Which AI bots can the AI Traffic Monitor detect?
As AI-powered tools and models become a core part of how users discover content, it’s essential to know which AI crawlers are interacting with your website. Scalenut’s AI Traffic Monitor, a specialized feature within the AI Visibility module, gives you deep transparency into this non-human traffic.
When you connect your website through Cloudflare, the AI Traffic Monitor starts detecting visits from the most active AI bots and scrapers. This gives you factual insight into how your content is being accessed, interpreted, and potentially referenced by Large Language Models (LLMs) and search engines.
Note: Integration with Cloudflare is required to enable the AI Traffic Monitor to capture "Edge-based" bot data.
The 16 AI Bots Detected by AI Traffic Monitor
Below are the primary AI crawlers and user agents that the system identifies in real-time:
Bing Bot: Microsoft’s core crawler for Bing search and Bing Chat (Copilot).
ChatGPT User: Triggered when a ChatGPT user asks the model to browse your specific URL.
Google Bot: The primary crawler for Google Search and AI Overviews.
GPT Bot: OpenAI's main crawler used for training future GPT models.
Claude Bot: Anthropic’s crawler for training the Claude family of models.
OAI-SearchBot: OpenAI's specialized bot for real-time search and citations.
Amazon Bot: Used by Amazon to crawl content for Alexa and shopping AIs.
Perplexity Bot: The persistent crawler used by Perplexity to build its index.
Apple Bot: Powers the Siri and Apple Intelligence discovery features.
DuckAssist Bot: The bot for DuckDuckGo’s AI-generated search snippets.
Pinterest Bot: Crawls for visual discovery and Pinterest's internal recommendation AI.
Google Ads Bot: Checks landing page quality for ad relevancy and AI-driven ad copy.
ClearScope Bot: An AI-powered SEO crawler that analyzes content for optimization.
DragonBot: A specialized SEO crawler used for tracking rankings and competitive data.
Google Bot Image: Specifically indexes visual content for Google’s AI and Image search.
Perplexity User: Triggered when a Perplexity user initiates a "Pro" search to fetch live data from your site.
Why It Matters
Understanding which bots are visiting your site—and how often—helps you:
Identify Your "AI Superstars": See which pages are being crawled most frequently by OAI-SearchBot or Perplexity Bot, as these are the pages most likely to be cited in AI answers.
Monitor Machine Trust: Track visits from training bots like GPT Bot or Claude Bot to see how often AI models are "learning" from your brand's expertise.
Differentiate Traffic: Separate bot crawls from real human visitors to ensure your conversion metrics remain accurate and untainted by automated activity.