Does cohere-ai respect robots.txt?

Not documented. No operator statement says whether cohere-ai reads robots.txt, so add the rule but verify in your logs that the requests actually stop.

How do I block cohere-ai?

Add the cohere-ai token to robots.txt with Disallow: /. If the crawler ignores robots.txt, match the user agent at your CDN or reverse proxy and return 403 there instead.

IPScanner

Training crawlers

cohere-ai

Q: How do I verify a request really came from cohere-ai?

You cannot, at least not from the request itself. Cohere publishes no IP range list for this token. The separate cohere-training-data-crawler token is the one aimed at model training. Compare the source IP against hosting and datacenter ranges instead, and rate limit anything that behaves like a crawler.

cohere-ai is a bot operated by Cohere that collects pages used to train AI models. Retrieves data based on user prompts. 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.

cohere-ai at a glance

Reference data for the cohere-ai crawler
User agent	`cohere-ai` Token only. The operator has not published a full user-agent string, so match on the substring rather than an exact header.
Operator	Cohere
Purpose	Retrieves data to provide responses to user-initiated prompts.
Respects robots.txt	Not documented
Verification method	None published, user agent only Cohere publishes no IP range list for this token. The separate cohere-training-data-crawler token is the one aimed at model training.
Crawl pattern	Takes action based on user prompts.
Robots.txt tokens	`cohere-ai`
Operator documentation	None published

Retrieves data based on user prompts.

robots.txt

Allow or block cohere-ai

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.

Block cohere-ai

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

Blocks every path for this crawler only.

Allow cohere-ai

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

Explicit allow. Useful when a wildcard rule above it would otherwise catch this crawler.

Allow, except the pages you never want quoted

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /search

Edit the Disallow paths to match your own account, checkout and search URLs.

What blocking actually costs you

Blocking cohere-ai 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 once

Verification

Is that really cohere-ai?

A user-agent header is a string the client chooses. Scrapers copy cohere-ai precisely because site owners allow it. Cohere publishes no IP range list for this token. The separate cohere-training-data-crawler token is the one aimed at model training.

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.

Datacenter IP detectionNearly every real AI crawler egresses from cloud ranges. A residential IP claiming to be one is the first thing to check.IP reputation checkSee whether the address behind a fake crawler hit has a history of abuse elsewhere.Residential proxy detectionScrapers that get blocked by user agent often come back through residential proxy pools.

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Identify crawlers automatically instead of by hand

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