AI BOTS · OPENAI
OAI-AdsBot
Visits only landing pages submitted as ChatGPT ads.
- robots.txt behaviour not documented
- Can be verified
- Docs checked 28 Oct 2026
- VerifiableIdentityIP ranges
- Unknownrobots.txtrobots.txt behaviour not documented
- PurposeAdvertisingFor an AI product
- TokenOAI-AdsBotUse it in a User-agent line
robots.txt
The operator does not say whether this bot follows robots.txt.
Block OAI-AdsBot
User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
Disallow: /Allow OAI-AdsBot
User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
Allow: /Quick facts
- robots.txt token
OAI-AdsBot- User agent contains
- OAI-AdsBot
- Operator
- OpenAI
- Category
- AI bots
- Purpose
- Advertising
- robots.txt
- Not documented
- Verification
- Can be verified
- Documentation
- developers.openai.com · checked 28 Oct 2026
If you block it
Ad systems cannot check your landing pages, which can affect ads that point to your site.
Check a visit is real
- Published IP ranges: openai.com/adsbot.json
Where this comes from
The same registry NdovuSEOLabs uses to classify crawler traffic in your server and CDN logs, built from the operator’s own documentation.
Registry version 2026-10-29.1
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