AI searchBlocking it costs you visibility
ExaSearchBot
Exa is the retrieval layer behind a long tail of AI products and agents.
- robots.txt token
ExaSearchBotExaBot- Operator
- Exa ↗
- Powers
- Exa search API used by many AI apps
- Honours robots.txt
- Not documented
Allow it
User-agent: ExaSearchBot
Allow: /Block it
User-agent: ExaSearchBot
User-agent: ExaBot
Disallow: /Need the whole file, with every crawler and your private paths — and the llms.txt to go with it? The generator writes them. AI config generator →
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExaSearchBot/1.0; +https://exa.ai) Crawlable/1.0; +https://crawlable.fr/probeThis is the string we send when probing. The Crawlable suffix identifies us in your logs.
Check your own site
robots.txt is only half the answer: your CDN can refuse ExaSearchBot before it ever reads the file. A scan checks both.
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