Which saas platforms
block AI crawlers?
Marketing and docs sites whose discoverability in AI answers drives signups. 198 domains measured; 12 block at least one of the 30 tracked AI crawlers.
12of 198 saas platforms block at least one AI crawler · median access 100%
The AI crawlers these sites block most
Bytespider is blocked most often here, by 8 of 198 sites. What blocking each one means is in the AI crawler directory.
| User-agent | Operator | Purpose | Sites blocking |
|---|---|---|---|
Bytespider | ByteDance | model training | 8 of 198 |
CCBot | Common Crawl | training dataset | 6 of 198 |
AI2Bot | Allen Institute for AI | model training | 4 of 198 |
Amazonbot | Amazon | model training | 4 of 198 |
Diffbot | Diffbot | structured-data extraction | 4 of 198 |
GPTBot | OpenAI | model training | 4 of 198 |
Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | model training | 4 of 198 |
Timpibot | Timpi | training dataset | 4 of 198 |
Every domain in this category
Sorted by the share of tracked AI crawlers permitted, lowest first. Each report shows all 30 verdicts and the robots.txt rule behind them.
Method and caveats are described on the full study page: one robots.txt fetch per domain, resolved against 30 published AI user-agents, reported as the voluntary policy it is.