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Kimi-User

Identify Kimi-User 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-User
AI answers: Fetched to answer a user's question now.
Moonshot AI publishes official IP ranges; verify requests against them.

What Kimi-User is

Kimi-User handles user-initiated actions such as article summaries and live web retrieval. It is not a bulk crawler, and robots.txt rules may not directly apply.

In Aiola's taxonomy, AI answers means fetched to answer a user's question now.

Kimi-User 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-User/1.0; +https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers
Case-insensitive match token
Kimi-User

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-User request

For Kimi-User, 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-User with robots.txt

Kimi-User is user-triggered. Moonshot AI's controls may differ from automated crawling, so do not assume a robots.txt block is an authentication boundary.

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

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Aiola Analytics

See every Kimi-User visit on your site

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

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