Moonshot AI · Training

KimiBot

Identify KimiBot 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: KimiBot
Training: Scraped for model training or dataset development.
Moonshot AI publishes official IP ranges; verify requests against them.

What KimiBot is

KimiBot collects content potentially used to train Kimi's foundation models. A KimiBot disallow signals that content should not be used for model training.

In Aiola's taxonomy, Training means scraped for model training or dataset development.

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

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 KimiBot request

For KimiBot, 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 KimiBot 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 KimiBot
User-agent: KimiBot
Allow: /
Block KimiBot
User-agent: KimiBot
Disallow: /

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Aiola Analytics

See every KimiBot visit on your site

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

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