Kimi-SearchBot
Builds the search index for Kimi, Moonshot AI's assistant. Moonshot publishes its IP ranges.
What happens if you block it
Moonshot says your site won't appear in Kimi search results.
Our take
Keep it if you want to show up in Kimi.
robots.txt
To block it:
User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot Disallow: /
To allow it explicitly (useful when a wider rule blocks other bots):
User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot Allow: /
The operator's own words
Kimi-SearchBot powers Kimi's search features: it analyzes pages for relevance and builds the search index.月之暗面 Kimi documentation, checked 2026-11-02
robots.txt allows it, but is it really getting through?
A firewall or CDN rule can reject Kimi-SearchBot even when robots.txt welcomes it, and nothing in your CMS shows it. Our check sends a live request as Kimi-SearchBot alongside a normal browser and a Googlebot control, so a bot-verification rule isn't mistaken for a block.
Other 月之暗面 Kimi agents
Kimi-User
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Fetches pages when a Kimi user asks it to read a page or answer with live web results.
KimiBot
月之暗面 Kimi
Kimi's training crawler.
Can Kimi-SearchBot reach your site?
Free, no sign-up. We request your homepage as 13 different clients and show what each one gets.