Moonshot AI · Indexing

Kimi-SearchBot

Identify Kimi-SearchBot 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: Kimi-SearchBot
Indexing: Crawled for AI or search indexing.
Moonshot AI publishes official IP ranges; verify requests against them.

What Kimi-SearchBot is

Kimi-SearchBot analyzes page relevance and builds Kimi's search index. Disallowing it prevents the site from appearing in Kimi search results.

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

Kimi-SearchBot 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 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; Kimi-SearchBot/1.0; +https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers
Case-insensitive match token
Kimi-SearchBot

Official IP ranges

Moonshot AI publishes an official IP range list. This cached snapshot contains 4 CIDR prefixes, last fetched 2026-10-23. Open the live source

Official IP range snapshot
47.79.225.241/32
47.79.230.254/32
47.79.253.42/32
47.79.253.91/32

Verify a Kimi-SearchBot request

For Kimi-SearchBot, compare the source IP from your trusted edge or server against Moonshot AI’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("47.79.225.241/32"))'

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 Kimi-SearchBot with robots.txt

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

Allow Kimi-SearchBot
User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot
Allow: /
Block Kimi-SearchBot
User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot
Disallow: /

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Aiola Analytics

See every Kimi-SearchBot visit on your site

Aiola tracks 70 AI, search and link-preview crawlers next to your human traffic. See when Kimi-SearchBot arrives, which pages it requests and how that changes over time. Hosted Analytics needs Pro or a trial.

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