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cohere-ai

Cohere's crawler that collects web pages to train AI models.

In robots.txt: User-agent: cohere-ai

Named by3.5%of readable robots.txt files on the top 1M (21,203 of 600,979)

Of those, block it66.9%shut it out of the whole site (14,190 of 21,203)

Same sites, since CC-MAIN-2026-34+0.1 ptsshare of the same 394,690 sites that block it by name: 1.5% → 1.6%

Via Cloudflare's file1.8%of its blocks come from Cloudflare's ready-made robots.txt (261 of 14,190)

66.9%

22.8%

10.3%

Block the whole site: 14,190Block some paths: 4,832Name it but allow it: 2,181

Every robots.txt file on the top 1M that names cohere-ai, by what the rules that apply to it say.

Cohere's other bots

Sites often treat one company's bots differently, depending on what each is for.

Bot	Purpose	Files naming it	Of those, block it
cohere-training-data-crawler	Collects pages to train AI	5,298	71.3%

Who does what

The highest-ranked sites on the top million in each group. Click one to see its whole robots.txt verdict.

Block it

Block some paths

Name it and allow it

Lists skip sites we don't showcase (adult content).

What this means for you: blocking cohere-ai asks Cohere not to collect your pages for AI training from now on. robots.txt only affects future visits, and it doesn't touch Cohere's other bots. Decide each bot on what it's for, not who runs it.