User-agent: Kagibot
Disallow: /

Read official crawler documentation

Aiola Analytics

See every Kagibot visit on your site

Aiola tracks 80 AI, search and link-preview crawlers next to your human traffic, revenue and errors. See when Kagibot arrives, which pages it requests and which requests fail. Then ask a coding agent in the same app to fix those pages. Track Kagibot visits with AI crawler analytics.

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