GPTBot
Run by OpenAI
OpenAI's crawler that collects public pages for model training.
How Verisoul identifies GPTBot
GPTBot names itself in its user agent. Anyone can copy that, so we only label a session GPTBot when the other signals check out too.
- Not used
Cryptographic
Not needed to identify it
- Used
Network
Source IP confirmed as the operator's own network
- Not used
Device
Not needed to identify it
- Not used
Behavior
Not needed to identify it
Also names itself in its user agent
How often you'll see it
Very common
About 6% of global crawler traffic in September 2026, per Cloudflare Radar
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