# Kagibot

> The crawler for Kagi, a paid, ad-free search engine with its own index and its own assistant.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | Kagi |
| category | Search engines |
| robots.txt token | `Kagibot` |
| user-agent contains | `Kagibot` |
| robots.txt | obeys robots.txt (documented) |
| verify by | no published verification method |
| published IP ranges | none published |
| prefixes mirrored | 0 IPv4 / 0 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://kagi.com/bot |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## What blocking it costs you

You leave Kagi's index. Kagi's users are paying to search and skew technical; per visitor this is an expensive block.

## Full user-agent string

```
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kagibot/1.0; +https://kagi.com/bot)
```

## Block it

```
User-agent: Kagibot
Disallow: /
```

## Allow it

```
User-agent: Kagibot
Allow: /
```

JSON: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/kagibot.json · index: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/llms.txt