DeepSeekBot
DeepSeekBot is a bot operated by DeepSeek that collects pages used to train AI models. DeepSeekBot is a web crawler used by DeepSeek to train its language models and improve its AI products. No IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine and a robots.txt rule alone will not stop a forgery.
DeepSeekBot at a glance
| User agent | DeepSeekBotToken only. The operator has not published a full user-agent string, so match on the substring rather than an exact header. |
|---|---|
| Operator | DeepSeek |
| Purpose | Training language models and improving AI products |
| Respects robots.txt | No |
| Verification method | None published, user agent only No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof. |
| Crawl pattern | Not published |
| Robots.txt tokens | DeepSeekBot |
| Operator documentation | None published |
DeepSeekBot is a web crawler used by DeepSeek to train its language models and improve its AI products.
Allow or block DeepSeekBot
Paste one of these into the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Rules are per token, so a block on one crawler leaves every other bot untouched. DeepSeekBot is documented as ignoring robots.txt, so treat the block below as a statement of intent and enforce it at your CDN.
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /Blocks every path for this crawler only.
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Allow: /Explicit allow. Useful when a wildcard rule above it would otherwise catch this crawler.
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /searchEdit the Disallow paths to match your own account, checkout and search URLs.
What blocking actually costs you
Blocking DeepSeekBot keeps your pages out of the next training run. It does not remove anything already collected, and it has no effect on how the site ranks in ordinary search.
Block every crawler in the directory at onceIs that really DeepSeekBot?
A user-agent header is a string the client chooses. Scrapers copy DeepSeekBot precisely because site owners allow it. No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof.
Paste the IP address from your access log below. You will see whether it belongs to a hosting provider, a residential proxy pool or a Tor exit, plus the ASN that announces it, which is what tells you whether the claim holds up.
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