- Company
- OpenAI
- Product
- ChatGPT
- Why it visits
- Indexing for AI / search answers
- How to verify
- Published IP list
- User-agent contains
OAI-SearchBot
How to tell a real OAI-SearchBot from a fake
- The user-agent contains
OAI-SearchBot. On its own this proves nothing: fakes copy it. - The visit’s IP address is inside OpenAI’s published list (openai-searchbot, below). If it isn’t, it’s a fake.
IP ranges: openai-searchbot
39 ranges · updated 12 Oct 2026 · source openai.com
Show all 39 ranges
104.210.140.128/28
13.66.216.176/28
135.234.64.0/24
172.182.193.224/28
172.182.193.80/28
172.182.194.144/28
172.182.194.32/28
172.182.195.48/28
172.182.209.208/28
172.182.211.192/28
172.182.213.192/28
172.182.224.0/28
172.203.190.112/28
172.203.190.128/28
172.203.190.80/28
20.14.99.96/28
20.168.18.32/28
20.169.6.224/28
20.169.7.48/28
20.169.77.0/25
20.171.123.64/28
20.171.53.224/28
20.25.151.224/28
20.42.10.176/28
23.102.145.48/28
4.227.36.0/25
40.67.175.0/25
40.90.214.16/28
51.8.102.0/24
74.7.175.128/25
74.7.228.0/25
74.7.228.128/25
74.7.229.0/25
74.7.229.128/25
74.7.230.0/25
74.7.241.128/25
74.7.242.128/25
74.7.243.0/25
74.7.244.0/25
Recent changes to these ranges
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Allow or block OAI-SearchBot in robots.txt
Block it everywhere:
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /
Allow it everywhere:
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Fake bots ignore robots.txt: block them by address in your firewall instead.