DeepSeekBot (DeepSeek): what it is and how to allow or block it
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DeepSeekBot is a crawler that identifies itself as DeepSeekBot in server logs. Its robots.txt token is DeepSeekBot.
Facts
- Operator
- DeepSeek
- robots.txt token
DeepSeekBot
- Honors robots.txt?
- Not documented. DeepSeek documents nothing about robots.txt for this agent that we could find; third parties disagree on compliance.
- User-agent example
- Contains
deepseekbot(the operator documents no full example string)
- User agent we logged
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DeepSeekBot/1.0; +https://www.deepseek.com/bot)Most common variant in our own logs, 33 requests, 19 to 25 Oct 2026. Static snapshot, not the live counter below. A logged string is a claim: anyone can send it.
- Official source
- No crawler documentation published by DeepSeek (checked 2026-10-25)
- Compared with the source
What it is used for
Third-party bot directories describe it as collecting data for AI training. DeepSeek itself has not confirmed a purpose, so treat that as a report, not a fact.
What happens if you block it
We cannot say what blocking it changes, because DeepSeek documents nothing about this agent. Directories describe it as a training crawler, so a block may keep your pages out of training data; that is unconfirmed.
DeepSeek publishes no crawler documentation that we could find. The user agent we logged points to a /bot page on deepseek.com, and that page returned a 404 on 2026-10-25. Because anyone can send this user agent, treat the identity of a request as unconfirmed.
Is it really DeepSeekBot?
Anyone can send DeepSeekBot as a user agent, and DeepSeek publishes no IP list or reverse-DNS method that we could find, so a log line cannot prove a request is real. Check whether it fetched /robots.txt and whether the address belongs to the operator's network.
- DeepSeek publishes no crawler documentation that we could find (checked 2026-10-25), so there is no IP list or reverse-DNS method to compare against and the user agent alone cannot show that a request is genuine.
- Paste any user agent from your logs into the user-agent lookup, or follow the scripts in Fake Googlebots and PHP scanners.
How to allow or block DeepSeekBot
Add one of these groups to the robots.txt at the root of your domain. A group that names the bot overrides a general User-agent: * group.
User-agent: DeepSeekBot Allow: /
User-agent: DeepSeekBot Disallow: /
Does your site allow DeepSeekBot today? The checker evaluates your robots.txt for this and every other bot.Check my site
What we see on our own sites
Live counter, last 30 days: no request identifying as DeepSeekBot recorded yet. The counter started after the week below, so it does not cover it. Earlier log snapshot (19 to 25 Oct 2026): 33 requests identified as DeepSeekBot.
Counts come from the websites we operate; they hold no IP addresses or URLs, and a user agent is only a claim. See the bot traffic data and the methodology.
Questions about DeepSeekBot
What is DeepSeekBot?
A crawler that identifies itself as DeepSeekBot in server logs. Third-party bot directories describe it as collecting data for AI training. DeepSeek itself has not confirmed a purpose, so treat that as a report, not a fact.
Is DeepSeekBot safe and legitimate?
DeepSeek publishes no crawler documentation that we could find, so we cannot say what a genuine DeepSeekBot request looks like. A user-agent string is only a claim, and anyone can send it. We found no IP list or reverse-DNS method published by DeepSeek (checked 2026-10-25), so the user agent alone cannot prove a request is real.
Does DeepSeekBot obey robots.txt?
Not documented. DeepSeek documents nothing about robots.txt for this agent that we could find; third parties disagree on compliance.
How do I block DeepSeekBot?
Add a group to the robots.txt at the root of your domain: User-agent: DeepSeekBot followed by Disallow: /. A group that names the bot overrides a general User-agent: * group. DeepSeek documents nothing about robots.txt for this agent, so we cannot promise it is honored.
Will blocking DeepSeekBot hurt my Google rankings or AI visibility?
DeepSeek documents nothing about this agent, so we cannot say what blocking it changes. Directories describe it as a training crawler; that is unconfirmed.
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